GRB Sky Distribution Puzzles
Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
2010-09-21 v1
Abstract
We analyze the randomness of the sky distribution of cosmic gamma-ray bursts. These events are associated with massive galaxies, spiral or elliptical, and therefore their positions should trace the large-scale structure, which, in turn, could show up in the sky distribution of fluctuations of the cosmic microwave background (CMB). We test this hypothesis by mosaic correlation mapping of the distributions of CMB peaks and burst positions, find the distribution of these two signals to be correlated, and interpret this correlation as a possible systematic effect.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1009.3720,
title = {GRB Sky Distribution Puzzles},
author = {O. V. Verkhodanov and V. V. Sokolov and M. L. Khabibullina and S. V. Karpov},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1009.3720},
year = {2010}
}
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12 pages, 16 figures, 1 table