| Preface |
| Dedication: Jan van Paradijs 1946-1999 |
| General Properties / I.： |
| A Gamma-Ray Burst Bibliography, 1973-1999 / K. Hurley |
| Grb Detection and Classification |
| Derivation of a Sample of Gamma-Ray Bursts from BATSE DISCLA Data / M. Schmidt |
| A Search for Non-triggered Gamma-Ray Bursts in the BATSE Continuous Records: The Current Status / B. E. Stern ; Y. Tikhomirova ; D. Kompaneets ; M. Stepanov ; A. Berezhnoy ; R. Svensson |
| A Search for Gamma-Ray Bursts in the GRBM/BeppoSAX Database / C. Guidorzi ; F. Frontera ; L. Amati ; E. Costa ; M. Feroci |
| What Can BeppoSAX Tell Us about Short GRBs: An Update from the Subsecond GRB Project / G. Gandolfi ; M. J. S. Smith ; A. Coletta ; G. Celidonio ; L. Di Ciolo ; A. Paolino ; G. Tarei ; G. Tassone ; J. M. Muller ; L. Piro |
| MeV Measurements of [gamma]-Ray Bursts by CGRO-COMPTEL: Revised Catalog / A. Connors ; C. A. Young ; K. Bennett ; W. Collmar ; W. Hermsen ; R. M. Kippen ; L. Kuiper ; M. McConnell ; R. Miller ; J. M. Ryan ; V. Schonfelder ; O. R. Williams ; C. Winkler |
| Properties of Gamma-Ray Burst Classes / J. Hakkila ; D. J. Haglin ; R. J. Roiger ; R. S. Mallozzi ; G. N. Pendleton ; C. A. Meegan |
| Unsupervised Induction and Gamma-Ray Burst Classification |
| Detection Biases |
| A Summary of Biases in the BATSE Burst Trigger / C. Meegan ; A. Johnson ; G. Pendleton ; R. Mallozzi |
| The Fluence Duration Bias |
| A Monte Carlo Simulation of the Peak Counts Bias and the Slow Riser Bias in the BATSE Trigger |
| Distributions |
| Luminosities, Space Densities and Redshift Distributions of Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| Constraining the Luminosity Function of GRBs from Time Dilation, Brightness Distribution and Redshift Data / M. Deng ; B. E. Schaefer |
| Rest Frame Properties of Gamma-Ray Bursts / I. G. Mitrofanov ; D. S. Anfimov ; M. L. Litvak ; A. B. Sanin ; M. S. Briggs ; W. S. Paciesas ; R. D. Preece |
| LogN-LogF Distribution of BATSE Bursts Based on the Average Flux during High Power Emission / A. L. Sanin |
| Connection between Spectral Lags and Peak Luminosity in GRBs / J. P. Norris ; G. F. Marani ; J. T. Bonnell |
| A Simple BATSE Measure of GRB Duty Cycle |
| The Energy Distribution of GRBs / T. Piran ; R. Jimenez ; D. Band |
| The Pure Physical Parameters of BATSE Gamma Ray Bursts |
| Non-isotropic Angular Distribution for Very Short-Time Gamma-Ray Bursts? / D. B. Cline ; C. Matthey ; S. Otwinowski |
| Testing the Intrinsic Randomness in the Angular Distributions of Gamma-Ray Bursts / A. Meszaros ; Z. Bagoly ; I. Horvath ; L. G. Balazs ; R. Varek |
| On the Clustering of GRBs on the Sky / S. K. Sethi ; S. G. Bhargavi ; J. Greiner |
| Prompt Grb Emission / II.： |
| Spectral Studies |
| Gamma-Ray Burst Spectroscopy |
| Wide-Band Spectroscopy of GRB 990510 / J. van Paradijs ; J. in't Zand ; J. Heise ; E. Kuulkers ; C. Kouveliotou |
| Track Jumps in Hardness-Intensity Correlations of GRB Pulse Decays / L. Borgonovo ; F. Ryde |
| Shape of the Decay Phase of Gamma-Ray Burst Pulses |
| Average Spectral Parameters of High-Power Emission in BATSE Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| Cosmological Signatures in Intensity and Break Energy Correlations / N. M. Lloyd ; V. Petrosian |
