The afterglow, redshift and extreme energetics of the γ-ray burst of 23 January 1999
Djorgovski, S. G. ; Odewahn, S. C. ; Bloom, J. S. ; Gal, R. R. ; Koresko, C. D. ; Harrison, F. A. ; Lubin, L. M. ; Armus, L. ; Sari, R. ; Illingworth, G. D. ; Kelson, D. D. ; Magee, D. K. ; Dokkum, P. G. van ; Frail, D. A. ; Mulchaey, J. S. ; Malkan, M. A. ; McClean, I. S. ; Teplitz, H. I. ; Koerner, D. ; Kirkpatrick, D. ; Kobayashi, N. ; Yadigaroglu, I.-A. ; Halpern, J. ; Piran, T. ; Goodrich, R. W.
[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd.
Published 1999
[s.l.] : Macmillan Magazines Ltd.
Published 1999
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1476-4687
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Nature Archives 1869 - 2009
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Biology
Chemistry and Pharmacology
Medicine
Natural Sciences in General
Physics
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[Auszug] Long-lived emission, known as afterglow, has now been detected from about a dozen γ-ray bursts. Distance determinations place the bursts at cosmological distances, with redshifts, z, ranging from ∼1 to 3. The energy required to produce these bright γ-ray flashes is enormous: up ...
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