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The redshift distribution of gamma-ray bursts collected in the BATSE Catalog is compared with the star formation rate. We aim to clarify the accordance between them. We also study the case of comoving number density of bursts monotonously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 A. Meszaros , Z. Bagoly , L. G. Balazs , I. Horvath

Kouveliotou et al. (1993) recently confirmed that gamma-ray bursts are bimodal in duration. In this paper we compute the statistical properties of the short ($\le 2$~s) and long ($>2$~s) bursts using a method of analysis that makes no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Shude Mao , Ramesh Narayan , Tsvi Piran

Data from the 3B Catalogue suggest that short and long GRB are the results of different classes of events, rather than different parameter values within a single class: Short bursts have harder spectra in the BATSE bands, but chiefly long…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. I. Katz , L. M. Canel

One of the most important task of the Gamma-Ray Burst field is the classification of the bursts. Many researches have proven the existence of the third kind (intermediate duration) of GRBs in the BATSE data. Recent works have analyzed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-30 I. Horvath , Z. Bagoly , A. de Ugarte Postigo , L. G. Balazs , P. Veres

The positions of over 1000 gamma-ray bursts detected with the BATSE experiment on board of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory are uniformly and randomly distributed in the sky, with no significant concentration to the galactic plane or to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Bohdan Paczynski

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

We compare the burst distribution of the new (2B) BATSE catalogue to a cosmological distribution. We find that the distribution is insensitive to cosmological parameters such as Omega and Lambda and to the width of the bursts luminosity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Ehud Cohen , Tsafrir Kolatt , Tsvi Piran

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

The distribution of GRB durations is bimodal, but there is little additional evidence to support the division of GRBs into short and long classes. Based on simple hardness ratios, several studies have shown a tendency for longer GRBs to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 W. S. Paciesas , R. D. Preece , M. S. Briggs , R. S. Mallozzi

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

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

It was recently shown that the $T_{90}-H_{32}$ distributions of gamma-ray bursts from CGRO/BATSE and Fermi/GBM are well described by a mixture of only two skewed components, making the presumed third, intermediate class unnecesary. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-03 Mariusz Tarnopolski

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

Two classes of Gamma Ray Bursts have been identified so far, characterized by T90 durations shorter and longer than approximately 2 seconds. It was shown that the BATSE 3B data allow a good fit with three Gaussian distributions in log T90.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-02 Istvan Horvath

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are usually classified into long/short categories according to their durations, but controversy still exists in this aspect. Here we re-examine the long/short classification of GRBs and further compare the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-02 Juan-Juan Luo , Liang Zhang , Li-Yun Zhang , Yong-Feng Huang , Jia-Quan Lin , Jun-Wang Lu , Xiao-Fei Dong

Decades ago two classes of gamma-ray bursts were identified and delineated as having durations shorter and longer than about 2 s. Subsequently indications also supported the existence of a third class. Using maximum likelihood estimation we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-27 I. Horvath , B. G. Toth

Following the discovery by Quashnock and Lamb (1993) of an apparent excess of $\gamma$-ray burst pairs with small angular separations, we reanalyze the angular distribution of the bursts in the BATSE catalogue. We find that in addition to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Ramesh Narayan , Tsvi Piran

We propose a new, simple but powerful algorithm to analyze the gamma-ray burst temporal structures based on identifying non-statistical variations (``peaks'') in the time histories. Detailed analyses of the bursts from the third BATSE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Hui Li , Edward E. Fenimore

Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are traditionally divided to long and short according to their durations (>/< 2 sec). It was generally believed that this reflects a different physical origin: Collapsars (long) and non-Collapsars (short). We have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Omer Bromberg , Ehud Nakar , Tsvi Piran , Re'em Sari

The distribution of the apparent total energy emitted by a gamma-ray burst reflects not only the distribution of the energy actually released by the burst engine, but also the distribution of beaming angles. Using the observed energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 David L. Band