Title: Gamma ray bursts : dying cries from the deep universe
Authors: Kulkarni, S. R. 1956-; Harvard-Smithsonian Center for Astrophysics.
Year: 1997
Subjects: Gamma ray bursts.
Abstract: Lecture on the sources of gamma-rays, the bursters which appear to be isotropic and yet inhomogeneously distributed around us, thus requiring them to be either local to our Galaxy or at cosmological distances. The speaker presents evidence that decisively demonstrates that at least one burster is located at a cosmological distance and observations of several including the measurement of their size and super-luminal expansion and deceleration. The cause or origin of the bursts are unknown but widely speculated to be the death of some kind of stars.