Hardness as a spectral peak estimator for gamma-ray bursts

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 407, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 2075-2090

  Shahmoradi, A ^a   Nemiroff, R J ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma; Ray burst: general

Indexed keywords

HARDNESS; MARKOV PROCESSES; MONTE CARLO METHODS; MULTIVARIANT ANALYSIS;

CORRELATION STRENGTH; FLUENCES; GAMMA RAYS BURSTS; HARDNESS RATIO; IN-CHANNELS; RAY BURST: GENERAL; SIMPLE++; SPECTRA'S; SPECTRAL PEAK; SPECTRAL PEAK ENERGIES;

GAMMA RAYS;

EID: 80051995137     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16793.x     Document Type: Article

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