Implications for the origin of short gamma-ray bursts from their observed positions around their host galaxies

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 413, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 2004-2014

  Church, Ross P ^a   Levan, Andrew J ^a,b   Davies, Melvyn B ^a   Tanvir, Nial ^c  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARWICK   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Binaries: general; Gamma ray burst: general

Indexed keywords

GALAXIES; GAMMA RAYS; MERGING; VELOCITY;

BINARIES:GENERAL; COMPACT OBJECTS; ELLIPTICAL GALAXIES; ELLIPTICALS; GAMMA RAYS BURSTS; GAMMA-RAY BURST: GENERALS; HOST GALAXIES; PROPERTY; SHORT DURATIONS; SPATIAL EXTENT;

STARS;

EID: 79955759632     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2011.18277.x     Document Type: Article

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