2 papers
astro-ph2005
Tentative detection of warm intervening gas towards PKS 0548-322 with XMM-Newton
X. Barcons, F. B. S. Paerels, F. J. Carrera +2
We present the results of a long (~93 ksec) XMM-Newton observation of the bright BL-Lac object PKS 0548-322 (z=0.069). Our Reflection Grating Spectrometer (RGS) spectrum shows a si…
astro-ph2004
The sub-energetic GRB 031203 as a cosmic analogue to GRB 980425
A. M. Soderberg, S. R. Kulkarni, E. Berger +13
Over the six years since the discovery of the gamma-ray burst GRB 980425, associated with the nearby (distance, ~40 Mpc) supernova 1998bw, astronomers have fiercely debated the nat…