Everything about Fireball (nickname)

🧭 Start here: a 6-step reading path

1. Read the overview: Fireball (nickname)A 5-minute orientation
2. Skim a recent paper: X-ray detection of a nova in the fireball phaseInfluential work since 2022
3. Pick up a classic book: Nursery on NeptuneThe most-reprinted book on the subject
4. Read the landmark paper: Gamma-ray bursts and the fireball modelCited 1,252 times
5. Go sideways: Yank (nickname)A closely related topic
6. Go sideways: Bump (nickname)A closely related topic

🏆 Landmark papers (most cited)

• Gamma-ray bursts and the fireball model

  Tsvi Piran · 1999 · Physics Reports · 1,252 citations

• Nuclear Fireball Model for Proton Inclusive Spectra from Relativistic Heavy-Ion Collisions

  G. D. Westfall, J. Gosset, P. J. Johansen · 1976 · Physical Review Letters · 459 citations

• Shocked by GRB 970228: the afterglow of a cosmological fireball

  R. A. M. J. Wijers, M. J. Rees, P. Meszaros · 1997 · Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society · 376 citations

• GRB 990123: The Optical Flash and the Fireball Model

  Re'em Sari, Tsvi Piran · 1999 · The Astrophysical Journal · 314 citations

• Gamma-Ray–Burst Afterglow: Supporting the Cosmological Fireball Model, Constraining Parameters, and Making Predictions

  Eli Waxman · 1997 · The Astrophysical Journal · 279 citations

• Testing the Standard Fireball Model of Gamma‐Ray Bursts Using Late X‐Ray Afterglows Measured by Swift

  R. Willingale, P. T. O’Brien, J. P. Osborne · 2007 · The Astrophysical Journal · 257 citations

• A Study of the Afterglows of Four Gamma‐Ray Bursts: Constraining the Explosion and Fireball Model

  S. A. Yost, F. A. Harrison, R. Sari · 2003 · The Astrophysical Journal · 249 citations

• Images and Spectra from the Interior of a Relativistic Fireball

  Jonathan Granot, Tsvi Piran, Re'em Sari · 1999 · The Astrophysical Journal · 240 citations

🆕 Influential since 2022

• X-ray detection of a nova in the fireball phase

  Ole König, Jörn Wilms, Riccardo Arcodia · 2022 · Nature · 52 citations

• Data on 824 fireballs observed by the digital cameras of the European Fireball Network in 2017–2018

  J. Borovička, P. Spurný, L. Shrbený · 2022 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 48 citations

• Full-scale tunnel experiments: Blast wave and fireball evolution following hydrogen tank rupture

  S. Kudriakov, E. Studer, G. Bernard-Michel · 2022 · International Journal of Hydrogen Energy · 42 citations

• Data on 824 fireballs observed by the digital cameras of the European Fireball Network in 2017–2018

  J. Borovička, P. Spurný, L. Shrbený · 2022 · Astronomy & Astrophysics · 34 citations

• A Meteor of Apparent Interstellar Origin in the CNEOS Fireball Catalog

  Amir Siraj, Abraham Loeb · 2022 · The Astrophysical Journal · 28 citations

📚 Books worth reading

• Nursery on NeptuneTommy Donbavand · 2015
• 📕FireballsTsvi Piran · 1993
• Monsters on Mercury (Space Hoppers)Tommy Donbavand · 2014
• 📕The Fireball XL5 filesJohn Peel · 1987
• Franny and the Fireballs (German Edition)Ralf Hartmann, Knut Hartmann · 2005
• Space Hoppers Silence on SaturnTommy Donbavand · 2014
• 📕LAST STAND of the WOLVES - an Oracle · 2012
• Contemporary musiciansLeigh Ann DeRemer, Luann Brennan · 2000

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