Fundamental physics from black holes, neutron stars and gamma-ray bursts

Abstract

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and supernovae (SNe) bring new perspectives to the study of neutron stars and white dwarfs, as well as opening new branches of theoretical physics and astrophysics.

83 pages, 47 figures, to appear in the Proceedings of the Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity

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• Enhancement of Real Time EPICS IOC PV Management for Data Archiving System
• An optical supernova associated with the X-ray flash XRF 060218
• No supernovae associated with two long-duration gamma ray bursts
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• Different progenitors of short hard gamma-ray bursts
• Swift observations of GRB 060614: an anomalous burst with a well behaved afterglow
• On the consistency of the peculiar GRBs 060218 and 060614 with the Ep,i - Eiso correlation
• A general scheme for modeling gamma-ray burst prompt emission
• The X-ray afterglow of the short gamma ray burst 050724
• The optical afterglows and host galaxies of three short/hard gamma-ray bursts
• SGRs and AXPs as rotation powered massive white dwarfs
• The relativistic Feynman-Metropolis-Teller theory for white-dwarfs in general relativity
• Thermalization of a nonequilibrium electron-positron-photon plasma
• GRB060614: a "fake" short GRB from a merging binary system
• The short GRB070707 afterglow and its very faint host galaxy
• Thermalization of the mildly relativistic plasma
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• Gravitational energy in stationary spacetimes
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• Induced Gravitational Collapse, Binary-Driven Hypernovae, Long Gramma-ray Bursts and Their Connection with Short Gamma-ray Bursts
• Induced gravitational collapse at extreme cosmological distances: the case of GRB 090423
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