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Nature 423, 844-847 (19 June 2003) | doi:10.1038/nature01734;

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The bright optical afterglow of the nearby |[gamma]|-ray burst of 29 March 2003

Past studies of cosmological γ-ray bursts (GRBs) have been hampered by their extreme distances, resulting in faint afterglows. A nearby GRB could potentially shed much light on the origin of these events, but GRBs with a redshift z |[le]| 0.2 have been estimated to occur only rarely, about once per decade.

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