On the possibility of identifying the short hard burst GRB 051103 with a giant flare from a soft gamma repeater in the M81 group of galaxies

Astronomy Letters

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 19-24

  Frederiks, D D ^a   Palshin, V D ^a   Aptekar, R L ^a   Golenetskii, S V ^a   Cline, T L ^b   Mazets, E P ^a  

^a IOFFE INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^b NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies; Gamma repeaters; Giant flares

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846144375     PISSN: 10637737     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1134/S1063773707010021     Document Type: Article

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