On the origin of gamma-ray bursts

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

Volumn 366, Issue 1884, 2008, Pages 4405-4416

  Ryde, Felix ^a  

^a ALBANOVA UNIVERSITY CENTER   (Sweden)

Author keywords

Gamma rays bursts; Non thermal emission; Thermal emission

Indexed keywords

COSMOLOGY; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVES; GAMMA RAYS; IONIZING RADIATION; STARS;

BROKEN POWER LAWS; COMPONENT MODELS; COSMOLOGICAL DISTANCES; ENERGY FLUXES; GAMMA-RAY; GAMMA-RAYS BURSTS; NON-THERMAL EMISSION; OUT-FLOWS; PHOTON SPECTRUMS; POWER LAWS; PULSE STRUCTURES; RELATIVISTIC OUTFLOWS; SPECTRAL COMPONENTS; THERMAL EMISSION;

EMISSION SPECTROSCOPY;

PHOTON; TEMPERATURE; THEORETICAL MODEL;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; PHOTONS; TEMPERATURE;

EID: 55849151676     PISSN: 1364503X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1098/rsta.2008.0155     Document Type: Article

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