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Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts, Their Afterglows, and Their Host Galaxies

Astrophysics 2007-05-23 v2

Abstract

This is a review article for the book "Compact Stellar X-Ray Sources", Editors W. Lewin and M. van der Klis, to be published by Cambridge University Press in 2003. It covers the phenomenology of cosmic gamma-ray bursts, the theory of their afterglows, and the observations and interpretation of their host galaxies.

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Cite

@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0211620,
  title  = {Cosmic Gamma-Ray Bursts, Their Afterglows, and Their Host Galaxies},
  author = {K. Hurley and R. Sari and S. G. Djorgovski},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0211620},
  year   = {2007}
}

Comments

47 pages, 11 figures. Revised version, with minor changes