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Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of Cosmology

Astrophysics 2015-06-24 v1

Abstract

We show that, if the long GRBs are produced by the collapse of massive stars, GRBs and their afterglows may provide a powerful probe of cosmology and the early universe.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0109037,
  title  = {Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of Cosmology},
  author = {Donald Q. Lamb and Daniel E. Reichart},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0109037},
  year   = {2015}
}

Comments

To appear in Procs. of the 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, 6 pages, 5 figures, LaTeX