Towards Understanding Gamma-Ray Bursts

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1995-07-30

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9507114v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

34 pages, uuencoded also available at ftp://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il or at http://shemesh.fiz.huji.ac.il/grb_uns.ps to appear in

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$\gamma$-ray bursts (GRBs) have puzzled astronomers since their accidental discovery in the sixties. The BATSE detector on COMPTON-GRO satellite has been detecting GRBs for the last four years at a rate of one burst per day. Its findings has revolutionized our ideas about the nature of these objects. In this lecture I show that the simplest, most conventional and practically inevitable, interpretation of the observations is that GRBs form during the conversion of the kinetic energy of ultra-relativistic particles to radiation. The inner ``engine" that accelerates these particles is well hidden from direct observations and its origin might remain mysterious for a long time.

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