The Statistics of the BATSE Spectral Features
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
The absence of a BATSE line detection in a gamma-ray burst spectrum during the mission's first six years has led to a statistical analysis of the occurrence of lines in the BATSE burst database; this statistical analysis will still be relevant if lines are detected. We review our methodology, and present new simulations of line detectability as a function of the line parameters. We also discuss the calculation of the number of ``trials'' in the BATSE database, which is necessary for our line detection criteria.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9711329,
title = {The Statistics of the BATSE Spectral Features},
author = {D. Band and J. Matteson and M. Briggs and W. Paciesas and G. Pendleton and R. Preece},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9711329},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures, AIPPROC LaTeX, to appear in "Gamma-Ray Bursts, 4th Huntsville Symposium," eds. C. Meegan, R. Preece and T. Koshut