Forged in Fire: How Gamma-Ray Bursts Could Create the Universe’s Heaviest Elements
[#MultiMessenger Astrophysics] The very first colloquium of the #astrophysics Center for Multimessenger Studies in Europe (#ACME) is being held this week in Toulouse. It brings together numerous specialists in #GRB, #kilonovae, compact #binaries and more. These are the main transient and periodic sources of gravitational waves that travel through our #Universe, and which numerous experimental devices are attempting to intercept - from both ground and space.
More info: https://acme-grav-waves.sciencesconf.org/
[End of mission for #Integral] At the time of its launch (in 2002), it was the most advanced #gamma-ray observatory and the first space observatory capable of simultaneously viewing celestial objects in the gamma, X-ray and visible domains.
Integral has transformed our understanding of the high-energy #Universe. Its observations have made it possible to identify the sources of the so-called “long” and “short” gamma-ray bursts (#GRB) : the collapse of stars into supernovae, on the one hand, and the collisions of black holes and neutron stars, on the other. Info+ : https://www.esa.int/Science_Exploration/Space_Science/Integral/Mission_accomplished_for_Integral_ESA_s_gamma-ray_telescope
IRAP's scientific and technical staff have contributed to the success of this mission: both in the realization of the #instruments and in the analysis of the observation data. On February 28, 2025, a long and beautiful page of our space adventure turns ...
[Une bouffée de rayons #gamma pour #TAROT] Le 29 janvier dernier, le réseau de #télescopes TAROT opéré par l'IRAP a effectué, depuis le Chili et la France, le suivi d'un #SursautGamma émis lors de l'explosion d'une #étoile distante de 11 milliards d'années lumière.
L'alerte avait été lancée quelques secondes auparavant par le télescope spatial #Swift. Les télescopes TAROT ont suivi le sursaut gamma durant trois heures. Le télescope de 1 mètre du #PicduMidi a pris le relais, les jours suivants ...
L'épopée en image : https://www.irap.omp.eu/2025/02/le-sursaut-gamma-du-29-janvier-2025-observe-par-les-telescopes-tarot/
[Multi-messenger #Astronomy] The first-ever #ACME (Astrophysics Centre for Multi-messenger studies in Europe) workshop will be held in Toulouse, France, from April 7 to 11. It will be dedicated to the detection, monitoring and analysis of #GravitationalWaves and transient events (#GRB, #kilonovae, compact binaries, etc).
The deadline for abstract submission is January 24, 2025.
Registration is still open ...
[#Astronomie multi-messagers] Le tout premier atelier #ACME (Astrophysics Centre for Multi-messenger studies in Europe) se tiendra à Toulouse, du 7 au 11 avril prochains. Il sera dédié à la détection, au suivi et à l'analyse des #OndesGravitationnelles et des événements transitoires (#SursautsGamma, #kilonovae, binaires compacts, etc).
La date limite de soumision des abstracts a été fixée au 24 janvier 2025.
Les inscriptions sont encore ouvertes ...
Probably the same reason behind Fast GRB.
Most Powerful Explosion Humanity Has Ever Seen Hints at Dark Matter Particles - YouTube
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LvtnKtmyULk
[#GRB: detection and follow-up] On June 22, the #SVOM mission was launched. Since September 7, the #COLIBRI ground-based telescope has been tracking #flashes of light detected by the #ECLAIRs space telescope.
COLIBRI is a French-designed #robotic telescope installed at the San Pedro Mártir National Astronomical Observatory in #Mexico.
First images: https://www.irap.omp.eu/en/2024/09/first-light-for-colibri-an-outstandingly-fast-ground-based-telescope/
Catching The BOAT: Gamma-Ray Bursts and The Brightest of All Time https://hackaday.com/2024/09/18/catching-the-boat-gamma-ray-bursts-and-the-brightest-of-all-time/ #currentevents #scintillator #neutronstar #originalart #ionization #astronomy #hypernova #satellite #supernova #featured #gammaray #science #grb
Catching The BOAT: Gamma-Ray Bursts and The Brightest of All Time - Down here at the bottom of our ocean of air, it’s easy to get complacent about the... - https://hackaday.com/2024/09/18/catching-the-boat-gamma-ray-bursts-and-the-brightest-of-all-time/ #currentevents #scintillator #originalart #neutronstar #ionization #astronomy #hypernova #satellite #supernova #featured #gammaray #science #grb
[#SVOM: H-18 
] This Saturday, the Franco-Chinese SVOM mission will launch from the Xichang base towards the Earth's orbit.
Four instruments (including two French ones) will operate from space, in conjunction with #telecopes on the ground. Objective: to detect the #GRB emitted during the collapse of massive stars or the fusion of #neutron stars, then locate the sources with precision, and finally follow these events in other wavelength domains (X, visible, IR).
https://lejournal.cnrs.fr/articles/un-satellite-a-laffut-des-sursauts-de-lunivers
[#SVOM: D-8] The countdown is on: the #SVOM mission will launch on June 22 from the Xichang base, carrying the French #telescopes ECLAIRs and MXT, designed to detect and track #GRB.
Discover, in this @cnes video, how these jewels of technology will operate from space, transmit real-time #alerts to ground-based telescopes, follow up on alerts ... and contribute to a better understanding of emitting sources: those "neutron star mergers that shake space-time".
So Leute, es wird festlich. Franzi erzählt in unserer Sonder-Weihnachtsfolge vom hellsten Licht des Universums.
Und nein: Es hat überhaupt gar nichts mit dem Stern von Betlehem zu tun.
https://astrogeo.de/der-hellste-gammablitz-aller-zeiten/
NASA/Swift/A. Beardmore (University of Leicester) #Astrodon #Space #Podcast #GRB
