The energetic afterglow of the γ-ray burst of 14 December 1997

Nature

Volumn 393, Issue 6680, 1998, Pages 43-46

  Ramaprakash, A N ^a,b   Kulkarni, S R ^a   Frail, D A ^c   Koresko, C ^a   Kuchner, M ^a   Goodrich, R ^d   Neugebauer, G ^a   Murphy, T ^a   Eikenberry, S ^a   Bloom, J S ^a   Djorgovski, S G ^a   Waxman, E ^e   Frontera, F ^f,g   Feroci, M ^f   Nicastro, L ^f  

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

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

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^e INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^f CNR   (Italy)

^g UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; INFRARED RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION DETECTION;

EID: 0032492892     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/29941     Document Type: Article

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