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The Swift gamma-ray burst mission
- N. Gehrels, N. White, +68 authors M. Vietri
- Physics, Computer Science
- 20 August 2004
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Evolutionary Processes in Close Binary Systems
- B. Paczy'nski
- Physics
- 1971
The structure and evolution of the stars constitute one of the main prob lems of modern astrophysics. Binary stars are so common that it is not pos sible to develop a comprehensive theory of… Expand
Gravitational microlensing by the galactic halo
- B. Paczy'nski
- Physics
- 1 May 1986
A simple model of microlensing by massive objects that might be present in the halo of the Galaxy is presented. It is shown that in any nearby galaxy one star out of a million is strongly microlensed… Expand
A model of accretion disks in close binaries.
- B. Paczy'nski
- Physics
- 15 September 1977
The simple periodic orbits of a test particle in the restricted three-body problem are a very good approximation to the streamlines in the accretion disk with a very small pressure and viscosity. The… Expand
Discovery of a cool planet of 5.5 Earth masses through gravitational microlensing
- J. Beaulieu, D. Bennett, +70 authors T. Yoshioka
- Physics, Medicine
- Nature
- 25 January 2006
In the favoured core-accretion model of formation of planetary systems, solid planetesimals accumulate to build up planetary cores, which then accrete nebular gas if they are sufficiently massive.… Expand
Transient Events from Neutron Star Mergers
- L. Li, B. Paczy'nski
- Physics
- 27 July 1998
Mergers of neutron stars (NS + NS) or neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes (NS + BH) eject a small fraction of matter with a subrelativistic velocity. Upon rapid decompression, nuclear-density… Expand
Gamma-ray bursters at cosmological distances
- B. Paczy'nski
- Physics
- 15 September 1986
It is proposed that some, perhaps most, gamma-ray bursters are at cosmological distances, like quasars, with a redshift of about 1 or 2. This proposition requires a release of supernova-like energy… Expand
A test of the galactic origin of gamma-ray bursts
- B. Paczy'nski
- Physics
- 1990
Models in which gamma-ray bursters are young neutron stars may be difficult to reconcile with the apparently isotropic distribution of observed bursts. To justify this statement, the distribution of… Expand
The Optical Gravitational Lensing Experiment. The Optical Depth to Gravitational Microlensing in the Direction of the Galactic Bulge
- A. Udalski, M. Szymański, +6 authors R. Venkat
- Physics
- 1 April 1994
We present the analysis of the first two years of the OGLE search for gravitational lenses towards the Galactic bulge. We detected 9 microlensing events in an algorithmic search of $ \sim 10^8 $… Expand
Gamma-ray bursts as the death throes of massive binary stars
- R. Narayan, B. Paczy'nski, T. Piran
- Physics
- 13 April 1992
We propose that gamma-ray bursts are created in the mergers of double neutron star binaries and black hole neutron star binaries at cosmological distances. Two different processes provide the… Expand