Detection of a fast, intense and unusual gamma-ray transient.
Abstract
An unusual transient pulse of greater than approximately 50 keV photons was detected on March 5, 1979 by the gamma-ray burst sensor network using nine space probes and satellites. Its characteristics are unlike those of the known variety of gamma-ray bursts and therefore suggest that it was formed either by a completely different origin species or in a very different manner. In a companion Letter it is identified with the LMC supernova remnant N49.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- April 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1086/183221
- Bibcode:
- 1980ApJ...237L...1C
- Keywords:
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- Extraterrestrial Radiation;
- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Pulsed Radiation;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Bursts;
- Gamma Ray Spectra;
- Helios 2;
- Space Radiation