The bright optical afterglow of the nearby γ-ray burst of 29 March 2003

Nature

Volumn 423, Issue 6942, 2003, Pages 844-847

  Price, P A ^a   Fox, D W ^b   Kulkarni, S R ^b   Peterson, B A ^a   Schmidt, B P ^a   Soderberg, A M ^b   Yost, S A ^b   Berger, E ^b   Djorgovski, S G ^b   Frall, D A ^c   Harrison, F A ^b   Sari, R ^b   Blain, A W ^b   Chapman, S C ^b  

^a AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; COSMIC RAYS; EXPLOSIONS; LIGHT EMISSION;

COSMOLOGY; GAMMA RAY BURSTS (GRB);

GAMMA RAYS;

ASTRONOMY; GAMMA RAY RADIATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMOS; GAMMA RADIATION; IMAGING; LUMINANCE; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 0037967241     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature01734     Document Type: Article

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