The Crisis of Classification

Talk
Event Gamma-Ray Bursts 2007 (Santa Fe Conference) Location Santa Fe, NM Date Nov 2007

Summary

Conference talk arguing that gamma-ray bursts’ long/short split no longer maps cleanly onto their progenitors (durations, spectral lags and host offsets all have exceptions) and proposing a physically based classification instead.

The written version is the proceedings paper “Gamma-ray Bursts, Classified Physically” (Bloom, Butler & Perley 2008).