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A Review of GRB Counterpart Searches

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The Hot Universe

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Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) research, has been recently revitalized with exciting new results that have effectively started a new era in this thirty year old field, marked by the launch of the Italian—Dutch satellite BeppoSAX [1] on April 1996.

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Kouveliotou, C. (1998). A Review of GRB Counterpart Searches. In: Koyama, K., Kitamoto, S., Itoh, M. (eds) The Hot Universe. International Astronomical Union / Union Astronomique Internationale, vol 188. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-011-4970-9_39

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