New imaging and spectroscopy of the locations of several short-hard gamma-ray bursts

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 686, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 408-416

  Gal Yam, Avishay ^a   Nakar, Ehud ^b   Ofek, Eran O ^b   Cenko, S B ^b   Kulkarni, S R ^b   Soderberg, A M ^b   Harrison, F ^b   Fox, D B ^c   Price, P A ^d   Penprase, B E ^e   Frail, Dale A ^f   Atteia, J L ^g   Berger, E ^h   Gladders, M ^h   Mulchaey, J ^h  

^a WEIZMANN INSTITUTE OF SCIENCE   (Israel)

^b California Institute of Technology   (United States)

^c PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^e POMONA COLLEGE   (United States)

^f NATIONAL RADIO ASTRONOMY OBSERVATORY   (United States)

^g UNIVERSITÉ DE TOULOUSE   (France)

^h CARNEGIE OBSERVATORIES   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts

Indexed keywords

EID: 53849132754     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/590947     Document Type: Article

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