“100 sec GRBs” as standard candles in cosmology Antonios Nathanail, RCAAM, Academy of Athens
Our team at the Academy Ioannis Contopoulos Mathew Katsanikas Elpida Koutsantoniou Antonios Nathanail Theocharis Apostolatos (U of Athens)
Nathanail & Contopoulos 2014
Nathanail & Contopoulos 2014
Sironi & Spitkovky 2014 Nathanail & Contopoulos 2014
Black Hole spin down Reducible “rotational” energy from black hole + Magnetic field
Black Hole spin down Blandford & Znajek (1977) mechanism
Black Hole spin down
Black Hole spin down
Black Hole spin down
GRB Observations
GRB Observations
GRB Observations
GRB Observations
Orthogonal GRB model
Orthogonal GRB model
Are GRBs “standard candles”?
Are GRBs “standard candles”?
Are GRBs “standard candles”?
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