Recent progress in gamma-ray burst astronomy achieved by Ginga.
Abstract
Soft X-ray emission below 10 keV and absorption features around several tens keV provide good evidence on the size, location and emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts. The gamma-ray burst detectors on board the Ginga satellite, with a wide energy range from 1.5 to 375 keV, have enabled the author to obtain two important observational results, which strongly support the hypothesis that the gamma-ray bursts originate on the surface of strongly magnetized neutron stars.
- Publication:
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Physics of Neutron Stars and Black Holes
- Pub Date:
- 1988
- Bibcode:
- 1988pnsb.conf..405M
- Keywords:
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- Gamma-Ray Bursts: Light Curves;
- Gamma-Ray Bursts: X-Ray Spectra;
- Gamma-Ray Bursts: Neutron Stars