A putative early-type host galaxy for GRB 060502B: Implications for the progenitors of short-duration hard-spectrum bursts

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 654, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 878-884

  Bloom, J S ^a   Perley, D A ^a   Chen, H W ^b   Butler, N ^a   Prochaska, J X ^c   Kocevski, D ^a   Blake, C H ^d   Szentgyorgyi, A ^d   Falco, E E ^d   Starr, D L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

^c University of California at Santa Cruz   (United States)

^d HARVARD SMITHSONIAN CENTER FOR ASTROPHYSICS   (United States)

Author keywords

Astrometry; Galaxies: elliptical and lenticular, cD; Gamma rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 33846514695     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/509114     Document Type: Article

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