Sentences with phrase «duration gamma ray burst»

Type Ic supernovae, the explosions after the core collapse of massive stars that have previously lost their hydrogen and helium envelopes, are particularly interesting because of their link with long - duration gamma ray bursts.

Not exact matches

This event also provides the strongest evidence yet that short duration gamma - ray bursts are caused by mergers of neutron stars.

If one of the jets were pointed directly toward Earth, we would have seen a short - duration gamma - ray burst, like many seen before, the scientists said.

«Many astronomers, including our group, have already provided a great deal of evidence that long - duration gamma - ray bursts (those lasting more than two seconds) are produced by the collapse of extremely massive stars.

It packed as much energy in its mere 5 - millisecond duration as the sun puts out in a month, making it by far the strongest, quickest signal radio astronomers have observed, although it wasn't nearly as powerful as the elusive gamma ray bursts that populate the universe.

Besides confirming theories about the source of some short - duration gamma - ray bursts and the formation mechanism of many of the heavy elements including platinum, lead, gold, and rare earth elements, the gravitational waves enabled us to get a distance to the galaxy independent of the usual step - by - step procedure called the «distance scale ladder».

Located around 11 to 12 and a half billion light - years away, GRB 000131 was a relatively bright and long - duration gamma - ray burst (more).

«There are also two other classes of extreme events — long duration gamma - ray bursts and superluminous supernovae — that frequently occur in dwarf galaxies, as well.