The unusual γ-ray burst GRB 101225A from a helium star/neutron star merger at redshift 0.33

Nature

Volumn 480, Issue 7375, 2011, Pages 72-74

  Thone C C ^a,b   De Ugarte Postigo, A ^b   Fryer, C L ^c   Page, K L ^d   Gorosabel, J ^a   Aloy, M A ^e   Perley, D A ^f   Kouveliotou, C ^g   Janka, H T ^h   Mimica, P ^e   Racusin, J L ⁱ   Krimm, H ^i,j,k   Cummings, J ⁱ   Oates, S R ^l   Holland, S T ^i,j,k   Siegel, M H ^m   De Pasquale, M ^l   Sonbas, E ^i,j,n   Im, M ^o   Park, W K ^o   Kann, D A ^p   Guziy, S ^a,q   García, L Hernández ^a   Llorente, A ^r   Bundy, K ^f   Choi, C ^o   Jeong, H ^s   Korhonen, H ^b,t   Kubanek P ^a,u   Lim, J ^s   Moskvitin, A ^v   Munoz Darias T ^w   Pak, S ^s   Parrish, I ^f   more..

^a INSTITUTO DE ASTROFÍSICA DE ANDALUCÍA CSIC   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^e UNIVERSITY OF VALENCIA   (Spain)

^f UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^g NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^h MAX PLANCK INSTITUT FÜR ASTROPHYSIK   (Germany)

ⁱ NASA GODDARD SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^j UNIVERSITIES SPACE RESEARCH ASSOCIATION   (United States)

^k Center for Research and Exploration in Space Science and Technology (CRESST)   (United States)

^l UNIVERSITY COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^m PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

ⁿ UNIVERSITY OF ADIYAMAN   (Turkey)

^o Seoul National University   (South Korea)

^p THÜRINGER LANDESSTERNWARTE TAUTENBURG   (Germany)

^q Nikolaev National University   (Ukraine)

^r EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Spain)

^s Kyung Hee University   (South Korea)

^t UNIVERSITY OF TURKU   (Finland)

^u INSTITUTE OF PHYSICS   (Czech Republic)

^v RUSSIAN ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (Russian Federation)

^w INAF OSSERVATORIO ASTRONOMICO DI BRERA   (Italy)

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Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HELIUM; HYDROGEN;

EMISSION; ENERGY EFFICIENCY; GAMMA RAY RADIATION; HELIUM; HYDROGEN; OPTICAL METHOD; SPECTRAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATURE EFFECT;

ARTICLE; ASTRONOMY; BARYON; FIELD EMISSION; GAMMA RADIATION; NEUTRON; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; THERMAL ANALYSIS; ULTRAVIOLET RADIATION; X RAY;

EID: 82555181638     PISSN: 00280836     EISSN: 14764687     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1038/nature10611     Document Type: Article

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