Prompt optical observations of gamma-ray bursts

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 532, Issue 1 PART 2, 2000, Pages

  Akerlof, Carl ^a   Balsano, Richard ^b   Barthelmy, Scott ^c   Bloch, Jeff ^b   Butterworth, Paul ^c   Casperson, Don ^b   Cline, Tom ^c   Fletcher, Sandra ^b   Frontera, Fillippo ^d   Gisler, Galen ^b   Heise, John ^e   Hills, Jack ^b   Hurley, Kevin ^f   Kehoe, Robert ^a   Lee, Brian ^a,g   Marshall, Stuart ^h   McKay, Tim ^a   Pawl, Andrew ^a   Piro, Luigi ⁱ   Szymanski, John ^b   Wren, Jim ^b   more..

^a UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^b LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^c NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF FERRARA   (Italy)

^e SRON NETHERLANDS INSTITUTE FOR SPACE RESEARCH   (Netherlands)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g FERMI NATIONAL ACCELERATOR LABORATORY   (United States)

^h LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

ⁱ INAF IASF ROMA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Gamma rays: observations

Indexed keywords

EID: 17144462926     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/312567     Document Type: Article

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