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astro-ph1996
After HETE
J. I. Katz
The outstanding task of gamma-ray burst astronomy is to test the hypothesis that they are at cosmological distances. This can be done by determining the coordinates of at least a f…
cond-mat1996
Statistics and Microphysics of the Fracture of Glass
J. I. Katz
The tensile strength of fused silica fibers is believed to approach its intrinsic value at low temperature, and modern experiments indicate very small, perhaps unmeasured, intrinsi…
astro-ph1996
A Precessing Disc in OJ287?
J. I. Katz
Sillanpää, {\it et al.} (1996) have demonstrated that the AGN OJ287 has intensity peaks which recur with a period of about 12 years. I suggest that this is the result of the sweepi…