Progentiors of GRBs: Massive Stars

Largest Explosions in the Universe May Come from the Death of Massive Stars

In a scientific paper to appear in Nature on 30 September 1999, our team argues that at least some gamma-ray bursts, some of the brightest explosions in the Universe, originate from the death of massive stars. Please read the Caltech Press Release.
Note: This is EMBARGOED to the general press until 29 September 1999.

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	Click HERE for the press release on the paper: "The unusual afterglow of the gamma-ray burst of 26 March 1998 as evidence for a supernova connection" J. S. Bloom, S. R. Kulkarni, S. G. Djorgovski, A. C. Eichelberger, P. Côté, J. P. Blakeslee, S. C. Odewahn, F. A. Harrison, D. A. Frail, A. V. Filippenko, D. C. Leonard, A. G. Riess, H. Spinrad, D. Stern, A. Bunker, A. Dey, B. Grossan, S. Perlmutter, R. A. Knop, I. M. Hook, M. Feroci
	Illustrations of a massive star explosion, pictures of the fading source from the Keck 10-meter telescope, and a schematic diagram of what was detected can be found HERE.
	See an animated gif movie of the fading optical source HERE
	Robert Tindol, Caltech Media Relations, +1-626-395-3631 (tindol@caltech.edu) Joshua S. Bloom, Caltech Astronomy, +1-626-695-1243 (jsb@astro.caltech.edu). Prof. Shrinivas R. Kulkarni, Caltech Astronomy, +1-626-395-4010 (srk@astro.caltech.edu). Prof. S. George Djorgovski, Caltech Astronomy, +1-626-395-4415 (george@astro.caltech.edu). Andrew Perala, W.M. Keck Observatory, +1-808-885-7887 (aperala@keck.hawaii.edu)
	Nature magazine. A Brief History of GRBs (from 1960-1997) Scientific American Article on GRB 990123 Caltech Press Release on GRB 971214 The Keck Telescopes Josh Bloom's homepage Prof. S. George Djorgovski's GRB page

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