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The landscape of relativistic stellar explosions

Record Type:	Electronic resources : Monograph/item
Title/Author:	The landscape of relativistic stellar explosionsby Anna Y. Q. Ho.
Author:	Ho, Anna Y. Q.
Published:	Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022.
Description:	xxi, 307 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm.
Notes:	"Doctoral thesis accepted by California Institute of Technology, in USA."
Contained By:	Springer Nature eBook
Subject:	Stars.
Online resource:	https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-15367-9
ISBN:	9783031153679$q(electronic bk.)

The landscape of relativistic stellar explosions
Ho, Anna Y. Q.

The landscape of relativistic stellar explosions[electronic resource] /by Anna Y. Q. Ho. - Cham :Springer International Publishing :2022. - xxi, 307 p. :ill., digital ;24 cm. - Springer theses,2190-5061. - Springer theses..

"Doctoral thesis accepted by California Institute of Technology, in USA."

This thesis reports the discovery of relativistic stellar explosions outside of the gamma ray band, using optical time domain surveys. It is well known that some massive stars end their lives with the formation of a compact object (a neutron star or black hole) that launches a relativistic jet detectable from earth as a burst of gamma rays. It has long been suspected, however, that gamma ray bursts are only the tip of the iceberg in a broad landscape of relativistic explosions, and so the results presented in this thesis represent a major breakthrough. Highlights of this thesis include: characterization of the first major new class of relativistic explosions in a decade; the discovery of abrupt end-of-life mass-loss in a surprisingly diverse range of stars; and the routine discovery of afterglow emission and several events that may represent baryonically dirty jets or jets viewed slightly off axis. These discoveries necessitated the solution of difficult technical challenges such as the identification of rare and fleeting "needles" in a vast haystack of time-varying phenomena in the night sky, and responding to discoveries within hours to obtain data across the electromagnetic spectrum from X-rays to radio wavelengths.

ISBN: 9783031153679$q(electronic bk.)

Standard No.: 10.1007/978-3-031-15367-9doiSubjects--Topical Terms:

266972
Stars.

LC Class. No.: QB801

Dewey Class. No.: 523.8

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