3 papers
astro-ph2005
Mars Odyssey Joins The Third Interplanetary Network
K. Hurley, I. Mitrofanov, A. Kozyrev +11
The Mars Odyssey spacecraft carries two experiments which are capable of detecting cosmic gamma-ray bursts and soft gamma repeaters. Since April 2001 they have detected over 275 bu…
astro-ph2005
An exceptionally bright flare from SGR1806-20 and the origins of short-duration gamma-ray bursts
K. Hurley, S. E. Boggs, D. M. Smith +17
Soft-gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs) are galactic X-ray stars that emit numerous short-duration (about 0.1 s) bursts of hard X-rays during sporadic active periods. They are thought to b…
astro-ph1997
Resent Models of Cosmic Gamma Ray Bursts and Needs for Future Observations
I. G. Mitrofanov
The paper presents the nowdays definition of the phenomenon of cosmic gamma ray bursts, refers to the main alternative models of their origin and proposes three promising domains o…