GIANT SHELLS AND STELLAR ARCS AS RELICS OF GAMMA-RAY BURST EXPLOSIONS

Authors
EFREMOV YN ELMEGREEN BG HODGE PW
Citation
Yn. Efremov et al., GIANT SHELLS AND STELLAR ARCS AS RELICS OF GAMMA-RAY BURST EXPLOSIONS, The Astrophysical journal, 501(2), 1998, pp. 163-165
Citations number
71
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
The Astrophysical journal → ACNP
ISSN journal
0004637X
Volume
501
Issue
2
Year of publication
1998
Part
2
Pages
163 - 165
Database
ISI
SICI code
0004-637X(1998)501:2<163:GSASAA>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
Gamma-ray burst (GRB) explosions are powerful and frequent enough to m ake kiloparsec-size shells and holes in the interstellar media of spir al and irregular galaxies. The observations of such remnants are summa rized. Several observed shells contain no obvious central star cluster s and could be GRB remnants, but sufficiently old clusters, which coul d have formed these shells by supernovae and winds, might be hard to d etect.