Low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts as a unique population: Luminosity function, local rate, and beaming factor

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 662, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 1111-1118

  Liang, Enwei ^a,b   Zhang, Bing ^a   Virgili, Francisco ^a   Dai, Z G ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEVADA   (United States)

^b GUANGXI UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c NANJING UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Gamma rays: observations; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547287004     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/517959     Document Type: Article

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