Gamma-ray bursts : 15 years of GRB afterglows ; progenitors, environments and host galaxies from the nearby to the early universe ; Marbella (Málaga), Spain, October 8 - 12, 2012

Frontmatter -- List of Participants -- Contents -- Editorial -- Chapter I. Historical Remarks -- THE HISTORY OF BATSE -- EARLY DANISH GRB EXPERIMENTS - AND SOME FOR THE FUTURE? -- IOFFE INSTITUTE GRB EXPERIMENTS: PAST, PRESENT AND FUTURE -- Chapter II. Prompt Emission-I Observations -- FERMI AND SWIFT OBSERVATIONS OF SHORT GRBS -- TEMPORAL DECOMPOSITION STUDIES OF GRB LIGHTCURVES -- PHOTOSPHERIC EMISSION FROM GAMMA-RAY BURSTS -- GRBS OBSERVED BY MAXI -- SEARCHING FOR GALACTIC SOURCES IN THE SWIFT GRB CATALOG -- KONUS-WIND OBSERVATION OF THE ULTRA-LUMINOUS GRB 110918A -- GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: THE DEPENDENCE OF THE SPECTRAL LAG ON THE ENERGY -- ON THE PROPERTIES OF SPECTRAL LAGS AND PEAK-COUNT RATES OF RHESSI GAMMA-RAY BURSTS -- FERMI/LAT OBSERVATIONS OF GRB 110625A -- INTRINSIC PROPERTIES OF SWIFT LONG GAMMA-RAY BURSTS -- THE MULTI-BAND EMISSION PROFILE IN GRB -- ON THE PROMPT SIGNALS OF GAMMA RAY BURSTS -- Chapter III. Prompt Emission-II Theory -- RADIATIVE MECHANISMS IN GRB PROMPT EMISSION -- WIDE-BAND SPECTRA OF PROMPT EMISSION -- GLOBAL PROPERTIES OF HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION FROM GAMMA-RAY BURSTS -- ON AMATI RELATION FOR GRB PROMPT EMISSION -- RELATIVISTIC FILAMENTATION INSTABILITY IN AN ARBITRARILY ORIENTED MAGNETIC FIELD -- Chapter IV. Jet Dynamics -- GAMMA-RAY BURST JET DYNAMICS -- COOLING-INDUCED STRUCTURES IN COLLAPSAR ACCRETION DISKS -- 3D GRB JETS DRILLING THROUGH THE PROGENITOR -- RADIO AFTERGLOW OF THE JETTED TIDAL DISRUPTION EVENT SWIFT J1644+57 -- MAGNETIC FIELD AMPLIFICATION AND SATURATION BY TURBULENCE IN A RELATIVISTIC SHOCK PR -- RADIATION FROM ACCELERATED PARTICLES IN RELATIVISTIC JETS WITH SHOCKS, SHEAR-FLOW, AND RECONNECTION -- ACCELERATION OF MAGNETIZED COLLAPSAR JETS AFTER BREAKOUT -- GRB PROMPT EMISSION AND THE PHYSICS OF ULTRA-RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS -- Chapter V. Afterglow Emission-I Long GRBs (Observations) -- LINEAR AND CIRCULAR POLARIMETRY OBSERVATIONS OF GAMMA-RAY BURST AFTERGLOWS -- IMPLICATIONS OF EARLY TIME OBSERVATIONS OF OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS OF GRBS -- AN INTRINSIC CORRELATION BETWEEN GRB OPTICAL/UV AFTERGLOW BRIGHTNESS AND DECAY RATE -- PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF RAPIDLY DECAYING AFTERGLOWS -- TACKLING THE AFTERGLOW FORWARD-SHOCK MODEL WITH GROND -- A COMPLETE SAMPLE OF LONG BRIGHT SWIFT