Transient optical emission from the error box of the γ-ray burst of 28 february 1997

Nature

Volumn 386, Issue 6626, 1997, Pages 686-689

  Van Paradijs, J ^a,b   Groot, P J ^a   Galama, T ^a   Kouveliotou, C ^c,d   Strom, R G ^a,e   Telting, J ^e,f   Rutten, R G M ^e,f   Fishman, G J ^d   Meegan, C A ^d   Pettini, M ^g   Tanvir, N ^h   Bloom, J ^h   Pedersen, H ⁱ   Nordgaard Nielsen H U ^j   Linden Vornle M ^j   Melnick, J ^k   Van Der Steene, G ^k   Bremer, M ^l   Naber, R ^m   Heise, J ⁿ   In't Zand, J ⁿ   Costa, E ^o   Feroci, M ^o   Piro, L ^o   Frontera, F ^p   Zavattini, G ^p   Nicastro, L ^q   Palazzi, E ^q   Bennet, K ^r   Hanlon, L ^s   Parmar, A ^r   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e ASTRON   (Netherlands)

^f ISAAC NEWTON GROUP OF TELESCOPES   (Spain)

^g ROYAL GREENWICH OBSERVATORY   (United Kingdom)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CAMBRIDGE   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ Copenhagen University Observatory ^*  (Denmark)

^j TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

^k EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^l LEIDEN UNIVERSITY   (Netherlands)

^m UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

ⁿ SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^o INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTROFISICO DI TORINO   (Italy)

^p UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^q C N R   (Italy)

^r EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

^s UNIVERSITY COLLEGE DUBLIN   (Ireland)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMOS; GAMMA RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 0030899762     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/386686a0     Document Type: Article

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