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Science 22 October 1999:
Vol. 286. no. 5440, pp. 693 - 695
DOI: 10.1126/science.286.5440.693
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Perspectives

ASTROPHYSICS:
From Gamma-Ray Bursts to Supernovae

Jan van Paradijs

Gamma-ray bursts are highly energetic astronomical events lasting from tens of milliseconds to tens of minutes. A wealth of new data is providing clues for the origin of these events, and in a striking twist, researchers are returning to an old idea that links gamma-ray bursts to supernovae.

The author is in the Astronomical Institute "Anton Pannekoek," University of Amsterdam, Kruislaan 403, 1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands and the Physics Department, University of Alabama, Huntsville, AL 35899. E-mail: jvp{at}astro.uva.nl

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Gamma-Ray Bursts: Accumulating Afterglow Implications, Progenitor Clues, and Prospects.
P. Mészáros (2001)
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