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Astrophysics: A burst of new ideas

Astrophysics 2009-11-11 v1

Abstract

Gigantic cosmological gamma-ray bursts have fallen into a dichotomy of long and short bursts, each with a very different origin. The discovery of an oddball burst calls for a rethink of that classification.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0612614,
  title  = {Astrophysics: A burst of new ideas},
  author = {Bing Zhang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0612614},
  year   = {2009}
}

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7 pages, published in Nature News & Views, Vol 444, 1010-1011