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The environments of short-duration gamma-ray bursts and implications for their progenitors
DOI: 10.1016/j.newar.2010.10.001 Bibcode: 2011NewAR..55....1B

Berger, Edo

The study of short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) experienced a complete revolution in recent years thanks to the discovery of the first afterglows and host galaxies starting in May 2005. These observations demonstrated that short GRBs are cosmological in origin, reside in both star forming and elliptical galaxies, are not associated with supern…

2011 New Astronomy Reviews
eHST 105