Identification of a host galaxy at redshift z = 3.42 for the γ-ray burst of 14 December 1997

Nature

Volumn 393, Issue 6680, 1998, Pages 35-39

  Kulkarni, S R ^a   Djorgovski, S G ^a   Ramaprakash, A N ^a,b   Goodrich, R ^c   Bloom, J S ^a   Adelberger, K L ^a   Kundic, T ^a   Lubin, L ^a   Frail, D A ^d   Frontera, F ^e,f   Feroci, M ^e   Nicastro, L ^e   Barth, A J ^g   Davis, M ^g   Filippenko, A V ^g   Newman, J ^g  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b INTER UNIVERSITY CENTRE FOR ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^c W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e CNR   (Italy)

^f UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; GAMMA RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0032492881     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29927     Document Type: Article

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