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GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

To be short or long is not the question

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The association of a short gamma-ray burst with a core-collapse supernova seems to challenge current scenarios for the origin of these extreme events. But how much can we rely on observed duration for pinpointing their progenitors?

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Fig. 1: Main observational differences between short/type I and long/type II GRBs and standard scenarios for their origin.

Cristiano Guidorzi (University of Ferrara) (a,b,d); Joshua Bloom, C. Blake, J. X. Prochaska, J. Hennawi, M. Gladders and B. Koester (c); HST/STIS and Stephen Holland (e); NASA and A. Feild (STScl) (f,g).

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