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During the last half of 1977 the UCSD/MIT Hard X-Ray and Low Energy Gamma-Ray Experiment of HEAO-1 observed two of the three gamma-ray bursts detected by at least three satellites. The first of these bursts (20 October, 1977) had a fluence of (3.1±0.5)×10−5 erg cm−2 integrated over the energy range 0.135–2.05 MeV and over its duration of 38.7 s, placing it among the largest bursts observed. The second (10 November, 1977) had a fluence of (2.1±0.8)×10−5 erg cm−2 integrated over the energy range 0.125–3 MeV and over its duration of 2.8 s. The light curves of both bursts exhibit time fluctuations down to the limiting time resolution of the detectors (∼0.1 s). The spectrum of the 20 October, 1977 burst can be fitted with a power law (index −1.93±0.16), which is harder than other reported gamma-ray burst spectral fits. This burst was detected up to 2.05 MeV, and approximately half of its energy was emitted at photon energies above 0.5 MeV. The spectrum of the 10 November, 1977 burst is softer (index −2.4±0.7) and is similar to the spectrum of the 27 April, 1972 burst.
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Knight, F.K., Matteson, J.L. & Peterson, L.E. The spectra and light curves of two gamma-ray bursts. Astrophys Space Sci 75, 21–30 (1981). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00651381
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