Comparisons between Cosmological and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Bursts

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Feb 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010head...11.1417b&link_type=abstract

American Astronomical Society, HEAD meeting #11, #14.17; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 41, p.677

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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Gamma-ray Bursts (GRBs) and Terrestrial Gamma-ray Flashes (TGFs) are both relativistic phenomena that produce brief flashes of gamma-rays. While there are observational differences that clearly separate the two phenomena, they appear surprisingly similar considering the vast differences in their origins: probably collapsing massive stars for long GRBs, and either terrestrial lightning or thunderstorm-associated electric fields for TGFs. I will describe the observational similarities and differences, and discuss how such unrelated sources can both produce MeV gamma-rays.

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