BATSE Evidence for GRB Spectral Features
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
We have developed an automatic search procedure to identify low-energy spectral features in GRBs. We have searched 133,000 spectra from 117 bright bursts and have identified 12 candidate features with significances ranging from our threshold of P = 5E-5 to P = 1E-7. Several of the candidates have been examined in detail, including some with data from more than one BATSE spectroscopy detector. The evidence for spectral features appears good; however, the features have not conclusively been shown to be narrow lines.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9712096,
title = {BATSE Evidence for GRB Spectral Features},
author = {M. S. Briggs and D. L. Band and R. D. Preece and G. N. Pendleton and W. S. Paciesas and J. L. Matteson},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9712096},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in Gamma-Ray Bursts: 4th Huntsville Symposium, ed. C. Meegan, R. Preece and T. Koshut