Swift observations of GRB 050904: The most distant cosmic explosion ever observed

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 462, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 73-80

  Cusumano, G ^a   Mangano, V ^a   Chincarini, G ^b,c   Panaitescu, A ^d   Burrows, D N ^e   La Parola, V ^a   Sakamoto, T ^f,g   Campana, S ^b   Mineo, T ^a   Tagliaferri, G ^b   Angelini, L ^f   Barthelmy, S D ^f   Beardmore, A P ^h   Boyd, P T ^f   Cominsky, L R ⁱ   Gronwall, C ^e   Fenimore, E E ^d   Gehrels, N ^f   Giommi, P ^j   Goad, M ^h   Hurley, K ^k   Immler, S ^f   Kennea, J A ^e   Mason, K O ^l   Marshal, F ^f   Meszaros P ^e   Nousek, J A ^e   Osborne, J P ^h   Palmer, D M ^d   Roming, P W A ^e   Wells, A ^h   White, N E ^f   Zhang, B ^m   more..

^a INAF IASF PALERMO   (Italy)

^b INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MILANO BICOCCA   (Italy)

^d LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^e PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^f NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^g NATIONAL RESEARCH COUNCIL   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

ⁱ SONOMA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^j ASI SCIENCE DATA CENTER   (Italy)

^k UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^m UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Cosmology: early universe; Gamma rays: bursts; Gamma rays: observations; X rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

BAND STRUCTURE; GAMMA RAYS; SHOCK WAVES; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; X RAY APPARATUS;

COSMOLOGY; LIGHT CURVE MODELING; REDSHIFT; SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION; X-RAY TELESCOPE (XRT);

COSMIC RAYS;

EID: 33846474873     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361:20065173     Document Type: Article

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