Publications

GRBs & XRBs

2002 Papers

• Proposed Next Generation GRB Mission: EXIST
  J. Grindlay , N. Gehrels, F. Harrison, R. Blandford, G. Fishman, C. Kouveliotou, D. Hartman, S. Woosley, W. Craig and J. Hong;
  2002,
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• GRB010921: Localization and Observations by the HETE Satellite
  Ricker, G., Hurley, K., Lamb, D., Woosley, S., Atteia, J.-L., Kawai, N., Vanderspek, R., Crew, G., Doty, J., Villasenor, J., Prigozhin, G., Monnelly, G., Butler, N., Matsuoka, M., Shirasaki, Y., Tamagawa, T., Torii, K., Sakamoto, T., Yoshida, A., Fenimore, E., Galassi, M., Tavenner, T., Donaghy, T., Graziani, C., Boer, M., Dezalay, J.-P., Niel, M., Olive, J.-F., Vedrenne, G., Cline, T., Jernigan, J. G., Levine, A., Martel, F., Morgan, E., Braga, J., Manchanda, R., Pizzichini, G., Takagishi, K., & Yamauchi, M.
  2002, 5 pages, 2 figures. To be submitted to Astrophysical Journal Letters, 1461
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• Off-Axis Afterglow Emission from Jetted Gamma-Ray Bursts
  Granot, J., Panaitescu, A., Kumar, P., & Woosley, S. E.
  2002, 4 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL., 1322
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• Transient Absorption Features in Gamma-Ray Bursts and Their Implications for Gamma-Ray Burst Progenitors
  Böttcher, M., Fryer, C. L., & Dermer, C. D.
  2002, Astrophysical Journal, 567, 441
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• Hydrostatic Expansion and Spin Changes during Type I X-Ray Bursts
  Cumming, A., Morsink, S. M., Bildsten, L., Friedman, J. L., & Holz, D. E.
  2002, Astrophysical Journal, 564, 343
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• The Difficulty in Using Orphan Afterglows to Measure Gamma-Ray Burst Beaming
  Dalal, N., Griest, K., & Pruet, J.
  2002, Astrophysical Journal, 564, 209
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2001 Papers

• The Merger of a Helium Star and a Black Hole: Gamma-Ray Bursts
  Zhang, W. & Fryer, C. L.
  2001, Astrophysical Journal, 550, 357
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• End Point of the rp Process on Accreting Neutron Stars
  Schatz, H., Aprahamian, A., Barnard, V., Bildsten, L., Cumming, A., Ouellette, M., Rauscher, T., Thielemann, F.-K., & Wiescher, M.
  2001, Physical Review Letters, 86, 3471
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• Supernovae, Jets, and Collapsars
  MacFadyen, A. I., Woosley, S. E., & Heger, A.
  2001, Astrophysical Journal, 550, 410
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• Precursors and electron-positron pair loading from erupting fireballs
  Ramirez-Ruiz, E., MacFadyen, A. I., & Lazzati, D.
  2001, 12 pages, 5 figures, MNRAS in press., 111342
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• X-Ray Spectral Features from Gamma-Ray Bursts: Predictions of Progenitor Models
  Böttcher, M. & Fryer, C. L.
  2001, Astrophysical Journal, 547, 338
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• Pair-Instability Supernovae, Gravity Waves, and Gamma-Ray Transients
  Fryer, C. L., Woosley, S. E., & Heger, A.
  2001, Astrophysical Journal, 550, 372
  ADS, astro-ph/0007176, PS



• Iron lines from GRBs: Clues toward the progenitor
  Böttcher, M. & Fryer, C. L.
  2001, Revista Mexicana de Astronomia y Astrofisica Conference Series, 10, 182
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• Astronomy: Blinded by the light
  Woosley, S.
  2001, Nature, 414, 853
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• Carbon Flashes in the Heavy-Element Ocean on Accreting Neutron Stars
  Cumming, A. & Bildsten, L.
  2001, Astrophysical Journal, 559, L127
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• Helium Detonations on Neutron Stars
  Zingale, M., Timmes, F. X., Fryxell, B., Lamb, D. Q., Olson, K., Calder, A. C., Dursi, L. J., Ricker, P., Rosner, R., MacNeice, P., & Tufo, H. M.
  2001, Astrophysical Journal Supplement Series, 133, 195
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• Black Hole Formation, Gamma-Ray Bursts, and Stellar Winds
  Fryer, C. L.
  2001, Black Holes in Binaries and Galactic Nuclei, 328
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• Luminosity and Variability of Collimated Gamma-ray Bursts
  Kobayashi, S., Ryde, F., & MacFadyen, A.
  2001, 14 pages, 3 figures, submitted to ApJL., 110080
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• Transient Absorption Features in GRBs and Their Implications for GRB Progenitors
  Boettcher, M., Fryer, C. L., & Dermer, C. D.
  2001, 14 pages, including 2 eps figures, using AASTeX macros. Accepted for publication in ApJ Preprint no. LAUR 01-5634., 110625
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• Magnetic Screening in Accreting Neutron Stars
  Cumming, A., Zweibel, E., & Bildsten, L.
  2001, Astrophysical Journal, 557, 958
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• The difficulty in using orphan afterglows to measure gamma-ray burst beaming
  Griest, K., Dalal, N., & Pruet, J.
  2001, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 198, 3802
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• GRBs from Collapsars
  MacFadyen, A. I.
  2001, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 198, 3508
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• Relativistic Jets and Collapsars
  Zhang, W. & Woosley, S. E.
  2001, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 198, 3803
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• On the Progenitors of Collapsars
  Woosley, S. E. & Heger, A.
  2001, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 198, 3801
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• Fallback in Supernovae and Black Hole Formation
  Heger, A., MacFadyen, A. I., & Woosley, S. E.
  2001, Black Holes in Binaries and Galactic Nuclei, 332
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• Transient X-ray absorption in GRBs and its implications for GRB statistics
  Böottcher, M. & Fryer, C. L.
  2001, Two Years of Science with Chandra, Abstracts from the Symposium held in Washington, DC, 5-7 September, 2001., 128
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• Collapsars, gamma-ray bursts, and supernovae
  Woosley, S. E., MacFadyen, A. I., & Heger, A.
  2001, Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts: the Greatest Explosions since the Big Bang, 171
  ADS, astro-ph/9909034



