A planet having protective ozone within the collimated beam of a Gamma Ray Burst (GRB) may suffer ozone depletion, potentially causing a mass extinction event to existing life on a planet's surface and oceans. We model the dangers of long GRBs to planets in the Milky Way and utilize a ...
What is a Gamma Ray Burst? What is a Gamma-Ray Burst? Gamma-Ray Bursts were first detected during the Cold War when the United States sent up a series of spy satellites to monitor the Russians and make sure they were adhering to the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963. When a nuclear wea...
A gamma-ray burst, the most powerful kind of explosion known in the universe, may have triggered a mass extinction on Earth within the past billion years, researchers say. These deadly outbursts could help explain the so-calledFermi paradox, the seeming contradiction between the high chance of...
(Jull et al., 2014). A number of possible explanations have been proposed to explain this event, including asolar protonevent,coronal mass ejection,gamma ray burst, or cometary impact (Miyake et al., 2012, 2017;Usokin et al., 2013;Thomas et al., 2013;Jull et al., 2014;Büntgen ...
ray and UVOIR counterparts. The latter requires an additional component, which we model using simulated kilonova light curves28with wind ejecta massMwin the range (0.01–0.1)M⊙, and dynamical ejecta massMd ≈ (0.01–0.03)M⊙(M⊙, mass of the Sun). The ejecta velocity and kilonova bolo...
What would happen to Earth if it were hit by a gamma-ray burst? Gamma-ray expert Q&A Additional resources Bibliography Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are the most powerful and violent explosions in the known universe. These brief flashes of high-energy light result from some of the universe...
gamma-ray burst: generaldustextinctioninfrared: galaxiessubmillimeter: galaxiesgalaxies: star formationLong-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are indisputably related to star formation, and their vast luminosity in gamma rays pin-points regions of star formation independent of galaxy mass, out to the ...
Long-duration gamma-ray bursts(LGRBs) are believed to be linked with the star formation. We adopt a galactic evolution model, in which the star formation process inside the virialized dark halo at given redshift can be achieved. In this paper, the gamma-ray burst(GRB) host galaxies are ...
The stellar ages and masses of short gamma-ray burst host galaxies: investigating the progenitor delay time distribution and the role of mass and star formation in the short gamma-ray burst rate. Astrophys. J. 725, 1202–1214 (2010). Article ADS Google Scholar Fong, W., Berger, E., ...
R. A search for neutron star-black hole binary mergers in the short gamma-ray burst population. Astrophys. J. 895, 58 (2020). Article ADS Google Scholar Zafar, T. et al. VLT/X-shooter GRBs: individual extinction curves of star-forming regions. Mon. Not. R. Astron. Soc. 479, ...