• DOI:10.1038/29927
Corpus ID: 4383814

Identification of a host galaxy at redshift z = 3.42 for the γ-ray burst of 14 December 1997

@article{Kulkarni1998IdentificationOA,
  title={Identification of a host galaxy at redshift z = 3.42 for the γ-ray burst of 14 December 1997},
  author={S. Kulkarni and S. Djorgovski and A. N. Ramaprakash and R. Goodrich and J. Bloom and K. Adelberger and T. Kundi{\'c} and L. Lubin and D. Frail and F. Frontera and M. Feroci and L. Nicastro and A. J. Barth and M. Davis and A. Filippenko and J. Newman},
  journal={Nature},
  year={1998},
  volume={393},
  pages={35-39}
}

S. Kulkarni, S. Djorgovski, +13 authors J. Newman

Published 1998

Physics

Nature

Knowledge of the properties of γ-ray bursts has increased substantially following recent detections of counterparts at X-ray, optical and radio wavelengths. But the nature of the underlying physical mechanism that powers these sources remains unclear. In this context, an important question is the total energy in the burst, for which an accurate estimate of the distance is required. Possible host galaxies have been identified for the first two optical counterparts discovered, and a lower limit… CONTINUE READING

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