Discovery of a transient MeV range gamma-ray source

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 442, Issue 2, 1995, Pages 638-645

  Briggs, M S ^a,b   Gruber, D E ^a   Matteson, J L ^a   Peterson, L E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Galaxy: center; Gamma rays: bursts; X rays: stars

Indexed keywords

EID: 11944267560     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/175467     Document Type: Article

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