The redshift distribution of short gamma-ray bursts from dynamically formed neutron star binaries

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 643, Issue 2 II, 2006, Pages

  Hopman, Clovis ^a   Guetta, Dafne ^a,b   Waxman, Eli ^a   Zwart, Simon Portegies ^c  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI ROMA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Gamma rays: bursts; Gravitational waves; Stars: neutron

Indexed keywords

EID: 33746889055     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505141     Document Type: Article

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