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Bursts make new waves

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  • Bohdan Paczyski

    (Princeton University)

  • Chryssa Kouveliotou

    (the Universities Space Research Association at NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center)

Abstract

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been in the news this year, as it has become clear that these long-enigmatic and immensely violent astronomical events are occurring at cosmological distances — not, as might have been the case, in our Galaxy. A meeting to discuss these and more recent findings proved to be a historic event. As astronomers come to concentrate on the `how' rather than the `where' of this phenomenon, we should see the beginning of a new era in high-energy astrophysics — GRBs as another probe of cosmological distances in the early Universe.

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  • Bohdan Paczyski & Chryssa Kouveliotou, 1997. "Bursts make new waves," Nature, Nature, vol. 389(6651), pages 548-549, October.
    • Handle: RePEc:nat:nature:v:389:y:1997:i:6651:d:10.1038_39200
    DOI: 10.1038/39200
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