Testing the Dipole and Quadrupole Moments of Galactic Models
Astrophysics
2009-10-28 v1
Abstract
If gamma-ray bursts originate in the Galaxy, at some level there should be a galactic pattern in their distribution on the sky. We test published galactic models by comparing their dipole and quadrupole moments with the moments of the BATSE 3B catalog. While many models have moments that are too large, several models are in acceptable or good agreement with the data.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9610142,
title = {Testing the Dipole and Quadrupole Moments of Galactic Models},
author = {Michael S. Briggs and William S. Paciesas and Geoffrey N. Pendleton and Charles A. Meegan and Gerald J. Fishman and John M. Horack and Chryssa Kouveliotou and Dieter H. Hartmann and Jon Hakkila},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9610142},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, LaTex using Revtex macro aipbook.sty and psfig. To appear in the Proceedings of the 3rd Huntsville Symposium on Gamma-Ray Bursts, AIP, eds. C. Kouveliotou, M. S. Briggs, G. J. Fishman