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The afterglow and elliptical host galaxy of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 050724

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2005

Authors

Berger, Edo
Price, Paul Antony
Cenko, Stephen B
Gal-Yam, Avishay
Soderberg, A M
Kasliwal, M M
Leonard, D C
Cameron, P B
Frail, Dale A
Kulkarni, Shrinivas R

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Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Abstract

Despite a rich phenomenology, γ-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided1 into two classes based on their duration and spectral hardness - the long-soft and the short-hard bursts. The discovery of afterglow emission from long GRBs was a watershed event, pinpointing

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Keywords: Galaxies; Jets; Optical collimators; Watersheds; Short-hard burst; Spectral hardness; Gamma rays; gamma ray radiation; article; cosmos; energy; environment; gamma radiation; infrared radiation; phenomenology; priority journal; radiation energy; X ray

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/80252

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Open Access Research

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Nature

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Journal article

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10.1038/nature04238

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