Implications of Recent Observational Discoveries for the Nature and Origin of Gamma-Ray Bursts

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2000-05-01

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0005028v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

25 pages, latex, 24 postscript figures, to be published in a special memorial volume of Physics Reports in honor of David Schr

Scientific paper

10.1016/S0370-1573(00)00050-8

The discoveries that GRBs have X-ray, optical and radio afterglows have connected the study of GRBs to the rest of astronomy, and revolutionized the field. In this review, I discuss the implications that the observation of these afterglows have for burst energies and luminosities, and for models of the bursts and their afterglows. I describe recent evidence linking the long, softer, smoother GRBs detected by BeppoSAX and core collapse supernovae. Finally, I summarize recent work showing that, if these GRBs are due to the collapse of massive stars, they may provide a powerful probe of the very high redshift universe.

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