High-Resolution Spectroscopy of Gamma-Ray Bursts

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Mar 1981

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1981ap%26ss..75..181t&link_type=abstract

Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 75, Issue 1, pp.181-191

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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We report on results from the Goddard germanium Gamma-Ray Burst Spectrometer flown on the ISEE-3 spacecraft. Spectral and temporal studies of two events on 4 and 19 November, 1978 are presented. The power law spectral indices were found to be respectively -1.82 and -1.31, the latter being the hardest event thus far detected. Evidence for two lines in the 4 November event is presented — a broad feature at ˜420 keV and a narrower one at 740 keV. These are consistent with a common redshift if the parent lines are assumed to be the positron annihilation line (511 keV) and the first excited state of iron (847 keV). If this interpretation is correct, it is shown that additional lines from higher levels of iron and possibly other nuclei are expected and that they may represent a significant contribution to the total spectrum above 1 MeV.

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