RSAA, ANU, Mt Stromlo Observatory, via Cotter Rd, Weston Creek, ACT 2611, Australia. pap@mso.anu.edu.au
Abstract:
Past studies of cosmological gamma-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