An optical outburst 10 billion light-years away provided the first direct optical confirmation of a 15-year-old theoretical prediction.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
The D50 robotic telescope at the Astronomical Institute of the Czech Academy of Sciences in Ond\u0159ejov recorded a shape in the light curve of a gamma-ray burst that had been predicted since 2009 but had never before been convincingly observed: synchrotron radiation from a thermal electron population in a relativistic shock wave. This is the first direct optical confirmation of key predictions from computer simulations and, at the same time, demonstrates that the temperature of plasma in a cosmic accelerator can be measured using a single ground-based telescope.<\/p>\n\n\n\n
ASU press release \/ web AI ASCR<\/a> (in Czech)<\/p>\n\n\n\n An optical outburst 10 billion light-years away provided the first direct optical confirmation of a 15-year-old theoretical prediction. The D50 robotic telescope at the Astronomical<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":5708,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[39,35],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5706","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-hotstars","category-news"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/stel.asu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/stel.asu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/stel.asu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stel.asu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stel.asu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5706"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/stel.asu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":5707,"href":"https:\/\/stel.asu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5706\/revisions\/5707"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stel.asu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/5708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/stel.asu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5706"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stel.asu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5706"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/stel.asu.cas.cz\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5706"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}More information and contacts<\/h4>\n\n\n\n
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