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OBSERVATIONS from our latest balloon flight and a burst observed by Nishimura et al. combined with our previous results and the observations of Bewick et al. provide strong evidence that cosmic γ-ray bursts are galactic. It also seems that the recently discovered X-ray bursts and γ-ray bursts have a common origin. A further 41 h of balloon flight time with the University of California, Riverside (UCR) double Compton scatter γ-ray telescope gave no additional γ-ray bursts. This flight time is added to the earlier 24 h observation of Herzo et al.1 who found three bursts with total energy greater than 1×10minus;6 erg cmminus;2 and one burst with total energy greater than 4×10minus;6 erg cmminus;2 to give lower values for the number of bursts of (8+8−3) × 102 and (3+7−1) × 102 d−1, respectively.
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WHITE, R., RYAN, J., WILSON, R. et al. Evidence that cosmic γ-ray bursts are galactic. Nature 271, 635–636 (1978). https://doi.org/10.1038/271635a0
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