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The recent association of several short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with early type galaxies with low star formation rate demonstrates that short bursts arise from a different progenitor mechanism than long bursts. However, since the duration…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-30 Jay P. Norris , Jerry T. Bonnell

We investigated the main prompt and afterglow emission parameters of gamma-ray bursts detected by the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) and X-Ray Telescope installed on the Swift satellite. Our aim was to look for differences or connections…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-05 J. Kóbori , Z. Bagoly , L. G. Balázs , I. Horváth

Unsupervised pattern recognition algorithms support the existence of three gamma-ray burst classes; Class I (long, large fluence bursts of intermediate spectral hardness), Class II (short, small fluence, hard bursts), and Class III (soft…

In this paper we give a brief review of our recent studies on the long and short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected Swift, in an effort to understand the puzzle of classifying GRBs. We consider that it is still an appealing conjecture that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-29 Lang Shao , Fu-Wen Zhang , Zi-Gao Dai , Zhi-Ping Jin , Jing-Zhi Yan , Da-Ming Wei

To date, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) onboard Swift has detected ~ 1000 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), of which ~ 360 GRBs have redshift measurements, ranging from z = 0.03 to z = 9.38. We present the analyses of the BAT-detected GRBs for the…

We have searched for the third, 'intermediate', subgroup of gamma-ray bursts among nearly 400 gamma-ray bursts observed by the Swift satellite. The standard chi^2 method and F-test were applied which give support for the existence of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-04-21 D. Huja , J. Ripa

Gamma-ray bursts are traditionally classified as short and long bursts based on their $T_{\rm 90}$ value (the time interval during which an instrument observes $5\%$ to $95\%$ of gamma-ray/hard X-ray fluence). However, $T_{\rm 90}$ is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-10 Dimple , Kuntal Misra , Ankur Ghosh , K. G. Arun , Rahul Gupta , Amit Kumar , L. Resmi , S. B. Pandey , Lallan Yadav

We review the T_90 duration and hardness ratio of Swift Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). We focus on GRBs with known redshift and review their gamma properties in the GRBs rest frames. We find that GRBs number vs. T_90/(1+z) distribution shows a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-06-30 Andreja Gomboc , Drejc Kopac

We have recently completed a search of 6 years of archival BATSE data for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) that were too faint to activate the real-time burst detection system running onboard the spacecraft. These "non-triggered" bursts can be…

With its rapid-response capability and multiwavelength complement of instruments, the Swift satellite has transformed our physical understanding of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Providing high-quality observations of hundreds of bursts, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 N. Gehrels , E. Ramirez-Ruiz , D. B. Fox

We present a carefully selected sample of short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) observed by the Swift satellite up to June 2013. Inspired by the criteria we used to build a similar sample of bright long GRBs (the BAT6 sample), we selected SGRBs…

Using Gaussian Mixture Model (GMM) and Expectation Maximization Algorithm, we perform an analysis of time duration ($T_{90}$) for \textit{CGRO}/BATSE, \textit{Swift}/BAT and \textit{Fermi}/GBM Gamma-Ray Bursts. The $T_{90}$ distributions of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-01 En-Bo Yang , Zhi-Bin Zhang , Chul-Sung Choi , Heon-Young Chang

We find that dim gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are softer than bright GRBs, as indicated on average by data from the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory. We show that this correlation is…

Several papers were written about the gamma-ray burst (GRBs) groups. Our statistical study is based on the durations and hardness ratios of the Swift and RHESSI data.

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-09-10 J. Ripa , D. Huja , A. Meszaros , C. Wigger

The well-known hardness-duration correlation of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is investigated with the data of the 4B catalog. We find that, while the hardness ratio and the duration are obviously correlated for the entire set of the 4B catalog,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yi-Ping Qin , Guang-Zhong Xie , Sui-Jian Xue , Xue-Tang Zheng , Dong-Cheng Mei

We present the first systematic investigation of the morphological and timing properties of flares in GRBs observed by Swift/XRT. We consider a large sample drawn from all GRBs detected by Swift, INTEGRAL and HETE-2 prior to 2006 Jan 31,…

Gamma-Ray bursts (GRBs) have been traditionally classified based on their duration. The increasing number of extended emission (EE) GRBs, lasting typically more than 2 seconds but with properties similar to those of a short GRBs, challenges…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 K. Garcia-Cifuentes , R. L. Becerra , F. De Colle , J. I. Cabrera , C. del Burgo

Two different multivariate clustering techniques, the K-means partitioning method and the Dirichlet process of mixture modeling, have been applied to the BATSE Gamma-ray burst (GRB) catalog, to obtain the optimum number of coherent groups.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-22 Tanuka Chattopadhyay , Ranjeev Misra , Asis Kumar Chattopadhyay , Malay Naskar

Two classes of GRBs, short and long, have been determined without any doubts, and are usually prescribed to different physical scenarios. A third class, intermediate in $T_{90}$ durations, has been reported to be present in the datasets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 Mariusz Tarnopolski

This is the first in a series of gamma-ray burst spectroscopy catalogs from the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory, each covering a different aspect of burst phenomenology. In this paper, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. D. Preece , M. S. Briggs , R. S. Mallozzi , G. N. Pendleton , W. S. Paciesas , D. L. Band