Gamma Ray Bursts

Watch the entire series here: https://youtube.com/playlist?list=PLyu4Fovbph6fl0UGSo3aLqHCmBIYkiqzq

This is part of my complete intro Astronomy class that I taught at Willam Paterson University and CUNY Hunter. If you want to watch all the videos in the correct order, please visit my website at http://www.jasonkendall.com

Gamma-ray bursts are the sources of kilonovae, which are among the most interesting of the Big Bada Booms. This even leads to the most important discovery of the 21st century!

Here are some WOOPS items:

1) At about 35:10, the screen blanks out. iMovie didn't like it, and I was too lazy to redo, as I had to whip these out for a class rather quickly. The movie I am talking about is here: https://youtu.be/7uN1AjMui5k

Supplement the videos with "OpenStax Astronomy"
https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/23-thinking-ahead
23: The Death of Stars

https://openstax.org/books/astronomy/pages/24-thinking-ahead
24: Black Holes and Curved Spacetime

Gamma Ray Bursts are a major mystery that arose from verification of the Nuclear Test Ban Treaty of 1963, and led to major discoveries about where most of the heavy elements of the universe come from.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamma-ray_burst
Gamma-ray burst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kilonova
Kilonova

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BeppoSAX
BeppoSAX

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Compton_Gamma_Ray_Observatory
Compton Gamma Ray Observatory

https://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/about_swift/
Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pair-instability_supernova
Pair-instability supernova

https://gammaray.nsstc.nasa.gov/batse/grb/skymap/
2704 Gamma-Ray Bursts

https://www.nasa.gov/feature/goddard/nasas-swift-spots-its-thousandth-gamma-ray-burst
NASA's Swift Spots its Thousandth Gamma-ray Burst

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/File:GRB_BATSE_12lightcurves.png
GRB BATSE 12 light curves

https://gammaray.nsstc.nasa.gov/batse/grb/lightcurve/
BATSE Gamma Ray Burst Light Curves

https://gammaray.nsstc.nasa.gov/batse/grb/duration/
BATSE GRB Durations

https://www.nasa.gov/topics/universe/features/gamma-ray-engines.html
Breakthrough Study Confirms Cause of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/GRB_080319B
GRB 080319B

http://hubblesite.org/image/2544/news/32-gamma-ray-bursts
Hubble sees the Host Galaxies of Gamma-ray Bursts

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wolf-Rayet_star
Wolf-Rayet star

https://www.nasa.gov/centers/goddard/news/topstory/2003/0618rosettaburst.html
"ROSETTA STONE" FOUND TO DECODE THE MYSTERY OF GAMMA RAY BURSTS

https://svs.gsfc.nasa.gov/11545
The Gamma-ray Sky

https://arxiv.org/pdf/1804.10130.pdf
SMOKE AND MIRRORS: SIGNAL-TO-NOISE AND TIME-REVERSED STRUCTURES IN GAMMA-RAY BURST PULSE LIGHT CURVES, Jon Hakkila

https://www.livescience.com/63415-time-reversed-structures-gamma-ray-bursts.html
Gamma-Rays Spewed As a Black Hole Forms Might 'Reverse Time'

https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-10/cifs-dns101217.php
Discovered! Neutron star collision seen for the first time

https://www.eso.org/public/videos/eso1733b/
Neutron star merger animation ending with kilonova explosion

Видео Gamma Ray Bursts канала Jason Kendall