New correlation has been discovered in optical observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and may be the key to using GRBs as cosmological distance indicators. Maria Giovanna Dainotti (Jagiellonian University/RIKEN iTHEMs) and Samantha Livermore (Tufts University) worked with the large international team to gather a sizable sample and conduct their rigorous statistical analysis. This research features the largest sample of optical plateaus in the literature to date.
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