Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era: Proceedings of the International Workshop Held in Rome, Italy, 17-20 October 2000

Some Recent, Interesting Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 3-8
On the Fast Spectral Variability of GRBs....Pages 9-12
Spectral Properties of Short Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 13-15
X-Ray Flashes and X-Ray Rich Gamma Ray Bursts....Pages 16-21
BATSE Observations of Fast X-Ray Transients Detected by BeppoSAX-WFC....Pages 22-25
Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts with the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer....Pages 26-33
Testing the Optically Thin Synchrotron Shock Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts Spectra from 2 to 700 keV with BeppoSAX....Pages 34-36
On the Spectra of the Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 37-39
Short Gamma-Ray Bursts Are Different....Pages 40-42
New Possibilities Offered by BeppoSAX: Automatic GRB Alerts Using GRBM....Pages 43-46
Probing the Isotropy in the Sky Distribution of the Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 47-49
Analysis of the BATSE GRB Light Curves....Pages 50-52
Gamma-Ray Burst Follow Up Observations with BOOTES in 1998-2000....Pages 53-55
Non-isotropic Angular Distribution for Very Short-Time Gamma-Ray Bursts?....Pages 56-59
Tools for Gamma-Ray Burst Data Mining....Pages 60-62
Broadband Spectral Deconvolution of GRBs....Pages 63-65
A Gamma-Ray Bursts’ Fluence-Duration Correlation....Pages 66-68
Estimation of Emission Time Parameter for APEX Experiment....Pages 69-71
Quiescent Times in Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 72-74
Neutrino Astrophysics with the MACRO Detector....Pages 75-77
The Fingerprints of the GRB Process....Pages 78-80
A Variety of Decays of Gamma-Ray Burst Pulses....Pages 81-83
The GRBs at Rest Frames of Emitters....Pages 84-86
The Unique Signature of Shell Curvature in Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 87-90
Final Results of the Off-Line Scan of the BATSE Daily Records....Pages 91-93
X-Ray Afterglows and Features of Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 97-105
Transient Spectral Features in the Prompt Emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts with BeppoSAX....Pages 106-111
Discovery of a Redshifted Iron K-Line in the X-Ray Afterglow of GRB 000214....Pages 112-114
Observations of Iron Features with ASCA....Pages 115-117
Temporal and Spectral Analysis of X-Ray Afterglows of GRBs Observed by BeppoSAX....Pages 118-120
Optical/Near-IR Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era....Pages 121-126
The GRB Followup Euro-US Consortium: Results from the ESO Telescopes....Pages 127-129
GRB 000301C: A Possible Short/Intermediate Duration Burst Connected to a DLA System....Pages 130-132
Hunting Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Lyman-Forest; GRB 000131 at z = 4.50 Based on observations collected at the European Southern Observatory, La Silla and Paranal, Chile (ESO Programmes 64.H-0573, 64.H-0580, 64.O-0187, and 64.H-0313) ....Pages 133-135
Evidence for a Supernova in the Ic Band Light Curve of the Optical Transient of GRB 970508....Pages 136-138
Hypernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 139-141
Theoretical Implications of the Gamma-Ray Burst-Supernova Connection....Pages 142-147
Properties of GRB Optical Afterglows: Colors and Luminosities....Pages 148-150
GRB Optical Afterglows: Correlation between Pair of Parameters....Pages 151-153
Broad-Band Modelling of GRB Afterglows....Pages 154-156
The Jet and the Supernova in GRB 990712....Pages 157-159
On the Transient Fe K-Edge in the Prompt Emission of GRB 990705....Pages 160-162
On the Detectability of Delayed X-Ray Flashes from GRBs....Pages 163-165
Wolf-Rayet Stars and GRB Connection....Pages 166-168
Follow-Up Observations from Observatories Based in Spain....Pages 169-171
Optical Observations of the Dark Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 000210....Pages 172-174
The Light Curves of GRB 990123 and GRB 990510....Pages 175-177
GRB/SNe Correlations: Search for Unrecognized OAs of GRBs among Detected SNe....Pages 178-180
Optical GRB Analyses: Results from Archival Plates....Pages 181-184
EN: Simultaneous Optical Data for GRBs....Pages 185-187
Near-Infrared Polarimetric Observations of GRB Afterglows....Pages 188-190
Iron Line Emission in X-Ray Afterglows....Pages 191-194
BeppoSAX Observation of GRB990806: From the Prompt Emission to the X-Ray Afterglow....Pages 195-197
GRB000615 in X-Rays....Pages 198-200
GRB980613 a Very Faint Burst with a Not So Faint Afterglow Detected by BeppoSAX....Pages 201-203
Physical Constraints from Broadband Afterglow Fits: GRB000926 as an Example....Pages 204-206
The Observed Offset Distribution of GRBs about Their Hosts....Pages 209-211
A Deep, High-Resolution Imaging Survey of GRB Host Galaxies....Pages 212-214
