Search Results - "FENIMORE, E. E"
-
1
GRB 090423 at a redshift of z 8.1
Published in Nature (London) (29-10-2009)“…Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are produced by rare types of massive stellar explosion. Their rapidly fading afterglows are often bright enough at optical wavelengths…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
2
A giant γ-ray flare from the magnetar SGR 1806-20
Published in Nature (28-04-2005)“…Two classes of rotating neutron stars-soft γ-ray repeaters (SGRs) and anomalous X-ray pulsars-are magnetars, whose X-ray emission is powered by a very strong…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
3
Discovery of the short γ -ray burst GRB 050709
Published in Nature (06-10-2005)“…Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) fall into two classes: short-hard and long-soft bursts. The latter are now known to have X-ray and optical afterglows, to occur at…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
4
Global Characteristics of X-Ray Flashes and X-Ray-Rich Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by HETE-2
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-08-2005)“…We describe and discuss the global properties of 45 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) observed by HETE-2 during the first 3 years of its mission, focusing on the…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
5
The burst alert telescope (BAT) on the Swift MIDEX mission
Published in Space science reviews (01-12-2005)“…he burst alert telescope (BAT) is one of three instruments on the Swift MIDEX spacecraft to study gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). The BAT first detects the GRB and…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
6
The Swift Gamma-Ray Burst Mission
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-08-2004)“…The Swift mission, scheduled for launch in 2004, is a multiwavelength observatory for gamma-ray burst (GRB) astronomy. It is a first-of-its-kind autonomous…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
7
Pulse Width Evolution in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Evidence for Internal Shocks
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-08-2000)Get full text
Journal Article -
8
Global Properties of X-Ray Flashes and X-Ray-Rich Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by Swift
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-05-2008)“…We describe and discuss the spectral and temporal characteristics of the prompt emission and X-ray afterglow emission of X-ray flashes (XRFs) and X- ray-rich…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
9
A link between prompt optical and prompt γ-ray emission in γ-ray bursts
Published in Nature (12-05-2005)“…The prompt optical emission that arrives with the γ-rays from a cosmic γ-ray burst (GRB) is a signature of the engine powering the burst, the properties of the…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
10
A short γ-ray burst apparently associated with an elliptical galaxy at redshift z = 0.225
Published in Nature (06-10-2005)“…Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) come in two classes: long (> 2 s), soft-spectrum bursts and short, hard events. Most progress has been made on understanding the long…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
11
Correlations of Prompt and Afterglow Emission in Swift Long and Short Gamma-Ray Bursts
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-12-2008)“…Correlation studies of prompt and afterglow emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) between different spectral bands have been difficult to do in the past…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
12
E peak Estimator for Gamma-Ray Bursts Observed by the Swift Burst Alert Telescope
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-03-2009)“…We report a correlation based on a spectral simulation study of the prompt emission spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Swift Burst Alert…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
13
An infrared flash contemporaneous with the γ-rays of GRB 041219a
Published in Nature (12-05-2005)“…The explosion that results in a cosmic γ-ray burst (GRB) is thought to produce emission from two physical processes: the central engine gives rise to the…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
14
Energy input and response from prompt and early optical afterglow emission in γ-ray bursts
Published in Nature (London) (13-07-2006)“…The taxonomy of optical emission detected during the critical first few minutes after the onset of a γ-ray burst (GRB) defines two broad classes: prompt…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
15
Expanding Relativistic Shells and Gamma-Ray Burst Temporal Structure
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-12-1996)“…Abstract only…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
16
High Energy Transient Explorer 2 Observations of the Extremely Soft X-Ray Flash XRF 020903
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-02-2004)“…We report High Energy Transient Explorer 2 (HETE-2) Wide Field X-Ray Monitor/French Gamma Telescope observations of the X-ray flash XRF 020903. This event was…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
17
Gamma-ray bursts Huge explosion in the early Universe
Published in Nature (09-03-2006)“…Long gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are bright flashes of high-energy photons that can last for tens of minutes; they are generally associated with galaxies that have…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
18
HETE Observations of the Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 030329: Evidence for an Underlying Soft X-Ray Component
Published in The Astrophysical journal (20-12-2004)“…An exceptionally intense gamma-ray burst, GRB 030329, was detected and localized by the instruments on board the High Energy Transient Explorer satellite…”
Get full text
Journal Article -
19
HETE-2 Localization and Observation of the Bright, X-Ray-rich Gamma-Ray Burst GRB 021211
Published in The Astrophysical journal (10-12-2003)Get full text
Journal Article -
20
Gamma-Ray Burst Peak Duration as a Function of Energy
Published in The Astrophysical journal (01-08-1995)Get full text
Journal Article