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Are Gamma-Ray Bursts At Cosmological Distances?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  25 April 2016

Rachel Webster  and
Omer Blaes
Rachel Webster
Affiliation:
School of Physics, University of Melbourne, Parkville Victoria, 3052
Omer Blaes
Affiliation:
Canadian Institute for Theoretical Astrophysics, University of Toronto, 60 St. George St., Toronto Ontario M5S 1A1, Canada
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Abstract

We review the discovery of gamma-ray bursts, and summarise the new data from the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory. We evaluate the evidence that gamma-ray bursts are at cosmological distances, and discuss applications of such gamma-ray bursts to cosmological problems.

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Publications of the Astronomical Society of Australia , Volume 10 , Issue 4 , 1993 , pp. 271 - 274
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Copyright © Astronomical Society of Australia 1993

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