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A peculiar hard X-ray counterpart of a Galactic fast radio burst
Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are bright, millisecond-scale radio flashes of unknown physical origin1. Young, highly magnetized, isolated neutron stars—magnetars—have been suggested as the most promising candidates fo...
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Article
A bright γ-ray flare interpreted as a giant magnetar flare in NGC 253
Soft γ-ray repeaters exhibit bursting emission in hard X-rays and soft γ-rays. During the active phase, they emit random short (milliseconds to several seconds long), hard-X-ray bursts, with peak luminosities1 of...
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Broadband observations of the naked-eye γ-ray burst GRB 080319B
Long-duration γ-ray bursts (GRBs) release copious amounts of energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and so provide a window into the process of black hole formation from the collapse of massive sta...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
One Year of Rapid, Precise Gamma-Ray Burst Localizations by the Interplanetary Network
We review the performance of the interplanetary network over the past year, emphasizing the GRB detection rate, and the speed and accuracy of the localizations. Two scientific highlights, the burst with the hi...
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Chapter and Conference Paper
The IPN I: From the Past to the Future
Interplanetary spacecraft have been used with orbiting satellites for over 25 years to precisely localize gamma ray transients by the measurement of their timedelay geometry. The first interplanetary network (...
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A giant periodic flare from the soft γ-ray repeater SGR1900+14
Soft γ-ray repeaters are transient sources of high-energy photons; they emit sporadic and short (about 0.1 s) bursts of ‘soft’ γ-rays during periods of activity, which are often broken by long stretches of qui...
