In Situ Probes of the First Galaxies and Reionization: Gamma-ray Bursts
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Authors Matthew McQuinn (Harvard/CFA, [email protected], phone: 617-495-2536), Joshua S. Bloom (UC Berkeley), Jonathan Grindlay (Harvard/CFA), David Band (GSFC), S.D. Barthelmy (GSFC), E. Berger (Harvard-CfA), A. Corsi (INAF-Roma), S. Covino (INAF-Brera), G.J. Fishman (MSFC), Steven R. Furlanetto (UCLA), Neil Gehrels (GSFC), D.H. Hartmann (Clemson), Chryssa Kouveliotou (MSFC), A.S. Kutyrev (GSFC), Abraham Loeb (Harvard/CfA), S. Harvey Moseley (GSFC), Tsvi Piran (Racah Inst.), L. Piro (INAF-Rome), J.X. Prochaska (UCSC), R. Salvaterra (INAF-Brera), P. Schady (University College London-MSSL), A. M. Soderberg (Harvard-CFA), G. Tagliaferri (INAF-Brera)
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