Bulletin of the American Physical Society
75th Annual Meeting of the Southeastern Section of APS
Volume 53, Number 13
Thursday–Saturday, October 30–November 1 2008; Raleigh, North Carolina
Session DB: Forefront Astrophysics |
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Chair: Gail McLaughlin, North Carolina State University Room: Holiday Inn Brownstone Washington |
Thursday, October 30, 2008 1:30PM - 2:00PM |
DB.00001: Gamma-Ray Bursts and their jets Invited Speaker: Gamma-Ray Bursts are the brightest explosions in the present universe. We observe them as brief flashes of high-energy photons appearing randomly in the sky, followed by a tail of longer wavelengths emission lasting several months. They are associated to the final evolutionary stages of massive stars, and are though to be powered by the formation of a black hole of several solar masses. I will review their properties and discuss the results of numerical simulations of their outflows, the role of magnetic fields and the nature of their spectral evolution. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:00PM - 2:30PM |
DB.00002: The Skynet Robotic Telescope Network Invited Speaker: Over it's first three years of operation, the Skynet Robotic Telescope Network has taken over 1 million images for approximately 20,000 users. To date the network consists of telescopes in Chile, North Carolina, Italy, Colorado, and California. I will describe Skynet and demo one of its telescopes. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, October 30, 2008 2:30PM - 3:00PM |
DB.00003: GRB Studies with GLAST Invited Speaker: The Gamma Ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST), launched on June 11, 2008, is NASA's most recent observatory dedicated to gamma ray astronomy. GLAST comprises two science instruments, the Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM). The LAT is a pair telescope with unprecedented sensitivity on the energy range from 30 MeV to $>$100 GeV. GBM is an array of 14 scintillation detectors that will observe GRBs in the 8 keV to 30 MeV energy band. I will describe the GLAST capabilities for GRB studies and show some early results. [Preview Abstract] |
Thursday, October 30, 2008 3:00PM - 3:30PM |
DB.00004: The Supernova-GRB Connection Invited Speaker: I will discuss the relation between supernovae and gamma-ray bursts, with an emphasis on nearby events. [Preview Abstract] |
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