Published May 1989 | Version v1
Journal article

Gamma-ray burster counterparts - Radio

  • 1. Los Alamos National Lab., NM (USA)
  • 2. Institut Kosmicheskikh Issledovanii, Moscow (USSR)
  • 3. Centre d'Etude Spatiale des Rayonnements, Toulouse (France)
  • 4. NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD (USA)
  • 5. Maryland Univ., College Park (USA)

Description

Many observers and theorists have suggested that gamma-ray bursters (GRBs) are related to highly magnetized rotating, neutron stars, in which case an analogy with pulsars implies that GRBs would be prodigious emitters of polarized radio emission during quiescence. The paper reports on a survey conducted with the Very Large Array radio telescope of 10 small GRB error regions for quiescent radio emission at wavelengths of 2, 6, and 20 cm. The sensitivity of the survey varied from 0.1 to 0.8 mJy. The observations did indeed reveal four radio sources inside the GRB error regions. 27 refs

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Publishing Information

Journal Title
Astrophysical Journal
Journal Volume
340
Series
Astrophys. J.
Journal Page Range
455-457
ISSN
0004-637X
CODEN
ASJOA