Gamma-ray burst theory after Swift

Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences

Volumn 365, Issue 1854, 2007, Pages 1151-1162

  Piran, Tsvi ^a   Fan, Yi Zhong ^a,b  

^a HEBREW UNIVERSITY OF JERUSALEM   (Israel)

^b CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

Author keywords

Black holes; Gamma ray bursts; Neutron stars; X ray

Indexed keywords

EID: 34247233201     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2006.1987     Document Type: Article

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