Exploring Gamma-Ray Bursts, Their Immediate Environment and Host Galaxies

Lasting anywhere from a few milliseconds to several minutes, GRBs shine hundreds of times brighter than a typical supernova, making them briefly the brightest source of cosmic gamma-ray photons in the observable Universe. This thesis focuses on 3 different aspects of GRBs: (1) The radiative mechanis...

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Main Author: Friis, Mette
Format: Report
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Published: arXiv 2015
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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE
FOS Physical sciences
Iceland
Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1512.03205
https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03205
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spelling ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.1512.03205 2023-05-15T16:48:58+02:00 Exploring Gamma-Ray Bursts, Their Immediate Environment and Host Galaxies Friis, Mette 2015 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1512.03205 https://arxiv.org/abs/1512.03205 unknown arXiv arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/ High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena astro-ph.HE FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2015 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1512.03205 2022-04-01T11:34:18Z Lasting anywhere from a few milliseconds to several minutes, GRBs shine hundreds of times brighter than a typical supernova, making them briefly the brightest source of cosmic gamma-ray photons in the observable Universe. This thesis focuses on 3 different aspects of GRBs: (1) The radiative mechanism of GRBs and their afterglows, i.e. the occurrence of thermal emission and the physical parameters we can determine through this emission. (2) Their host galaxies, using results from observations of GRB 121024A as a case study. (3) How they can be used to answer some of the larger astrophysical questions, more specifically in this case, to study interstellar dust and grey extinction. : PhD dissertation, University of Iceland, Reykjav\'ik, October 2015 Report Iceland DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology)
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Exploring Gamma-Ray Bursts, Their Immediate Environment and Host Galaxies
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description Lasting anywhere from a few milliseconds to several minutes, GRBs shine hundreds of times brighter than a typical supernova, making them briefly the brightest source of cosmic gamma-ray photons in the observable Universe. This thesis focuses on 3 different aspects of GRBs: (1) The radiative mechanism of GRBs and their afterglows, i.e. the occurrence of thermal emission and the physical parameters we can determine through this emission. (2) Their host galaxies, using results from observations of GRB 121024A as a case study. (3) How they can be used to answer some of the larger astrophysical questions, more specifically in this case, to study interstellar dust and grey extinction. : PhD dissertation, University of Iceland, Reykjav\'ik, October 2015
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title Exploring Gamma-Ray Bursts, Their Immediate Environment and Host Galaxies
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title_full Exploring Gamma-Ray Bursts, Their Immediate Environment and Host Galaxies
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title_full_unstemmed Exploring Gamma-Ray Bursts, Their Immediate Environment and Host Galaxies
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