Soft Gamma-Ray Bursts from the Superluminal Source GRS 1915+105?
Abstract
The power required to eject relativistic plasma clouds in the hard X-ray transient GRS 1915+105 is at least 100 times the luminosity of the softϒ-ray bursts (SGRs) that were observed by BATSE from the same region of the sky in the year 1992. We show that there are spatial, time, and spectral coincidences between GRS 1915+105 and the SGRs observed by BATSE which suggest that they are one and the same source. However, the position of the SGRs is rather uncertain and until better positions are obtained, the question on the association of GRS 1915+105 with the SGRs must remain open.
- Publication:
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Astrophysics and Space Science
- Pub Date:
- September 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1007/BF00658589
- Bibcode:
- 1995Ap&SS.231...65M
- Keywords:
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- Soft Gamma Ray Bursts;
- Hard X-ray Transients;
- Superluminal Sources