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The positions of 46 γ-ray burst sources on the sky are used to show that the majority of these objects either originate in very distant regions with redshifts ≳30000 km s−1 or within ≲0.5β of the Sun; where β is the scale-height of the parent population perpendicular to the galactic disc. An origin of the majority of γ-ray bursts in the more distant parts of the galactic disc, the galactic nuclear bulge, the Virgo supercluster, in galaxies withm pg<18 and rich in Abell clusters of distance classes 0 to 4 is excluded by the data.
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van den Bergh, S. The origin of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. Astrophys Space Sci 97, 385–388 (1983). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00653494
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DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/BF00653494