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Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of Cosmology

Astrophysics 2009-11-07 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/0210434,
  title  = {Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of Cosmology},
  author = {Donald Q. Lamb},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0210434},
  year   = {2009}
}

Comments

5 pages, 7 figures, to appear in AIP proc. "Gamma-Ray Burst and Afterglow Astronomy 2001" Woods Hole, Massachusetts