| The Role of the BATSE Instrument Response in Creating the GRB E-Peak Distribution / J. J. Brainerd |
| Synchrotron Emission as the Source of GRB Spectra, Part II: Observations |
| Study of the Characteristics of GRB Energy Spectra / B. M. Belli |
| GRB 920229: Evidence for a Sharp Spectral Break? |
| Spectra of a Recent Bright Burst Measured by CGRO-COMPTEL: GRB 990123 / E. D. Kolaczyk |
| X-Ray Excesses in GRB Spectra / J. R. Espley |
| A New Method for Studying the Hardness-Intensity Correlation in Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| Time Resolved GRB Spectroscopy / M. Tavani ; G. Ghirlanda |
| Temporal Studies |
| Unusual Properties in the Time Profiles of Bright GRBs / F. Quilligan ; K. J. Hurley ; B. McBreen ; L. Hanlon ; P. Duggan ; D. Watson |
| Generic Difference between Early and Late Stages of BATSE Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| The Duration Errors of Gamma-Ray Bursts / E. E. Fenimore ; P. Meszaros |
| Power Density Spectra of Gamma-Ray Bursts / A. M. Beloborodov |
| GRB Time-Dilation Measurements Corrected for Trigger Bias / R. J. Nemiroff |
| Rise and Decay Time of Subpeaks in Short Duration Bursts / V. Gupta ; P. Das Gupta ; P. N. Bhat |
| Aperiodic Properties of Gamma-Ray Bursts / A. S. Pozanenko ; V. M. Loznikov |
| Evidence for and Implications of Turbulence in GRB Time Profiles / Y. Yan |
| The Technique of Emission Time Estimation for BATSE GRBs / T. M. Koshut ; G. J. Fishman ; J. P. Lestrade |
| The Emission Time Signature of BATSE GRBs |
| Observations at Other Energies |
| Evidence for TeV Emission From GRB 970417a / J. E. McEnery ; R. Atkins ; W. Benbow ; D. Berley ; M. L. Chen ; D. G. Coyne ; B. L. Dingus ; D. E. Dorfan ; R. W. Ellsworth ; D. Evans ; A. Falcone ; L. Fleysher ; R. Fleysher ; G. Gisler ; J. A. Goodman ; T. J. Haines ; C. M. Hoffman ; S. Hugenberger ; L. A. Kelley ; I. Leonor ; J. F. McCullough ; R. S. Miller ; A. I. Mincer ; M. F. Morales ; P. Nemethy ; B. Shen ; A. Shoup ; C. Sinnis ; A. J. Smith ; G. W. Sullivan ; T. Tumer ; K. Wang ; M. O. Wascko ; S. Westerhoff ; D. A. Williams ; T. Yang ; G. B. Yodh |
| Fast X-Ray Transients and Their Relation to GRBs / V. A. Arefiev ; K. N. Borozdin ; W. C. Priedhorsky |
| LOTIS Upper Limits and the Prompt OT from GRB 990123 / G. G. Williams ; D. H. Hartmann ; H. S. Park ; R. A. Porrata ; E. Ables ; R. Bionta ; D. L. Band ; S. D. Barthelmy ; T. Cline ; N. Gehrels ; D. H. Ferguson ; G. Fishman ; R. Nemiroff ; T. Sasseen |
| Preliminary Results from the TAROT Experiment / M. Boer ; J.-L. Atteia ; M. Bringer ; S. Chaty ; A. Klotz ; F. Morand ; H. Pedersen ; C. Pollas ; D. Toublanc |
| First Results from the Burst Observer and Optical Transient Exploring System Station 1 (BOOTES-1) / A. J. Castro-Tirado ; J. Soldan ; M. Bernas ; P. Pata ; R. Hudec ; T. M. Sanguino ; B. de la Morena ; J. A. Berna ; A. de Ugarte ; J. Gorosabel ; J. M. Mas-Hesse ; A. Gimenez |
| Optical Observations of GRBs: EN, BART, and OMC / V. Hudcova ; J. Florian ; M. Nekola ; O. Broz ; F. Hroch ; M. Mas-Hesse ; E. Palazzi ; N. Masetti ; G. Pizzichini |
