Detection of Wolf-Rayet stars in host galaxies of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs): Are GRBs produced by runaway massive stars ejected from high stellar density regions?

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 454, Issue 1, 2006, Pages 103-111

  Hammer, F ^a   Flores, H ^a   Schaerer, D ^b,c   Dessauges Zavadsky, M ^b   Le Floc'h, E ^d,e   Puech, M ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS DIDEROT   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE GENÈVE   (Switzerland)

^c IRAP   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ARIZONA   (United States)

^e OBSERVATOIRE DE PARIS   (France)

Author keywords

Cosmology: observations; Galaxies: abundances; Galaxies: stellar content; Gamma rays: bursts galaxies: general; Stars: Wolf Rayet

Indexed keywords

ASTRONOMY; ASTROPHYSICS; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER; SPECTROSCOPY; VELOCITY;

COSMOLOGY: OBSERVATIONS; GALAXIES: ABUNDANCES; GALAXIES: STELLAR CONTENT; GAMMA RAYS: BURSTS GALAXIES: GENERAL; STARS: WOLF-RAYET;

GALAXIES;

EID: 33746366495     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20064823     Document Type: Article

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