Session 38. GRBs: A Mystery and a Tool

Display, Tuesday, June 5, 2001, 10:00am-6:30pm, Exhibit Hall

38.01 On the Progenitors of Collapsars

S. E. Woosley, A. Heger (Astronomy and Astrophysics Department, UCSC)

38.02 The difficulty in using orphan afterglows to measure gamma-ray burst beaming

K. Griest, N. Dalal, J. Pruet (UCSD)

38.03 Relativistic Jets and Collapsars

W. Zhang, S.E. Woosley (UCO/Lick, UC Santa Cruz)

38.04 GRBs as a Means of Tracing the Metallicity History of the Universe

D. Q. Lamb (U. Chicago), D. E. Reichart (Caltech)

38.05 Realtime GRB Followup with LOTIS/Super-LOTIS/LITE

H.S. Park, E. Ables, R.A. Porrata, K. Ziock (LLNL), G.G. Williams, M. Bradshaw (Steward Observatory), S.D. Barthelmy, T. Cline, N. Gehrels (LLNL/GSFC), K. Hurley (Univ. of California, Berkeley), D. Hartmann (Clemson University), R. Nemiroff, W. Pereira, D. Perez (Michigan Technological University)

38.06 Multiwavelength Follow-Up Observations of Four Short-Duration, Hard-Spectrum Gamma-Ray Bursts

K. Hurley (UC Berkeley), T. Cline (NASA - GSFC), E. Mazets, S. Golenetskii (Ioffe Institute), N. Masetti (ITESRE), H.-S. Park (LLNL), A. Henden (USNO), A. Castro-Tirado (LAEFF), E. Berger (Caltech OVRO), D. Frail (NRAO), P. Price (Caltech), P. Vreeswijk (U. Amsterdam)

38.07 Detection of the Host Galaxy of GRB980703 at Radio Wavelengths - Implications for the Star Formation Rate and Progenitor Models

D. A. Frail (NRAO), E. Berger (Caltech), S. R. Kulkarni (Caltech)

38.08 Considerations for a Next Generation GRB Observatory

G.J. Fishman (NASA-MSFC)