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The Bright Optical Afterglow of the Nearby Gamma-ray Burst of 29 March 2003

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2003

Authors

Price, Paul
Fox, Derek B
Kulkarni, Shrinivas R
Peterson, Bruce
Schmidt, Brian
Soderberg, A M
Yost, S A
Berger, Edo
Djorgovski, S G
Frail, Dale A

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Macmillan Publishers Ltd

Abstract

Past studies of cosmological γ-ray bursts (GRBs) have been hampered by their extreme distances, resulting in faint afterglows. A nearby GRB could potentially shed much light on the origin of these events, but GRBs with a redshift z ≤ 0.2 have been esti

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Keywords: Astrophysics; Cosmic rays; Explosions; Light emission; Cosmology; Gamma ray bursts (GRB); Gamma rays; astronomy; gamma ray radiation; article; astronomy; cosmos; gamma radiation; imaging; luminance; optics; priority journal; X ray

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http://hdl.handle.net/1885/87960

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ANU Research Publications

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Nature

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Journal article

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Open Access

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10.1038/nature01734

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