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The clusters of gamma-ray bursts are considered which are assumed to be images of the repeated gamma-ray burst (GRB) sources. It is shown, that localization of the cosmic gamma-ray burst sources (GBS) is determined by the clusters of GRBs.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Kuznetsov

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) divide into two classes: "long", which typically have initial durations of T90>2s, and "short", with durations of T90<2s (where T90 is the time to detect 90% of the observed fluence). Long bursts, which on average…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-16 N. R. Tanvir , R. Chapman , A. J. Levan , R. S. Priddey

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are typically classified into long and short GRBs based on their durations. However, there is a significant overlapping in the duration distributions of these two categories. In this paper, we apply the unsupervised…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-10 Si-Yuan Zhu , Wan-Peng Sun , Da-Ling Ma , Fu-Wen Zhang

Many different physical processes have been suggested to explain the prompt gamma-ray emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Although there are examples of both bursts with photospheric and synchrotron emission origins, these distinct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Zeynep Acuner , Felix Ryde

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) have been traditionally divided into two categories: "short" and "long" with durations less than and greater than two seconds, respectively. However, there is a lot of literature (with conflicting results) regarding…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2022-04-08 Aishwarya Bhave , Soham Kulkarni , Shantanu Desai , P. K. Srijith

Characterising and distinguishing gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has interested astronomers for many decades. While some authors have found two or three groups of GRBs by analyzing only a few parameters, recent work identified five…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Fan Dai , Ranjan Maitra

The number of classes of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), besides the well-established short and long ones, remains a debatable issue. It was already shown, however, that when invoking skewed distributions, the $\log T_{90}$ and $\log T_{90} - \log…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Mariusz Tarnopolski

Recent Swift observations suggest that the traditional long vs. short GRB classification scheme does not always associate GRBs to the two physically motivated model types, i.e. Type II (massive star origin) vs. Type I (compact star origin).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-04-04 Houjun Lv , Enwei Liang , Binbin Zhang , Bing Zhang

Two classes of Gamma Ray Bursts have been identified so far, characterized by T_90 durations shorter and longer than approximately 2 seconds. We show here that the BATSE 3B data allow a good fit with three Gaussian distributions in log…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 I. Horvath

From Galactic binary sources, to extragalactic magnetized neutron stars, to long-duration GRBs without associated supernovae, the types of sources we now believe capable of producing bursts of gamma-rays continues to grow apace. With this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Joshua S. Bloom , Nathaniel R. Butler , Daniel A. Perley

Two classes of gamma-ray bursts have been identified in the BATSE catalogs characterized by durations shorter and longer than about 2 seconds. There are, however, some indications for the existence of a third one. Swift satellite detectors…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 István Horváth , Lajos G. Balázs , Péter Veres

Recently proposed correlations between the energetics of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRB) and their spectral properties, namely the peak energy of their prompt emission, are found to account for the observed fluence distribution of all `bright' BATSE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Z. Bosnjak , A. Celotti , F. Longo , G. Barbiellini

Two classes of gamma-ray bursts have been identified in the BATSE catalogs characterized by durations shorter and longer than about 2 seconds. There are, however, some indications for the existence of a third type of burst. Swift satellite…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-20 I. Horvath , L. G. Balazs , Z. Bagoly , J. Kelemen , P. Veres , G. Tusnady

We study the properties of short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), based on the assumption that they are all connected to the binary neutron star mergers, whose formation mechanism contains a large amount of uncertainty. In particular, the merger…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-15 Shin'ichiro Ando

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are believed to belong to two classes and they are conventionally divided according to their durations. This classification scheme is not satisfied due to the fact that duration distributions of the two classes are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Yi-Ping Qin , Zhi-Fu Chen

The classification of Gamma-Ray Bursts has long been an unresolved problem. Early long and short burst classification based on duration is not convincing due to the significant overlap in duration plot, which leads to different views on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-10 Jia-Ming Chen , Ke-Rui Zhu , Zhao-Yang Peng , Li Zhang

The two widely accepted classes of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), short and long, are with confidence ascribed to mergers of compact objects and collapse of massive stars, respectively. A third, intermediate/soft class, remains putative. Its…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Mariusz Tarnopolski

We present a systematic spectral analysis of 350 bright Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) observed with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE; $\sim$ 30 keV -- 2 MeV) with high temporal and spectral resolution. Our sample was selected from…

In search for the possible astrophysical sources behind origination of the diverse gamma-ray bursts, cluster analyses are performed to find homogeneous groups, which discover an intermediate group other than the conventional short and long…

Applications · Statistics 2021-01-12 Soumita Modak

Studies of \textit{BATSE} bursts \citep{kouveliotou:93} have resulted in the widespread adoption of a two-group categorization: long bursts (those with durations $\geq 2$ seconds) and short bursts (those with durations $\leq 2$ seconds).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-29 Hannachi Zitouni , Nidhal Guessoum , Walid Jamil Azzam , Robert Mochkovitch