Two populations are better than one: Short gamma-ray bursts from SGR giant flares and NS-NS mergers

AIP Conference Proceedings

Volumn 983, Issue , 2008, Pages 304-306

  Chapman, Robert ^a   Priddey, Robert S ^a   Tanvir, Nial R ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HERTFORDSHIRE   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Gamma ray bursts; Giant flares; Magnetars; Neutron star binaries; SGR

Indexed keywords

EID: 40749162697     PISSN: 0094243X     EISSN: 15517616     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1063/1.2900172     Document Type: Conference Paper

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