Extended power-law decays in batse gamma-ray bursts: Signatures of external shocks

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 570, Issue 2 I, 2002, Pages 573-587

  Giblin, T W ^a,b,c   Connaughton, V ^a,b   Van Paradijs, J ^a,d   Preece, R D ^a,b   Briggs, M S ^a,b   Kouveliotou, C ^b,e   Wijers, R A M J ^f   Fishman, G J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^c School of Business   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^e UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^f STONY BROOK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 0010657510     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/339622     Document Type: Article

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