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The light curve, energy characteristics, and localization of the short hard burst GRB 051103 are considered. Evidence for identifying this event with a giant flare from a soft gamma repeater in the nearby M81 group of interacting galaxies is discussed.
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Original Russian Text © D.D. Frederiks, V.D. Palshin, R.L. Aptekar, S.V. Golenetskii, T.L. Cline, E.P. Mazets, 2007, published in Pis’ma v Astronomicheskiĭ Zhurnal, 2007, Vol. 33, No. 1, pp. 22–28.
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Frederiks, D.D., Palshin, V.D., Aptekar, R.L. et al. On the possibility of identifying the short hard burst GRB 051103 with a giant flare from a soft gamma repeater in the M81 group of galaxies. Astron. Lett. 33, 19–24 (2007). https://doi.org/10.1134/S1063773707010021
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