The afterglow of GRB 050709 and the nature of the short-hard γ-ray bursts

Nature

Volumn 437, Issue 7060, 2005, Pages 845-850

  Fox, D B ^a,b   Frail, D A ^c   Price, P A ^d   Kulkarni, S R ^a   Berger, E ^e   Piran, T ^a,f   Soderberg, A M ^a   Cenko, S B ^a   Cameron, P B ^a   Gal Yam, A ^a   Kasliwal, M M ^a   Moon, D S ^a   Harrison, F A ^a   Nakar, E ^a   Schmidt, B P ^g   Penprase, B ^h   Chevalier, R A ⁱ   Kumar, P ^j   Roth, K ^k   Watson, D ^l   Lee, B L ^m   Shectman, S ^e   Phillips, M M ^e   Roth, M ^e   McCarthy, P J ^e   Rauch, M ^e   Cowie, L ^d   Peterson, B A ^g   Rich, J ^g   Kawai, N ⁿ   Aoki, K ^o   Kosugi, G ^o   Totani, T ^p   Park, H S ^q   MacFadyen, A ^r   Hurley, K C ^s   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^f HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^g AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^h POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

ⁱ UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^k GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^m UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

ⁿ TOKYO INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Japan)

^o NATIONAL ASTRONOMICAL OBSERVATORY OF JAPAN   (Japan)

^p KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^q LAWRENCE LIVERMORE NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^r INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^s UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; GALVANIZING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; NEUTRONS; X RAYS;

AFTERGLOW EMISSION; BLACK-HOLE BINARY SYSTEMS; MAGNETARS; STELLAR POPULATIONS;

GAMMA RAYS;

ASTROPHYSICS;

ACCURACY; ARTICLE; COSMOS; ENERGY; GAMMA RADIATION; OPTICS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; X RAY;

EID: 27144552734     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature04189     Document Type: Article

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