Status of Models for Gamma Ray Bursts

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Mar 2001

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PARTICLE PHYSICS AND THE UNIVERSE. Proceedings of Nobel Symposium 109. Held 20-25 August 1998 in Haga Slott, Enköping, Sweden. E

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The nature of gamma-ray bursts, an enigma for more than 25 years, is now coming into focus. They involve extraordinary power outputs, and highly relativistic dynamics. The "trigger" is probably a binary merger or collapse involving stellar-mass compact objects. The most plausible progenitors, ranging from NS-NS mergers to various hypernova-like scenarios, eventually lead to the formation of a black hole with a debris torus around it, the extractable energy being up to 1054 ergs. Magnetic fields may exceed 1015 G. Details of the afterglow may be easier to understand than the initial trigger. Bursts at very high redshift can be astronomically-important as probes of the distant universe.

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