A new population of high-redshift short-duration gamma-ray bursts

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 664, Issue 2 I, 2007, Pages 1000-1010

  Berger, E ^a,b,c   Fox, D B ^d   Price, P A ^e   Nakar, E ^f   Gal Yam, A ^c,f   Holz, D E ^a,g,h   Schmidt, B P ⁱ   Cucchiara, A ^d   Cenko, S B ^j   Kulkarni, S R ^f   Soderberg, A M ^f   Frail, D A ^k   Penprase, B E ^l   Rau, A ^f   Ofek, E ^f   Bell Burnell, S J ^m   Cameron, P B ^f   Cowie, L L ^e   Dopita, M A ⁱ   Hook, I ^m   Peterson, B A ⁱ   Podsiadlowski, P ^m   Roth, K C ⁿ   Rutledge, R E ^o   Sheppard, S S ^p   Songaila, A ^e   more..

^a CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

^b PRINCETON UNIVERSITY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^c Hubble ^*  (United States)

^d PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^f California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^g LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^h UNIVERSITY OF CHICAGO   (United States)

ⁱ AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^j CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^k NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^l POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^m UNIVERSITY OF OXFORD   (United Kingdom)

ⁿ GEMINI OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^o MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^p GEOPHYSICAL LABORATORY   (United States)

more..

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 34547979694     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/518762     Document Type: Article

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