Host Galaxies as Gamma-Ray Burst Distance Indicators....Pages 215-217
The GRB Host Galaxies and Redshifts Based in part on the observations obtained at the W.M. Keck Observatory, operated by the California Association for Research in Astronomy, a scientific partnership among Caltech, the Univ. of California and NASA; and with the NASA/ESA Hubble Space Telescope, operated by the AURA, Inc., under a contract with NASA. ....Pages 218-225
Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of Cosmology....Pages 226-232
Construction of the Variability $\\rightarrow$ Luminosity Estimator....Pages 233-235
Early Afterglows as Probes for the Reionization Epoch....Pages 236-238
 $\\gamma$ -Ray Burst Remnants: How Can We Find Them?....Pages 239-242
Progenitors of GRBs Originated in the Dense Star Clusters....Pages 243-245
The Multiband Photometry of GRB Host Galaxies: Comparison with the Spectral Energy Distributions of Nearby Galaxies and Theoretical Modeling....Pages 246-248
Multiscale Statistical Methods and the Angular Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 249-251
Determining the Gamma-Ray Burst Rate as a Function of Redshift....Pages 252-254
Gamma-Ray Burst Models: The Central Engine....Pages 257-262
High-Energy Particles from $\\gamma$ -Ray Bursts....Pages 263-268
Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutron-Decay Halos from Gamma Ray Bursts....Pages 269-271
On the Neutrino Flux from Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 272-274
Efficiency and Spectrum of Internal $\\gamma$ -Ray Burst Shocks....Pages 275-277
Observational Consequences of $e^\\pm$ Pair Creation in $\\gamma$ -Ray Bursts....Pages 278-280
The Close Environment of GRB....Pages 281-287
Failed Optical Afterglows....Pages 288-290
Winds from Massive Stars and the Afterglows of $\\gamma$ -Ray Bursts....Pages 291-293
The Effects of a Gamma-Ray Burst on Nearby Preplanetary Systems....Pages 294-296
The Role of Dust in GRB Afterglows....Pages 297-299
Theory of GRB Afterglow....Pages 300-305
Strange Afterglows from Embedded GRBs: Reconciling Hypernovae with Slow Decays....Pages 306-311
Light Curves from an Expanding Relativistic Jet....Pages 312-314
GRBs, Fireballs and Precessing Gamma Jets....Pages 315-317
Neutrino Pair Annihilation above a Kerr Black Hole with the Accretion Disk....Pages 318-320
Dissipation Efficiency of Internal Shocks in GRB....Pages 321-323
Interaction between Internal Shocks and the Reverse Shock for a GRB in a Dense Stellar Wind....Pages 324-326
GRB Synchrotron-Self-Compton Emission Generated by Self-Consistent Electron Distribution....Pages 327-329
Effects of Free Neutrons on Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 330-332
Bursts and Black Holes....Pages 333-335
Light Curves of Optical Afterglows....Pages 336-338
Ultra Efficient Internal Shocks....Pages 339-341
Light Curves of GRB Optical Flashes....Pages 342-344
100 GeV Photons from Gamma-Ray Burst Fireballs....Pages 345-347
New Results on the Temporal Structure of GRBs....Pages 348-350
Signature of a Highly Magnetized Millisecond Pulsar in GRB Afterglows....Pages 351-353
The Swift Panchromatic GRB Mission....Pages 357-359
The Italian Contribution to the Swift Mission....Pages 360-362
The INTEGRAL Burst Alert System....Pages 363-365
AGILE and Gamma-Ray Bursts....Pages 366-367
Gamma-Ray Bursts with SuperAGILE....Pages 368-370
The GLAST Burst Monitor (GBM)....Pages 371-374
The IPN I: From the Past to the Future....Pages 375-377
One Year of Rapid, Precise Gamma-Ray Burst Localizations by the Interplanetary Network....Pages 378-380
GRBs of Energy E > 10 GeV with ARGO-YBJ....Pages 381-383
Progress on MARGIE, a Gamma-Ray Burst Ultra-long Duration Balloon Mission....Pages 384-386
Simultaneous Detection of the High Energy and Optical Transients by Čerenkov Telescopes....Pages 387-389
PREPROCESS: A Fast Image Processing Software Tool....Pages 390-392
The HETE Triggering Algorithm....Pages 393-395
The Status of the Ondřejov BART Experiment....Pages 396-398
Progress in Lobster Eye X-Ray Telescope Development....Pages 399-401
On the Feasibility of Independent Detections of Optical Afterglows of GRBs....Pages 402-404
High Precision Space Astrometry of Cosmic GRBs....Pages 405-411
New Version of Optical Transient Monitor for BOOTES Project....Pages 412-414
High Resolution Spectroscopy of the X-Ray Emission of GRBs by IMXS-BOSS on the ISS....Pages 415-417
Statistics of Faint Variable Sources for GRB OA Analyses....Pages 418-420
Event Rates in SuperAGILE and HETE....Pages 421-423
IR and Optical Observations of GRB from Campo Imperatore....Pages 424-426
A GRB Detection System Using the BGO-Shield of the INTEGRAL-Sectrometer SPI....Pages 427-430
A Preview of the Swift UVOT Capabilities: Imaging and Lightcurves from XMM-Newton OM....Pages 431-433
REM - Rapid Eye Mount. A Fast Slewing Robotized Telescope to Monitor the Prompt Infra-red Afterglow of GRBs....Pages 434-436