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GRB 080407: an ultra-long burst discovered by the IPN

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2013-01-23 v1

Abstract

We present observations of the extremely long GRB 080704 obtained with the instruments of the Interplanetary Network (IPN). The observations reveal two distinct emission episodes, separated by a ~1500 s long period of quiescence. The total burst duration is about 2100 s. We compare the temporal and spectral characteristics of this burst with those obtained for other ultra-long GRBs and discuss these characteristics in the context of different models.

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@article{arxiv.1301.5203,
  title  = {GRB 080407: an ultra-long burst discovered by the IPN},
  author = {V. Pal'shin and K. Hurley and J. Goldsten and I. G. Mitrofanov and W. Boynton and A. von Kienlin and J. Cummings and M. Feroci and R. Aptekar and D. Frederiks and S. Golenetskii and E. Mazets and D. Svinkin and D. Golovin and M. L. Litvak and A. B. Sanin and C. Fellows and K. Harshman and R. Starr and A. Rau and V. Savchenko and X. Zhang and S. Barthelmy and N. Gehrels and H. Krimm and D. Palmer and E. Del Monte and M. Marisaldi},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1301.5203},
  year   = {2013}
}

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5 pages, 2 figures, 3 tables. Proceedings of the Gamma-Ray Bursts 2012 Conference (GRB 2012) held in Munich, Germany, May 7-11, 2012. Published online at http://pos.sissa.it/cgi-bin/reader/conf.cgi?confid=152