Construction and Preliminary Application of the Variability -> Luminosity Estimator
Astrophysics
2009-11-06 v2
Abstract
We present a possible Cepheid-like luminosity estimator for the long-duration gamma-ray bursts based on the variability of their light curves. We also present a preliminary application of this luminosity estimator to 907 long-duration bursts from the BATSE catalog.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0103255,
title = {Construction and Preliminary Application of the Variability -> Luminosity Estimator},
author = {Daniel E. Reichart and Donald Q. Lamb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0103255},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
To appear in Procs. of the 20th Texas Symposium on Relativistic Astrophysics, 6 pages, 4 figures, LaTeX