Constraints on the diverse progenitors of GRBs from the large-scale environments

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 836, Issue , 2006, Pages 473-482

  Bloom, J S ^a   Prochaska, J X ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b University of California Santa Cruz   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies; Gamma ray bursts short hard subclass

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746878010     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2207943     Document Type: Conference Paper

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