Gamma-ray bursts as cosmological probes

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Oct 2005

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2005aabb.book..167t&link_type=abstract

In: Advances in astronomy. Editor: J. M. T. Thompson. Royal Society Series on Advances in Science, Vol. 1. London: Imperial Coll

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Gamma-Ray Bursts, Cosmology

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Gamma-ray bursts, are immensely bright and therefore have great potential as probes of the universe. They reside in small, distant galaxies, and thus provide a route to investigating the properties of such galaxies, which are themselves too faint for detailed study by more direct means. The use of GRBs as cosmic beacons is still in its infancy, but will become much more important in the future as we find many more bursts at very great distances. Ultimately we hope GRBs will help us investigate the star formation rate, and the state of intergalactic matter through the history of the universe. They may even help us determine the large scale geometry of the universe and the microscopic structure of space-time.

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