Using batse observations to test the compton attenuation spectral theory of cosmological gamma-ray bursts

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 501, Issue 1 PART I, 1998, Pages 325-338

  Brainerd, J J ^a,b   Preece, R D ^a,b   Briggs, M S ^a,b   Pendleton, G N ^a,b   Paciesas, W S ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^b NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Methods: statistical; Radiation mechanisms: nonthermal; X rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 26144463773     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/305786     Document Type: Article

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