The optical counterpart to the γ-ray burst GRB970508

Nature

Volumn 387, Issue 6636, 1997, Pages 876-878

  Djorgovski, S G ^a   Metzger, M R ^a   Kulkarni, S R ^a   Odewahn, S C ^a   Gal, R R ^a   Pahre, M A ^a   Frail, D A ^b   Feroci, M ^c   Costa, E ^c   Palazzi, E ^d  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^d CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; IMAGE PROCESSING; LUMINANCE; MATHEMATICAL MODEL; PHOTOMETRY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X IRRADIATION;

EID: 0030809514     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/43126     Document Type: Article

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