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Cosmic Headlights and the Origin of Gamma Ray Bursts

Figure 1: The positions in galactic coordinates of the GRBs in the BATSE 4B catalog, showing the isotropy of the burst sky distribution (see C.A. Meegan, et al., Nature, vol. 355, 1993, p. 143. by Eric J. Heller Departments of Chemistry and Physics Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts Gamma-ray bursts pose one of the greatest mysteries of modern [...]