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7060
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| pubmed:dateCreated |
2005-10-6
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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 cosmological distances in star-forming galaxies, and to be associated with the explosion of massive stars. In contrast, the distance scale, the energy scale and the progenitors of the short bursts have remained a mystery. Here we report the discovery of a short-hard burst whose accurate localization has led to follow-up observations that have identified the X-ray afterglow and (for the first time) the optical afterglow of a short-hard burst; this in turn led to the identification of the host galaxy of the burst as a late-type galaxy at z = 0.16 (ref. 10). These results show that at least some short-hard bursts occur at cosmological distances in the outskirts of galaxies, and are likely to be caused by the merging of compact binaries.
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eng
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PubMed-not-MEDLINE
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| pubmed:month |
Oct
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| pubmed:issn |
1476-4687
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| pubmed:author |
pubmed-author:AtteiaJ-LJL,
pubmed-author:BoerMM,
pubmed-author:BragaJJ,
pubmed-author:ButlerNN,
pubmed-author:CrewG BGB,
pubmed-author:DonaghyT QTQ,
pubmed-author:DotyJJ,
pubmed-author:FenimoreE EEE,
pubmed-author:GalassiMM,
pubmed-author:GrazianiCC,
pubmed-author:HurleyKK,
pubmed-author:JerniganJ GJG,
pubmed-author:KawaiNN,
pubmed-author:LambD QDQ,
pubmed-author:LevineAA,
pubmed-author:ManchandaRR,
pubmed-author:MartelFF,
pubmed-author:MatsuokaMM,
pubmed-author:NakagawaYY,
pubmed-author:OliveJ-FJF,
pubmed-author:PizzichiniGG,
pubmed-author:PrigozhinGG,
pubmed-author:RickerG RGR,
pubmed-author:SakamotoTT,
pubmed-author:ShirasakiYY,
pubmed-author:SuzukiMM,
pubmed-author:TakagishiKK,
pubmed-author:TamagawaTT,
pubmed-author:VanderspekRR,
pubmed-author:VillasenorJ SJS,
pubmed-author:WoosleyS ESE,
pubmed-author:YamauchiMM,
pubmed-author:YoshidaAA
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| pubmed:issnType |
Electronic
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| pubmed:day |
6
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| pubmed:volume |
437
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| pubmed:owner |
NLM
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| pubmed:authorsComplete |
Y
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| pubmed:pagination |
855-8
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| pubmed:year |
2005
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| pubmed:articleTitle |
Discovery of the short gamma-ray burst GRB 050709.
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MIT Kavli Institute, Massachusetts Institute of Technology, 70 Vassar Street, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02139, USA. jsvilla@space.mit.edu
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Journal Article
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