POPULATION SYNTHESIS AND GAMMA RAY BURST PROGENITORS
Population synthesis studies of binaries are always limited by a myriad of uncertainties from the poorly understood effects of binary mass transfer and common envelope evolution to the many uncertainties that still remain in stellar evolution. But the importance of these uncertainties depends both upon the objects being studied and the questions asked about these objects. Here I review the most critical uncertainties in the population synthesis of gamma-ray burst progenitors. With a better understanding of these uncertainties, binary population synthesis can become a powerful tool in understanding, and constraining, gamma-ray burst models. In turn, as gamma-ray bursts become more important as cosmological probes, binary population synthesis of gamma-ray burst progenitors becomes an important tool in cosmology.
- Research Organization:
- Los Alamos National Laboratory (LANL), Los Alamos, NM (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy (US)
- DOE Contract Number:
- W-7405-ENG-36
- OSTI ID:
- 769157
- Report Number(s):
- LA-UR-00-5878; TRN: AH200121%%60
- Resource Relation:
- Journal Volume: 264; Conference: Conference title not supplied, Conference location not supplied, Conference dates not supplied; Other Information: PBD: 11 Dec 2000
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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