A study of compact object mergers as short gamma-ray burst progenitors

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 648, Issue 2 I, 2006, Pages 1110-1116

  Belczynski, Krzysztof ^a,b   Perna, Rosalba ^c   Bulik, Tomasz ^d,e   Kalogera, Vassiliki ^f   Ivanova, Natalia ^g   Lamb, Donald Q ^h  

^a NEW MEXICO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Tombaugh ^*

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

^e NICOLAUS COPERNICUS ASTRONOMICAL CENTER   (Poland)

^f NORTHWESTERN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITY OF TORONTO   (Canada)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

Author keywords

Binaries: close; Black hole physics; Gamma rays: bursts; Stars: evolution; Stars: formation; Stars: neutron

Indexed keywords

EID: 33750574754     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/505169     Document Type: Article

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