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J. M. Anderson (NMT/NRAO)
Although Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are observed to have a wide range of apparent burst energies, recent studies suggest that beaming significantly affects the observed fluxes. Correcting for this effect, Frail et al. (2001) find that GRBs have a common burst energy with a 1~\sigma multiplicative spread of 2.0. This is small enough to provide interesting constraints on the cosmological parameters \Omega\mathrm M and \Omega\mathrm\Lambda when combined with available type~1a supernovae data. GRBs are currently detected to much higher redshifts than supernovae, allowing improved tests of dust/dark energy models to be made. If GRBs are conclusively shown to be monoenergetic, they will provide a useful probe of cosmology at moderately high redshifts.
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Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, 34
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