Gamma Ray Bursts Session

Wednesday, 18 December 1996, 4:15-6:15 pm

Preliminary Program

Chairs: Ed Fenimore (LANL) and Kevin Hurley (Berkeley)

If you have any queries or comments on the program please email: Ed Fenimore, efenimore@lanl.gov or Kevin Hurley, khurley@sunspot.ssl.berkeley.edu

Speakers

4:15 Edison Liang (Rice University): Physical Model of Gamma-Ray Burst Spectral Evolution
4:35 Rob Preece (University of Alabama, Huntsville): Observations and Implications of X-Ray Excesses in GRBs
4:45 Tsvi Piran (Hebrew University): Physical Conditions in GRBs
5:05 Max Ruffert (Max-Planck Institute): Merging Neutron Stars as Central Engines for GRBs
5:15 K.S. Cheng (University of Hong Kong): Conversion of Neutron Stars to Strange Stars as a Possible Mechanism for GRBs
5:25 Hara Papathanassiou (Penn State): Spectral Properties of "Internal" and "External" Shock Models for GRBs
5:35 Nir Shaviv (Cal Tech) Gamma-Ray Bursts in Dense Stellar Environments - a Solution to the Riddle?
5:45 Ed Fenimore (Los Alamos National Lab): Expanding Relativistic Shells and Limitations on Temporal Variations in GRBs
5:55 Chuck Dermer (Naval Research Lab): Observational Implications of GRBs Occurring in Dense Stellar Clusters
6:05 Dieter Hartmann (Clemson University): What Does it Take to Solve the GRB Mystery?

Posters

Mechanisms:

• Berezinsky, Blasi, Hnatyh (Laboratori Nazionali Gran Sasso): Gamma Ray Bursts from SNIa
  
• Andrew Heckler (Ohio State): Searching for Primordial Black Holes with Gamma Ray Observations
  
• Panaitescu (Penn State), Wen (MIT), Laguna, Meszaros (Penn State): Numerical Calculations of External Shock Dynamics and Light Curves in GRB
  
• Meszaros (Penn State), Rees (Cambridge): Poynting Jets from Black Holes and Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts
  
• Lee, Kluzniak (Wisconsin): SPH Simulations of Coalescing Neutron-Star Black_hole Binaries
  
• Blackman (Cambridge), Yi (Princeton): Constraints on Pulsar Gamma-Ray Burst Models and the Role of Beamed Precessing Jets
  
• Mathews, Wilson (Notre Dame): Binary Neutron Star Compression and Heating as a Source for GRBs
  

Spectral:

• Crider, Liang (Rice): Evidence for Saturated Synchrotron Self Absorption Compton Emission in GRBs
  
• Bulik (U of Chicago), Bezchastnov (Ioffe Tech Institute): Photon Splitting in Strongly Magnetized Plasma
  
• Kachelrie, Wilke, Wunner (Ruhr University at Bochum): Photon Splitting above the Pair Creation Threshold
  
• Band (UCSD): Statistical Implications of BATSE and Ginga Line Detections and Non-Detections
  
• Brainerd (Marshall Space Flight Center): Physical Constraints on Extra galactic GRB Sources from the Observed Characteristics
  
• Papathanassiou, Meszaros (Penn State): Multiwavelenght spectra from internal shocks in unsteady wind models of GRBs
  
• Meszaros (Penn State), Rees (Cambridge): Optical and Long Wavelength Afterglow from Gamma-Ray Bursts Spatial Distributions
  

Spatial Distributions:

• Bisnovatyi-Kogan (Space Research Institute, Moscow): Stochastic Errors and the form of the Log N Log S curve
  
• Kurt, Komberg, Tihomorova, Kompaneets (Astro Space Center, Moscow): Spatial Characteristics of GRBs and the Local Arm
  
• Piran (Hebrew University), Singh (UCSB): Spherical Harmonic Expansion of GRB Distributions: Probing the Large Scale Structure?
  
• Tegmark (Institute for Advanced Study): The Spatial Distribution of GRBs and what it tells us
  
• Gorosabel, Castro-Tirado (ESA): Statistical Study of the Content of Small GRB Error boxes
  
• Reichart (U. Chicago), Meszaros (Penn State): Constraints on the Redshift and Luminosity Distributions of Gamma Ray Bursts in an Einstein-de Sitter Universe
  
• Meszaros (Charles U), Horvath, (Eotvos U & Penn State), Bagoly (Eotvos U): Cosmological Signature Analyses of GRB Data
  

Counterparts:

• Hurley, Blanco, Lidman, Glazebrook (UC Berkeley): Optical/Near-Infrared Observations of GRO J1644-28
  
• Komberg, Kompaneets (Astro Space Center, Moscow): On a Possibility for Revealing a Correlation Between GRB and old Closest Neutron Stars in the Radio Band
  
• Klose, Eisloeffel (Thueringer Landessternwarte Tautenburg): NIR-Imaging of GRB Error Boxes
  
• Park (Lawrence Livermore National Lab) Ables, Barthelmy, Band, Bionta, Butterworth, Cline, Ferguson, Gehrels, Hartmann, Kouveliotou, Ott, Parker, Willimas, Wurtz : Simultaneous Search for GRB Optical Counterparts
  
• Hurley, Murakami, Li, Smette, Kouveliotou, Fishman, Laros, Cline, Shibata, Ogasaka, Pedersen, Vrba, Luginbuhl, Palmer, Ricker, Kawai, Matsuoka, Yoshida, Yamauchi, Hishimure, Yoshida (Berkeley): Two Possible Soft X-Ray Counterparts to Gamma-Ray Burst Sources
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• Ricker (MIT): Early Results on GRBs from the International HETE Mission
  
• Matz (Northwestern University): Search for pre- and post-burst Emission from GRB sources
  
• Connors, McConnell, Ryan (UNH), Kippen (UAH), Pelaez,Winkler (SSD) Greiner, Schonfelder, Varendorff, Collmar (MPE), Hermsen, Kuiper (SRON): The Distribution of GRBs at MeV Energies Measured by COMPTEL
  
• Lund (Danish Space Research Institute), Brandt (Los Alamos), Castro-Tirado (LAEFF-INTA): Precise Positions of Gamma-ray Bursts
  
• Cole, Vanden Berk, Severson, Miller, Quashnock, Nichol, Lamb, Hurley, Blanco, Lidman, Glazebrook (U. Chicago) Optical/Near-Infrared Observations of GRO J1744-28
  
• Hurley, Hartmann, Kouveliotou, Meegan, Fishman (Berkeley) Are Gamma-ray Bursts Associated with Abell Clusters?
  
• Weber, Radak (Maryland) Correlation of GRBs with Gravitational-Radiation Antenna Pulses
  

Instrumentation:

• Cline et al. (GSFC): Gamma-ray Burst Polarimeter Project
  

Miscellaneous:

• Lee (Stanford) Search for Periodic and Quasi-Periodic Behaviour in GRBs
  
• Cline, Sanders, Sanders (UCLA) Analysis of the Shortest BATSE Events
  
• Norris, Bonnell, Nemiroff, Scargle (GSFC), Relative Time Dilation Between Hard and Soft GRBs