Bursts make new waves

Bohdan Paczyski () and Chryssa Kouveliotou ()
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Bohdan Paczyski: Princeton University
Chryssa Kouveliotou: the Universities Space Research Association at NASA/Marshall Space Flight Center

Nature, 1997, vol. 389, issue 6651, 548-549

Abstract: Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been in the news this year, as it has become clear that these long-enigmatic and immensely violent astronomical events are occurring at cosmological distances — not, as might have been the case, in our Galaxy. A meeting to discuss these and more recent findings proved to be a historic event. As astronomers come to concentrate on the `how' rather than the `where' of this phenomenon, we should see the beginning of a new era in high-energy astrophysics — GRBs as another probe of cosmological distances in the early Universe.

Date: 1997
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DOI: 10.1038/39200

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