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[[File:GRB06-RAPTOR.png|400px]]
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[[File:GRB06-RAPTOR.png|400px]] from [http://ukads.nottingham.ac.uk/abs/2006ApJ...642L..99W Wozniak et al. 2006]
  
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[[File:GRB08-PI.png|400px]] from [http://arxiv.org/abs/0903.2998 Sokolowski et al.2009]

Revision as of 14:08, 27 August 2009

Very short-lived optical transients associated with enormous gamma-ray outbursts.

  • time-scales from seconds to minutes
  • in maximum can reach up to 5 mag, but the whole range observed
  • host galaxy can be visible

GRB06-RAPTOR.png from Wozniak et al. 2006

GRB08-PI.png from Sokolowski et al.2009