| An Extended Search for Transient Events in the COBE/DMR Database Associated with Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts / L. J. Beathley, Jr. ; J. G. Stacy ; T. R. Bontekoe ; P. D. Jackson |
| Afterglow, Hosts, and Supernova Connections / III.： |
| The Afterglows of Gamma-Ray Bursts / S. R. Kulkarni ; E. Berger ; J. S. Bloom ; F. Chaffee ; A. Diercks ; S. G. Djorgovski ; D. A. Frail ; T. J. Galama ; R. W. Goodrich ; F. A. Harrison ; R. Sari ; S. A. Yost |
| Radio Afterglow |
| A Coordinated Radio Afterglow Program / M. H. Wieringa ; G. B. Taylor ; G. H. Moriarty-Schieven ; D. S. Shepherd ; R. M. Wark ; R. Subrahmanyan ; D. McConnell ; S. J. Cunningham |
| Optical Afterglow |
| Optical/Multiwavelength Observations of GRB Afterglows |
| Recent Optical/Near-IR Observations of GRBs / S. Klose ; V. Mohan ; R. Sagar ; I. Bond ; N. Rattenbury ; P. Yock ; F. Vrba ; A. Henden ; C. Luginbuhl ; A. Guarnieri ; M. R. Zapatero-Osorio ; J. Zhu ; S. Guziy ; A. Shlyapnikov |
| The Detection of Linear Polarization in the Afterglow of GRB 990510 and its Theoretical Implications / D. Lazzati ; S. Covino ; G. Ghisellini |
| Polarimetric Studies of Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows / B. Stecklum ; O. Fischer |
| Submillimeter Observations of GRB Counterparts / I. A. Smith ; R. P. J. Tilanus ; P. J. Groot ; P. Vreeswijk ; E. Rol ; R. A. M. J. Wijers ; N. Tanvir |
| Color Indices of Optical Afterglows of GRBs / V. Simon |
| Photometric Study of the Improved GRB 970815 Error Box / N. Benitez ; A. Campos ; J. Trapero ; E. Sanchez ; N. Metcalfe |
| CCD Observations of the QSO 4C49.29 in the Error Box of GRB 960720 |
| Optical Study of the Counterpart to GRB 990712 / P. Saizar ; N. J. Rattenbury ; I. A. Bond ; J. Hearnshaw ; P. M. Kilmartin ; Y. Muraki ; T. Nakamura ; K. Ohnishi ; M. Reid ; T. Saito ; S. Noda |
| Early Search for the Optical Afterglow from GRB 990806 |
| GRB Optical Searches: Results from UKSTU Plates |
| Connections between Parameters of GRB Afterglows / G. M. Beskin ; C. Bartolini ; G. Cosentino ; S. Lodi ; A. Piccioni |
| What Have We Learned from Optical Detections of GRBs: Feasibility of Independent Searches? |
| X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Afterglow |
| X-Ray Afterglow of Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| Constraints to the Nature of the Central GRB Engine from a Comparative Analysis of X-Ray Properties of Afterglows / G. Stratta ; L. A. Antonelli ; P. Soffitta |
| Search for X-Ray Afterglows from Gamma-Ray Bursts in the RASS / W. Voges ; T. Boller ; R. Schwarz ; S. V. Zharykov |
| BATSE Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Tails / V. Connaughton |
| Possible Evidence for Soft Glowing Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts Detected by the APEX Experiment on Phobos-2 / D. A. Litvine ; A. S. Kosyrev |
| Evidence for Early High-Energy Afterglow: BATSE Observations of GRB980923 / T. W. Giblin |
| GRB Spectral Hardness and Afterglow Properties / T. Giblin |
| Host Galaxies |
| Host Galaxies Have 'Normal' Luminosities |
| The Host of GRB 970828: Another Subluminous Galaxy? |
| Supernova Connections--Observational |
