Helios-2 Vela-Ariel-5 gamma-ray burst source position
Abstract
The gamma-ray burst of 28 January 1976, one of 18 events thus far detected in interplanetary space with Helios-2, was also observed with the Vela-5A, -6A and the Ariel-5 satellites. A small source field is obtained from the intersection of the region derived from the observed time delays between Helios-2 and Vela-5A and -6A with the source region independently found with the Ariel-5 X-ray detector. This area contains neither any steady X-ray source as scanned by HEAO-A nor any previously catalogued X-ray, radio or infrared sources, X-ray transients, quasars, seyferts, globular clusters, flare stars, pulsars, white dwarfs or high energy gamma-ray sources. The region is however, within the source field of a gamma-ray transient observed in 1974, which exhibited nuclear gamma-ray line structure.
- Publication:
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NASA STI/Recon Technical Report N
- Pub Date:
- January 1979
- Bibcode:
- 1979STIN...7916789C
- Keywords:
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- Ariel 5 Satellite;
- Bursts;
- Gamma Rays;
- Helios 2;
- Position (Location);
- Radiation Sources;
- Vela Satellites;
- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Interplanetary Space;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- X Ray Sources;
- Space Radiation