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A New Class of Luminous Transients and A First Census of Their Massive Stellar Progenitors
Todd A. Thompson, Jose L. Prieto, K. Z. Stanek +3
The progenitors of SN 2008S and the 2008 transient in NGC300 were dust-enshrouded, with extremely red mid-infrared (MIR) colors and relatively low luminosities. The transients were…
Gamma Ray Burst Central Engines
Todd A. Thompson
I review aspects of the theory of long-duration gamma-ray burst (GRB) central engines. I focus on the requirements of any model; these include the angular momentum of the progenito…
Gravitational Instability in Radiation Pressure Dominated Backgrounds
Todd A. Thompson
I consider the physics of gravitational instabilities in the presence of dynamically important radiation pressure and gray radiative diffusion, governed by a constant opacity, kapp…
Short Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts with Extended Emission from Proto-Magnetar Spin-Down
B. D. Metzger, E. Quataert, Todd A. Thompson
Evidence is growing for a class of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) characterized by an initial ~0.1-1 s spike of hard radiation followed, after a ~3-10 s lull in emission, by a softer peri…
On the Conditions for Neutron-Rich Gamma-Ray Burst Outflows
Brian D. Metzger, Todd A. Thompson, Eliot Quataert
We calculate the structure and neutron content of neutrino-heated MHD winds driven from the surface of newly-formed magnetars (``proto-magnetars'') and from the midplane of hyper-a…
The Relationship Between Molecular Gas Tracers and Kennicutt-Schmidt Laws
Mark R. Krumholz, Todd A. Thompson
We provide a model for how Kennicutt-Schmidt (KS) laws, which describe the correlation between star formation rate and gas surface or volume density, depend on the molecular line c…