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Deriving the GRB distance scale

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We describe a method to address the burster origin problem by determining their distance scale. We show that this can be easily carried out at soft X-ray wavelengths by measuring the effective column densities of a representative sample of burst spectra. We demonstrate the effectiveness of the technique by simulating the performance of a small CATSAT-type mission (Forrestet al., 1995).

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  1. Dept. of Physics and Astronomy, Leicester University, LE1 7RH, Leicester, U.K.

    Alan Owens & S. Sembay

  2. Dept. of Physics, Yale University, CT 06520-8121, New Haven, USA

    Bradley E. Schaefer

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Owens, A., Sembay, S. & Schaefer, B.E. Deriving the GRB distance scale. Astrophys Space Sci 231, 449–452 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00658668

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