2008-04-24 20:00:00 - 2008-04-24 00:00:00
Probing the Early Universe with Extremely Energetic Gamma-Ray Bursts
Thursday, April 24, 8 p.m.
Dr. Dieter Hartmann, Clemson University
Dr. Dieter Hartmann recounts the history of Gamma Ray Burst studies, from the early confusion following the phenomenon’s discovery in the late ’60s to the contributions of NASA’s Compton Gammy Ray Observatory in the early 1990s and the Italian-Dutch BeppoSAX satellite in 1997 that helped link these transients to the final, violent moments of exploding, massive stars and the merging of exotic binary systems of compact stars and black holes. Hartmann explains how, with new data from NASA’s Swift satellite, astronomers can use these explosive events to study galaxy formation in the early Universe. Free and open to the public. A free public lecture sponsored by the Department of Astronomy at Case Western Reserve University, The Cleveland Museum of Natural History and The Cleveland Astronomical Society.
Cleveland Museum of Natural History1 Wade Oval Drive Cleveland, Ohio
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