| The GRB/SN Connection: An Improved Spectral Flux Distribution for the SN-Like Component to the Afterglow of GRB 970228, the Non-detection of a SN-Like Component to the Afterglow of GRB 990510, and GRBs as Beacons to Locate SNe at Redshifts z[approximate]4-5 / D. E. Reichart ; D. Q. Lamb ; F. J. Castander |
| The GRB/Supernova Connection |
| Are There Unrecognized Optical Afterglows of GRBs among Observed SNe? |
| Theory / IV.： |
| Prompt Emission Mechanisms |
| External Shock Model for Gamma-Ray Bursts during the Prompt Phase / C. D. Dermer |
| Spectral Modeling of GRB Pulses / H. Papathanassiou |
| Time Profiles and Spectral Evolution of GRB Pulses / E. Liang ; A. Crider ; M. Bottcher ; I. Smith |
| Constraints on the Internal Shock Model from the Temporal Analysis of GRBs / M. Spada ; A. Panaitescu |
| A Plasma Instability Theory of Prompt Gamma-Ray Burst Radiation |
| Emission of Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts in the GeV-TeV Energy Domain / E. V. Derishev ; V. V. Kocharovsky ; Vl. V. Kocharovsky |
| Synchrotron Radiation as the Source of GRB Spectra, Part I: Theory |
| Comparisons between Analytic and Numerical Calculations of GRB Spectra / J. Chiang |
| Evaluating Spectral Functions Used to Test the Synchrotron Shock Model |
| Redshifts and Compton Attenuation |
| An Eigenfunction Method for Particle Acceleration at Ultra-relativistic Shocks / A. W. Guthmann ; J. G. Kirk ; Y. A. Gallant ; A. Achterberg |
| The Synchrotron Spectrum of Fast Cooling Electrons Revisited / J. Granot |
| Flow-Field Dependent Variation Method for Complex Relativistic Fluids / G. A. Richardson ; T. J. Chung ; G. R. Karr |
| A Unified Picture for the Various Total Energies of GRBs / T. Totani |
| Afterglow Emission Mechanisms |
| Beaming and Jets in Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| Photospheres, Comptonization and X-Ray Lines in Gamma-Ray Bursts |
| Modeling the Iron Line in GRB Afterglows |
| Particle Acceleration at Ultra-relativistic Shocks and the Spectra of Relativistic Fireballs |
| Afterglow Lightcurves from Beamed Outflows / A. Majczyna ; T. Bulik ; R. Moderski ; M. Sikora |
| The Patchy Shells Model / P. Kumar |
| Hydrodynamics and Radiation from a Relativistic Expanding Jet with Applications to GRB Afterglow / M. Miller ; W.-M. Suen |
| Early GRB Afterglows from Relativistic Blast Waves in General Radiative Regimes |
| Optical Flashes and Radio Flares in GRB Afterglows: Numerical Study / S. Kobayashi |
| Central Engine |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts: The Central Engine / S. E. Woosley |
| 2D Hydrodynamic Simulations of Relativistic Jets from Collapsars / E. Muller ; M. A. Angel Aloy ; J. M[superscript a] Ibanez ; J. M[superscript a] Marti ; A. MacFadyen |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts via Pair Plasma Fireballs from Heated Neutron Stars / J. D. Salmonson ; J. R. Wilson ; G. J. Mathews |
| Asymmetric Neutron Star Coalescences: Implications for GRBs / S. Rosswog ; M. B. Davies ; F.-K. Thielemann |
| Mass-Loss from a Magnetically Driven Wind Emitted by a Disk Orbiting a Steller-Mass Black Hole / F. Daigne ; R. Mochkovitch |
| Fireballs from Collapse of Neutron Stars Induced by Primordial Black Holes / VI. V. Kocharovsky |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts from Rapidly Spinning Neutron Stars / H. C. Spruit |
