Broadband observations of the naked-eye [gamma]-ray burst GRB 080319B

Long-duration c-ray bursts (GRBs) release copious amounts of energy across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, and soprovide a window into the process of black hole formation from the collapse of massive stars. Previous early opticalobservations of even the most exceptional GRBs (990123 and 030329)...

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Main Authors: Racusin, J., Karpov, S., Sokolowski, Marcin, Granot, J., Wu, X., Pal’shin, V., Covino, S., van der Horst, A., Oates, S., Schady, P., Smith, R., Cummings, J., Starling, R., Piotrowski, L., Zhang, B., Evans, P., Holland, S., Malek, K., Page, M., Vetere, L., Margutti, R., Guidorzi, C., Kamble, A., Curran, Peter, Beardmore, A., Kouveliotou, C., Mankiewicz, L., Melandri, A., O’Brien, P., Page, K., Piran, T., Tanvir, N., Wrochna, G., Aptekar, R., Barthelmy, S., Bartolini, C., Beskin, G., Bondar, S., Bremer, M., Campana, S., Castro-Tirado, A., Cucchiara, A., Cwiok, M., D’Avanzo, P., D’Elia, V., Della Valle, M., de Ugarte Postigo, A., Dominik, W., Falcone, A., Fiore, F., Fox, D., Frederiks, D., Fruchter, A., Fugazza, D., Garrett, M., Gehrels, N., Golenetskii, S., Gomboc, A., Gorosabel, J., Greco, G., Guarnieri, A., Immler, S., Jelinek, M., Kasprowicz, G., La Parola, V., Levan, A., Mangano, V., Mazets, E., Molinari, E., Moretti, A., Nawrocki, K., Oleynik, P., Osborne, J., Pagani, C., Pandey, S., Paragi, Z., Perri, M., Piccioni, A., Ramirez-Ruiz, E., Roming, P., Steele, I., Strom, R., Testa, V., Tosti, G., Ulanov, M., Wiersema, K., Wijers, R., Winters, J., Zarnecki, A., Zerbi, F., Meszaros, P., Chincarini, G., Burrows, D.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Nature Publishing Group 2008
Online Access:http://www.nature.com/nature/journal/v455/n7210/pdf/nature07270.pdf
http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/15775