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SCIENCE
Volume 343, Issue 6166, Pages 48-51Publisher
AMER ASSOC ADVANCEMENT SCIENCE
DOI: 10.1126/science.1242279
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- ASI [I/004/11/0]
- Progetto di Ricerca di Interesse Nazionale (PRIN)-Ministero dell'Istruzione, dell'Universita e della Ricerca (MIUR) [2009ERC3HT]
- NASA [NNX10AF62G]
- Astrophysics Theory Program
- NSF [AST-1009863]
- Ministry of Education, Culture, Sports, Science and Technology of Japan (MEXT) [14GS0211, 19047001, 19047003, 24740186]
- UK Space Agency
- Royal Society
- Wolfson Foundation
- Science and Technology Facilities Council
- Slovenian Research Agency
- Centre of Excellence for Space Sciences and Technologies SPACE-SI
- European Union
- European Regional Development Fund
- Republic of Slovenia
- Danish National Research
- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [14GS0211, 24740186, 24103001, 19047001] Funding Source: KAKEN
- Science and Technology Facilities Council [ST/K001000/1, ST/G009465/1, ST/H00260X/1, ST/K000977/1, ST/I505821/1, ST/I001719/1, PP/E002064/1, ST/H001972/1, ST/L001306/1, ST/J001465/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- UK Space Agency [ST/J000841/1] Funding Source: researchfish
- STFC [ST/G009465/1, ST/K000977/1, ST/J001465/1, ST/H001972/1, ST/K001000/1, ST/I001719/1, PP/E002064/1, ST/L001306/1, ST/H00260X/1, ST/I505821/1] Funding Source: UKRI
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Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are an extremely rare outcome of the collapse of massive stars and are typically found in the distant universe. Because of its intrinsic luminosity (L similar to 3 x 10(53) ergs per second) and its relative proximity (z = 0.34), GRB 130427A reached the highest fluence observed in the gamma-ray band. Here, we present a comprehensive multiwavelength view of GRB 130427A with Swift, the 2-meter Liverpool and Faulkes telescopes, and by other ground-based facilities, highlighting the evolution of the burst emission from the prompt to the afterglow phase. The properties of GRB 130427A are similar to those of the most luminous, high-redshift GRBs, suggesting that a common central engine is responsible for producing GRBs in both the contemporary and the early universe and over the full range of GRB isotropic energies.
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