What is "bursters"

Usage examples of "bursters".

By the time the virus was discovered, it had already spread from the watch-posts to the orbital synchrotrons, corrupting their defensive protocols, so that they failed to fire when the swan bursters entered the system.

The outer posts had failed to detect the approach of twin swan bursters, and then the orbital synchrotrons failed to respond.

And should I study neutron stars, bursters, whatever the hell they are?

The lady meanwhile lures the mob, alike Ogles the bursters of the horn and drum.

The swan bursters had left the system, on trajectories roughly parallel to Null Boundary's.

Instead, the swan bursters remained aligned for twenty hours, and she shuddered to think of the energy costs such a maneuver would require.

Only gradually did he understand that he'd been exposed to stray dust released by the two swan bursters when they'd passed so close to one another.

The Chenzeme vessels called swan bursters were perfect ring shapes too.

Far, far smaller than the gigantic swan bursters suggested by its ring shape.

He remembered how it had been at Heyertori, when he'd realized the swan bursters were behind him.

The preferred model describing bursters invoked a big black hole swallowing something else quite substantial, like a massive star.

Studying gamma-ray bursters was now not merely international but interplanetary, if one counted the many robot observers orbiting in the solar system.

As the swan bursters drew near to Heyertori itself, they sent out a massive information dump—everything they knew, and everything they believed, cast into the void in the hope that some other world would chance to pick it up.

Kingsley had used it with speed and ingenuity decades before, explaining gamma-ray bursters quite handily with a little imagination and detailed calculations.