X-ray Flashes or Soft Gamma-ray Bursts? the Case of the Likely Distant Xrf 040912
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The origin of X-ray Flashes (XRFs) is still a mystery and several models have been proposed. To disentangle among these models, an important observational tool is the measure of the XRF distance scale, so far available only for a few of them.
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