A novel explosive process is required for the γ-ray burst GRB 060614

Nature

Volumn 444, Issue 7122, 2006, Pages 1053-1055

  Gal Yam, A ^a   Fox, D B ^b   Price, P A ^c   Ofek, E O ^a   Davis, M R ^d   Leonard, D C ^d   Soderberg, A M ^a   Schmidt, B P ^e   Lewis, K M ^e   Peterson, B A ^e   Kulkarni, S R ^a   Berger, E ^f,g   Cenko, S B ^a   Sari, R ^a   Sharon, K ^h   Frail, D ⁱ   Moon, D S ^a   Brown, P J ^b   Cucchiara, A ^b   Harrison, F ^a   Piran, T ^j   Persson, S E ^f,g   McCarthy, P J ^f,g   Penprase, B E ^k   Chevalier, R A ^l   MacFadyen, A I ^m,n   more..

^a CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^d SAN DIEGO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^g PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^h TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

ⁱ NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^j HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^k POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY OF VIRGINIA   (United States)

^m INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

ⁿ NEW YORK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASTROPHYSICS; EXPLOSIVE; GAMMA RAY RADIATION;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; COSMIC RADIATION; EXPLOSION; GAMMA RADIATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIATION PROCESSING; RADIOACTIVITY; X RAY;

EID: 33845887187     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature05373     Document Type: Article

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