Evidence for a Molecular Cloud Origin of Gamma-ray Bursts: Implications for the nature of star formation in the universe

Reichart, D E; Price, Paul

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Evidence for a Molecular Cloud Origin of Gamma-ray Bursts: Implications for the nature of star formation in the universe

Date

2002

Authors

Reichart, D E

Price, Paul

Publisher

IOP Publishing

Abstract

It appears that the majority of rapidly and well-localized gamma-ray bursts with undetected or dark optical afterglows ("dark bursts") occur in clouds of size R ≳ 10L491/2 pc and mass M ≳ 3 × 105L49 M⊙ where L is the isotropic-equivalent peak lumin