• Evolution and Explosion of Very Massive Primordial Stars
  Heger, A., Woosley, S. E., Baraffe, I., & Abel, T.
  2001, 7 pages, including 4 figures; in. proc. MPA/ESO/MPE/USM Joint Astronomy Conference "Lighthouses of the Universe: The Most Luminous Celestial Objects and their use for Cosmology", 112059
  ADS, astro-ph/0010206, PS




2000 Papers

• The Link Between Neutrons, the Weak Interaction, and the Gamma-Ray Burst Baryon-Loading Problem
  Abazajian, K., Pruet, J., & Fuller, G. M.
  2000, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 197, 1706
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• Population Synthesis of GRB Progenitors: Problems With Kicks
  Fryer, C. L.
  2000, IAU Symp. 195: Highly Energetic Physical Processes and Mechanisms for Emission from Astrophysical Plasmas, 195, 339
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• Collapsars
  MacFadyen, A.
  2000, AIP Conf. Proc. 526: Gamma-ray Bursts, 5th Huntsville Symposium, 633
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• 2D Hydrodynamic Simulations of Relativistic Jets from Collapsars
  Müller, E., Aloy, M. A. A., Ibáñez, J. M., & MacFadyen, A.
  2000, AIP Conf. Proc. 526: Gamma-ray Bursts, 5th Huntsville Symposium, 565
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• Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Central Engine
  Woosley, S. E.
  2000, AIP Conf. Proc. 526: Gamma-ray Bursts, 5th Huntsville Symposium, 555
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• Delayed X-ray flashes from GRBs
  Boettcher, M. & Fryer, C. L.
  2000, AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division, 32, 3004
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• Magnetic Screening in Accreting Neutron Stars
  Cumming, A., Zweibel, E. G., & Bildsten, L.
  2000, AAS/High Energy Astrophysics Division, 32, 2903
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• Making Accretion Disks around Blacks Holes: GRB Progenitors
  Fryer, C. L. & Zhang, W.
  2000, AIP Conf. Proc. 526: Gamma-ray Bursts, 5th Huntsville Symposium, 643
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• The Most Distant Gamma-Ray Bursts
  Hartmann, D. H., MacFadyen, A. I., & Woosley, S. E.
  2000, AIP Conf. Proc. 526: Gamma-ray Bursts, 5th Huntsville Symposium, 653
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• Helium Detonations on Neutron Stars
  Zingale, M., Timmes, F. X., Fryxell, B., Lamb, D. Q., Olson, K., Calder, A. C., Dursi, L. J., Ricker, P., Rosner, R., Truran, J. W., MacNeice, P., & Tufo, H.
  2000, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 196, 1703
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• Rotational Evolution during Type I X-Ray Bursts
  Cumming, A. & Bildsten, L.
  2000, Astrophysical Journal, 544, 453
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• Helium Detonations on Neutron Stars
  Fryxell, B., Zingale, M., Timmes, F. X., Lamb, D. Q., Olson, K., Calder, A. C., Dursi, L. J., Ricker, P., & Rosner, R.
  2000, Nuclear Astrophysics, 2000, 38
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• Relativistic Jets from Collapsars
  Aloy, M. A., Müller, E., Ibáñez, J. M., Martí, J. M., & MacFadyen, A.
  2000, Astrophysical Journal, 531, L119
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• 2-dimensional Helium Detonations on the Surface of Neutron Stars
  Zingale, M., Timmes, F. X., Fryxell, B., Lamb, D. Q., Olson, K., Ricker, P., Calder, A. C., Dursi, L. J., Rosner, R., & Truran, J. W.
  2000, Rossi2000: Astrophysics with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. March 22-24, 2000 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA, p.E67, E67
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• Rotational Evolution during Type I X-Ray Bursts
  Cumming, A. & Bildsten, L.
  2000, Rossi2000: Astrophysics with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer. March 22-24, 2000 at NASA's Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD USA, p.E66, E66
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• Thermonuclear Quenching in Flame-Vortex Interactions
  Zingale, M., Niemeyer, J. C., Timmes, F. X., Dursi, L. J., Calder, A. C., Fryxell, B., Olson, K., Ricker, P., Rosner, R., Truran, J. W., Tufo, H., & MacNeice, P.
  2000, American Astronomical Society Meeting, 197, 8104
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