Gamma Ray Bursts in the Swift-Fermi Era
arXiv:1301.0840 · doi:10.1007/s11467-013-0282-3
Abstract
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most violent occurrences in the universe. They are powerful explosions, visible to high redshift, and thought to be the signature of black hole birth. They are highly luminous events and provide excellent probes of the distant universe. GRB research has greatly advanced over the past 10 years with the results from Swift, Fermi and an active follow-up community. In this review we survey the interplay between these recent observations and the theoretical models of the prompt GRB emission and the subsequent afterglows.
16 pages and 15 figures. Invited review article to appear in the special issue of Frontiers of Physics on High Energy Astrophysics, eds. B. Zhang and P. Meszaros
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