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astro-ph1998
ASCA Discovery of an X-ray Pulsar in the Error Box of SGR1900+14
K. Hurley, P. Li, C. Kouveliotou +9
We present a 2 - 10 keV ASCA observation of the field around the soft gamma repeater SGR1900+14. One quiescent X-ray source was detected in this observation, and it was in the SGR…
astro-ph1998
Gamma-Ray Burst and Relativistic Shells: The Surface Filling Factor
E. E. Fenimore, C. Cooper, E. Ramirez-Ruiz +3
The variability observed in many complex gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is inconsistent with causally connected variations in a single, symmetric, relativistic shell interacting with the…