| Red Hole Gamma-Ray Bursts: A New Gravitational Collapse Paradigm Explains the Peak Energy Distribution and Solves the GRB Energy Crisis / J. S. Graber |
| Electric GRBs / L. Kortvelyessy |
| A Ritzian Interpretation of Variable Stars / R. S. Fritzius |
| Supernova Connections--Theoretical |
| The Connection between Supernovae and Gamma-Ray Bursts: On the Distribution of the Circumstellar Matter / R. A. Chevalier |
| The Type Ib/c Supernova, Gamma-Ray Burst, Soft Gamma-Ray Repeater, Magnetar Connection / J. C. Wheeler ; P. Hoflich ; L. Wang ; I. Yi |
| Properties of Hypernovae: SNe 1997ef, 1998bw, and 1997cy / K. Nomoto ; K. Maeda ; K. Iwamoto ; T. Suzuki ; P. A. Mazzali ; M. Turatto ; I. J. Danziger ; F. Patat |
| Is Nova Sco 1994 (GRO 1655-40) a Relic of a GRB? / G. E. Brown ; C.-H. Lee ; H. K. Lee ; H. A. Bethe |
| Collapsars |
| Progenitors |
| Looking for GRB Progenitors / K. Belczynski ; B. Rudak |
| Making Accretion Disks around Black Holes: GRB Progenitors / C. L. Fryer ; W. Zhang |
| Distribution of Binary Mergers around Galaxies |
| GRBs as Cosmological Probes |
| The Most Distant Gamma-Ray Bursts / A. I. MacFadyen |
| Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of the Very High Redshift Universe |
| Gamma-Ray Burst Lensing Limits on Cosmological Parameters / K. C. Hurley |
| Instrumentation / V.： |
| Future Flight Experiments |
| The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Midex |
| Observing Gamma-Ray Bursts with Intergal |
| The Integral Burst Alert System / S. Mereghetti ; S. Brandt ; D. Jennings ; J. Borkowski ; R. Walter |
| Observations of Gamma-Ray Bursts with Maxi on the International Space Station / N. Kawai ; A. Yoshida ; T. Mihara ; H. Negoro ; Y. Shirasaki ; I. Sakurai ; M. Matsuoka ; K. Torii ; S. Ueno ; M. Sugizaki ; H. Tomida ; W. Yuan ; H. Tsunemi ; E. Miyata ; M. Yamauchi |
| Margie: A Gamma-Ray Burst Ultra-long Duration Balloon Mission / J. Matteson ; M. Cherry ; P. Altice ; T. G. Guzik ; S. C. Kappadath ; J. Buckley ; P. Hink ; J. Macri ; J. Ryan ; T. O'Neill ; A. Zych |
| A New X-Ray Telescope for Monitoring the X-Ray Afterglows of GRBs / A. Inneman ; L. Pina ; P. Gorenstein |
| Estimation of GRB Detection by FiberGLAST / S. Phengchamnan ; K. Aisaka ; M. Atac ; W. R. Binns ; J. H. Buckley ; M. L. Cherry ; D. Cline ; P. Dowkontt ; J. W. Epstein ; M. H. Finger ; P. L. Hink ; M. H. Israel ; M. L. McConnell ; Y. Pischalnikov ; T. A. Parnell ; K. Rielage ; T. O. Tumer ; D. B. Wallace ; R. B. Wilson |
| Current Flight Experiments |
| A Robust Filter for the BeppoSAX Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor Triggers / C. L. Bianco ; F. Lazzarotto ; A. Mattei ; G. Ventura |
| GRB Localization with the BeppoSAX Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor / B. Preger |
| Response Function of the Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GRBM) Onboard the BeppoSAX Satellite / F. Calura ; M. Rapisarda ; E. Montanari ; P. Collina |
| Progress Incorporating the Near Mission into the Interplanetary GRB Network / T. L. Cline ; S. Barthelmy ; P. Butterworth ; T. McClanahan ; D. Palmer ; J. Trombka ; R. Gold ; D. Frederiks ; S. Golenetskii ; E. Mazets |
