The optical afterglow of the short γ-ray burst GRB 050709

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7060, 2005, Pages 859-861

  Hjorth, Jens ^a   Watson, Darach ^a   Fynbo, Johan P U ^a   Price, Paul A ^b   Jensen, Brian L ^a   Jørgensen, Uffe G ^a   Kubas, Daniel ^c   Gorosabel, Javier ^d   Jakobsson, Páll ^a   Sollerman, Jesper ^a,e   Pedersen, Kristian ^a   Kouveliotou, Chryssa ^f  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^c EUROPEAN SOUTHERN OBSERVATORY   (Chile)

^d INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^e STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^f NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; OPTICAL SYSTEMS; SYNCHROTRON RADIATION; X RAYS;

BLUE DWARF GALAXY; OPTICAL AFTERGLOW; OPTICAL DETECTION; SYNCHROTRON EMISSION;

GAMMA RAYS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ARTICLE; CAMERA; FLAME PHOTOMETRY; GAMMA RADIATION; LUMINANCE; OPTICAL DENSITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 27144451900     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04174     Document Type: Article

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