The possible impact of gamma-ray burst detector thresholds on cosmological standard candles

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 411, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 1843-1856

  Shahmoradi, A ^a   Nemiroff, R J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma ray burst: general; Gamma rays: observations

Indexed keywords

GAMMA RAYS; LUMINANCE; PHOTONS;

DETECTION THRESHOLD; GAMMA RAYS BURSTS; GAMMA-RAY BURST: GENERALS; GAMMA-RAYS:OBSERVATIONS; INEFFICIENT DETECTORS; LARGE AREA DETECTOR; PHOTON COUNT; RED SHIFT; SPECTRA'S; SPECTRUM PEAKS;

STARS;

EID: 79951698787     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.17805.x     Document Type: Article

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