| GRB Coordinates Network (GCN): A Status Report |
| Ground-Based Experiments |
| Super-Lotis Early Time Optical Counterpart Measurements / R. M. Bionta ; D. Hartmann ; W. Pereira |
| Rapid, Deep GRB Observations with the U.S. Naval Observatory 1.3-m Wide-Field Telescope / F. J. Vrba ; H. C. Harris ; B. Canzian ; A. A. Henden ; S. E. Levine ; C. B. Luginbuhl ; M. C. Jennings |
| Tarot-2: A Versatile Large Observatory for Optical Transients |
| Milagro: A TeV Observatory for Gamma-Ray Bursts / B. G. Yodh |
| Searching for Optical and High-Energy Transients from Gamma-Ray Bursts Simultaneously with Cerenkov Telescopes / G. Beskin ; S. Biryukov ; D. Eichler ; D. Faiman |
| Soft Gamma Repeaters / VI.： |
| X-Ray/Gamma-Ray Observations |
| The 4.5[plus or minus]0.5 Soft Gamma Repeaters in Review |
| BeppoSAX and Ulysses Data on the Giant Flare from SGR 1900+14 / R. Duncan ; C. Thompson |
| The Hard Side of SGR 1900+14 / P. M. Woods ; E. Gogus ; R. C. Duncan |
| Spin Period and Burst Rate History of SGR 1900+14 / T. Strohmayer ; J. Swank ; T. Murakami |
| Deep Searches for Pulsations in SGR 1627-41 and 0526-66 / M. Ando ; P. Li ; P. Woods ; M. Tsujimoto |
| Soft Gamma Repeaters as Relaxation Systems / D. M. Palmer |
| Statistical Properties of SGR 1900+14 Bursts |
| Optical/Infrared Observations |
| Optical Imaging of the SGR 1627-41 Error Box during the SGR Activity in June 1998 / N. Lund ; D. Pinfield |
| Rapid Optical Follow-up Observations of SGR Events with ROTSE-I / R. Balsano ; C. Akerlof ; J. Bloch ; D. Casperson ; S. Fletcher ; J. Hills ; R. Kehoe ; B. Lee ; S. Marshall ; T. McKay ; A. Pawl ; W. Priedhorsky ; N. Seldomridge ; J. Szymanski ; J. Wren |
| Search for Photometric Variability in the Vicinity of SGR 1900+14 and Discovery of a High-Mass Cluster / H. H. Guetter |
| Soft Gamma-Ray Repeaters in Clusters of Massive Stars / I. F. Mirabel ; Y. Fuchs |
| ISO Observation of a Fraction of the SGR 1801-23 Error Box / L. Metcalfe ; R. Laureijs |
| Optical/Near-IR Observations of SGR 1900+14 during the May-June and Aug-Sep 1998 Active Periods / S. Beckwith ; D. Kelson ; T. Kerr ; C. Lazaro ; S. Madruga |
| NIR Spectroscopic Observations of the SGR 1900+14 M Stars / E. W. Guenther |
| Physics in Ultra-strong Magnetic Fields |
| Magnetic Field Limits on SGRs / R. E. Rothschild ; D. Marsden ; R. E. Lingenfelter |
| Environmental Influences in SGRs and AXPs / R. Lingenfelter ; R. Rothschild ; J. Higdon |
| Relativistic Compton Scattering in Ultra-strong Magnetic Fields / P. L. Gonthier ; R. M. Costello ; C. L. Mercer ; A. K. Harding ; M. G. Baring |
| Nuclear Equation of State and Internal Structure of Magnetars / I.-S. Suh |
| New QED Calculations for Processes in Strong Magnetic Fields / D. Leahy ; L. Semionova |
| Electric Magnetars |
| Techniques and Miscellany / VII.： |
| Attributes of GRB Pulses: An Improved Bayesian Blocks Algorithm for Binned Data / J. D. Scargle ; J. Norris ; G. Marani ; J. Bonnell |
| A GRB Tool Shed |
| Properties of Karhunen-Loeve Expansion of Astronomical Images in Comparison with Other Integral Transforms |
| Fast and Simple Data Compression |
| Accuracy of Press Reports on Gamma-Ray Astronomy |
| Symposium Participants |
| Author Index |
