X-ray Flashes and Gamma-ray Bursts

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Apr 2002

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2002aps..apr.x6003k&link_type=abstract

American Physical Society, April Meeting, Jointly Sponsored with the High Energy Astrophysics Division (HEAD) of the American As

Astronomy and Astrophysics

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X-ray flashes (XRFs) are a new type of fast transient source observed with the BeppoSAX Wide Field Cameras (WFC) at a rate of about four per year. They are similar to classical gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) except for a large fraction of emission in 2--26 keV X rays. We use combined observations from WFC and CGRO-BATSE to compare the spectral and temporal properties of 10 XRFs to those of gamma-ray bursts. We find that the bulk properties of XRFs are similar to GRBs, supporting the idea that they are related to the same type of source objects.

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