The afterglow, redshift and extreme energetics of the γ-ray burst of 23 January 1999

Nature

Volumn 398, Issue 6726, 1999, Pages 389-394

  Kulkarni, S R ^a   Djorgovski, S G ^a   Odewahn, S C ^a   Bloom, J S ^a   Gal, R R ^a   Koresko, C D ^a   Harrison, F A ^a   Lubln, L M ^a   Armus, L ^b   Sari, R ^c   Illingworth, G D ^d   Kelson, D D ^e   Magee, D K ^d   Van Dokkum, P G ^f   Frail, D A ^g   Mulchaey, J S ^h   Malkan, M A ⁱ   McClean, I S ⁱ   Teplitz, H I ^j   Koerner, D ^k   Kirkpatrick, D ^b   Kobayashi, N ^l   Yadigaroglu, I A ^m   Halpern, J ^m   Piran, T ^m   Goodrich, R W ⁿ   Chaffee, F H ⁿ   Feroci, M ^o   Costa, E ^o   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^d University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

^e GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^f UNIVERSITY OF GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

^g NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^j NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^k UNIVERSITY OF PENNSYLVANIA   (United States)

^l NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^m Och Spine at New York Presbyterian Hospitals   (United States)

ⁿ W M KECK OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^o CNR   (Italy)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; ENERGY TRANSFER; GAMMA RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPECTRAL SENSITIVITY;

EID: 0033119219     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/18821     Document Type: Article

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