Gamma-Ray Bursts & Transient Phenomena

Talk
Event Science in the Era of TMT, UC Irvine Location Irvine, CA Date Jul 2007

Summary

Talk on the transient science a thirty-meter telescope could do: gamma-ray bursts as beacons to the first galaxies and reionization, tidal disruption flares out to cosmological distances, and what TMT would need to respond to them quickly.

Monday, July 23, 2007, at a science workshop on the planned Thirty Meter Telescope; supernovae were covered by other speakers.