GRB

abbreviation for

1. gamma-ray burst.

Example Sentences

Rather than observe the event immediately, Blanchard, his close collaborator Ashley Villar of Harvard University and their team wanted to view the GRB during its later phases.

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Surprisingly, it wasn't exceptionally bright -- like the incredibly bright GRB that it accompanied.

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"When we confirmed that the GRB was generated by the collapse of a massive star, that gave us the opportunity to test a hypothesis for how some of the heaviest elements in the universe are formed," said Northwestern's Peter Blanchard, who led the study.

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"As long as we have been able to detect GRBs, there is no question that this GRB is the brightest we have ever witnessed by a factor of 10 or more," Wen-fai Fong, an associate professor of physics and astronomy at Northwestern's Weinberg College of Arts and Sciences and member of CIERA, said at the time.

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"The GRB was so bright that it obscured any potential supernova signature in the first weeks and months after the burst," Blanchard said.

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