GRBS -- OBSERVING GRB AFTERGLOWS, SNE AND THEIR HOST GALAXIES WITH THE 10.4 M GRAN TELESCOPIO CANARIAS (GTC) -- STATISTICAL PROPERTIES OF GRB AFTERGLOW PARAMETERS AS EVIDENCE OF COSMOLOGICAL EVOLUTION OF HOST GALAXIES -- VLT/X-SHOOTER ABSORPTION SPECTROSCOPY OF THE GRB 120327A AFTERGLOW -- GRBS FOLLOWED-UP BY THE BOOTES NETWORK -- CATACLYSMIC VARIABLES AND GAMMA-RAY SOURCES -- GAMMA-RAY BURST OBSERVATIONS WITH ISON NETWORK -- MANAGING GRB AFTERGLOWS OPTICAL/IR OBSERVATIONS IN THE WEB 2.0 ERA -- GRB 110715A: MULTIWAVELENGTH STUDY OF THE FIRST GAMMA-RAY BURST OBSERVED WITH ALMA -- COLOR INDICES OF OPTICAL AFTERGLOWS OF LONG GRBS IN THE SWIFT ERA -- A CASE STUDY OF DARK GRB 051008 -- MILLIMETRE OBSERVATIONS OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AT IRAM -- Chapter VI. Afterglow Emission-II (Theory) -- GRB AFTERGLOW -- THEORETICAL ASPECTS OF THE FIREBALL SCENARIO -- SIMILARITIES: GRB 940217, GBR 090926A AND GRB 980923 -- Chapter VII. Short GRBs -- MULTI-WAVELENGTH OBSERVATIONS OF SHORT-DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: RECENT RESULTS -- SHORT DURATION GAMMA-RAY BURST WITH EXTENDED EMISSION -- SHORT GRB AFTERGLOWS OBSERVED WITH GROND -- GRB EMISSION IN NEUTRON STAR TRANSITIONS -- SPECTRAL EVOLUTION OF SHORT GRBS ON SUB-MILLISECOND TIME SCALE -- NUCLEOSYNTHESIS FROM LGRB-TYPE ACCRETION DISKS -- A GTC STUDY OF THE AFTERGLOW AND HOST GALAXY OF THE SHORT-DURATION GRB 100816A -- HIGH-ENERGY EMISSION IN SHORT GRBS AND THE ROLE OF MAGNETAR CENTRAL ENGINES -- Chapter VIII. Progenitors and Environments -- DISSECTING THE GRB ENVIRONMENT WITH OPTICAL AND X-RAY OBSERVATIONS -- EARLY UV/OPTICAL EMISSION OF THE TYPE IB SN 2008D -- THE CIRCUMSTELLAR MEDIUM SURROUNDING ROTATING MASSIVE STARS AS GRB PRECURSORS -- GRB AFTERGLOWS: A STORY YET TO BE WRITTEN -- Chapter IX. Host Galaxies -- THE COSMIC EVOLUTION OF GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXIES -- KECK OBSERVATIONS OF 160 GAMMA-RAY BURST HOST GALAXIES -- THE REDSHIFT DISTRIBUTION OF THE TOUGH SURVEY -- GRB-SN CONNECTION IN SAO RAS OBSERVATIONS -- X-SHOOTER SLIT OBSERVATIONS OF GRB HOST GALAXIES -- ON THE METAL AVERSION OF LGRBS -- PROBING GALAXY EVOLUTION WITH GAMMA-RAY BURSTS -- THE MASS-SFR-METALLICITY RELATION OF STAR FORMING GALAXIES AND ITS EVOLUTION: IMPLICATIONS FOR GRB/SN HOST GALAXIES -- A DEEP SEARCH FOR THE HOST GALAXIES OF GRBS WITH NO DETECTED OPTICAL AFTERGLOW -- STUDY OF BTA, HUBBLE, AND SPITZER GRB 021004 DEEP FIELDS -- THE MULTI-BAND STUDY OF THE ENVIRONMENT OF THE RC J0311+0507 RADIO GALAXY: A STEP FORWARD TO UNDERSTAND MASSIVE STELLAR SYSTEM FORMATION AT Z > 4 -- GRB HOST GALAXIES: A FASCINATING RESEARCH FIELD -- Chapter X. Instrumentation and Techniques-I (Ongoing Projects) -- RECENT PROGRESS ON GRBS WITH SWIFT -- THE INTERPLANETARY NETWORK -- STATUS AND PERSPECTIVES OF MINI-MEGATORTORA WIDE-FIELD MONITORING SYSTEM WITH HIGH TEMPORAL RESOLUTION -- STATUS OF THE BOOTES-IR PROJECT AT OSN FOR GRB NEAR-IR FOLLOW-UP -- PHOTOMETRIC OBSERVATIONS OF GRB080605 BY BOOTES-1B AND BOOTES-2 -- STATUS OF PI OF THE SKY TELESCOPES IN SPAIN AND CHILE -- GLORIA - THE GLOBAL ROBOTIC TELESCOPES INTELLIGENT ARRAY FOR E-SCIENCE -- STATUS UPDATE OF THE WA -- SWIFT PUBLICATION STATISTICS AND THE COMPARISON WITH OTHER MAJOR OBSERVATORIES -- ASTRONOMICAL HOSTING IN CENTRAL ASIA -- Chapter XI. Instrumentation & Techniques-II (Lomonosov/UFFO) -- ULTRA-FAST FLASH OBSERVATORY: FAST RESPONSE SPACE MISSIONS FOR EARLY TIME PHASE OF GAMMA RAY BURSTS -- THE ULTRA FAST FLASH OBSERVATORY PATHFINDER - UFFO-P GRB IMAGING AND LOCATION WITH ITS CODED MASK X-RAY IMAGER UBAT V. Reglero1 -- DESIGN, CONSTRUCTION AND PERFORMANCE OF THE DETECTOR FOR UFFO BURST ALERT & TRIGGER TELESCOPE -- THE CALIBRATION AND SIMULATION OF THE GRB TRIGGER DETECTOR OF THE ULTRA FAST FLASH OBSERVATORY -- THE SLEWING MIRROR TELESCOPE AND THE DATA-ACQUISITION SYSTEM -- SPACE EXPERIMENTS ON-BOARD OF LOMONOSOV MISSION TO STUDY GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AND UHECRS -- BDRG AND SHOK INSTRUMENTS FOR STUDY OF GRB PROMPT EMISSION IN MICHAYLO LOMONOSOV SPACE MISSION -- DEVELOPMENT OF SLEWING MIRROR TELESCOPE OPTICAL SYSTEM FOR THE UFFO-PATHFINDER -- DESIGN AND IMPLEMENTATION OF ELECTRONICS AND DATA ACQUISITION SYSTEM FOR ULTRA-FAST FLASH OBSERVATORY -- DEVELOPMENT OF MOTORIZED SLEWING MIRROR STAGE FOR THE UFFO PROJECT -- IN-FLIGHT CALIBRATIONS OF UFFO-PATHFINDER -- Chapter XII. Cosmology and Early Universe -- GAMMA-RAY BURSTS AND THE FIRST STARS -- A COMMON BEHAVIOR IN THE LATE X-RAY AFTERGLOW OF ENERGETIC GRB-SN SYSTEMS -- Chapter XIII. Instrumentation & Techniques-III Future Projects x -- X-RAY AND GAMMA-RAY POLARIMETRY OF GRBS -- GRBS AND LOBSTER EYE X-RAY TELESCOPES -- OBSERVING GRBS WITH THE LOFT WIDE FIELD MONITOR -- A-STAR: THE ALL-SKY TRANSIENT ASTROPHYSICS REPORTER -- FEASIBILITY OF A SMALL, RAPID OPTICAL/IR RESPONSE, NEXT GENERATION GAMMA-RAY BURST MISSION -- GRB POTENTIAL OF ESA GAIA -- Chapter XIV. Non Electromagnetics, VHE and UHE Emission -- CONSTRAINING GRB AS SOURCE FOR UHE COSMIC RAYS THROUGH NEUTRINO OBSERVATIONS -- FERMI GBM CAPABILITIES FOR MULTI-MESSENGER TIME-DOMAIN ASTRONOMY -- COSMIC-RAYS AND GAMMA RAY BURSTS -- CONCLUDING REMARKS -- Index.