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Article #4775Re: Compelling Mysteries (II)
From: Benjamin Weiner
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:33
Date: Wed, 11 Nov 1992 23:33
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sichase@csa2.lbl.gov (SCOTT I CHASE) writes: >This suggests, at best, an in-between solution - bursters are associated >with our galaxy, but are uniformly distributed in a sphere. There are problems >building such models as well, but I can't remember the details off the top >of my head. Probably that we're off center. The sun is about 8 kpc (or at least that was the IAU standard value for a while, presumably not standardized by a platinum bar in Paris ;-) from the galactic center and to get a distribution of bursters to look isotropic to us its scale radius has to be really big.
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Path: arc1-ca.pugleaf.net!sparky!uunet!dziuxsolim.rutgers.edu!ruhets.rutgers.edu!bweiner From: bweiner@ruhets.rutgers.edu (Benjamin Weiner) Newsgroups: sci.physics Subject: Re: Compelling Mysteries (II) Message-ID: <Nov.11.18.33.39.1992.14629@ruhets.rutgers.edu> Date: 11 Nov 92 23:33:40 GMT References: <1992Nov10.151421.11274@murdoch.acc.Virginia.EDU> <1992Nov10.203037.13332@sfu.ca> <1992Nov11.052908.22313@galois.mit.edu> <1992Nov11.140007.16660@ulrik.uio.no> <11NOV199211440994@csa2.lbl.gov> Organization: Rutgers Univ., New Brunswick, N.J. Lines: 11