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A sample of almost 400 Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the RHESSI satellite is studied statistically. We focus on GRB duration and hardness ratio and use the statistical chi^2 test and the F-test to compare the number of GRB subgroups…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Ripa , D. Huja , R. Hudec , W. Hajdas , C. Wigger

A sample of 427 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), measured by the RHESSI satellite, is studied statistically with respect to duration and hardness ratio. Standard statistical tests are used, such as $\chi^2$, F-test and the maximum likelihood ratio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 J. Řípa , A. Mészáros , C. Wigger , D. Huja , R. Hudec , W. Hajdas

A sample of 427 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), measured by the RHESSI satellite, is studied statistically to determine the number of GRB groups. Previous studies based on the BATSE Catalog and recently on the Swift data claim the existence of an…

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

A sample of 286 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Swift satellite and 358 GRBs detected by the RHESSI satellite are studied statistically. Previously published articles, based on the BATSE GRB Catalog, claimed the existence of an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 J. Ripa , D. Huja , A. Meszaros , R. Hudec , W. Hajdas , C. Wigger

A sample of 427 gamma-ray bursts from a database (February 2002 - April 2008) of the RHESSI satellite is analyzed statistically. The spectral lags and peak-count rates, which have been calculated for the first time in this paper, are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Jakub Ripa , Attila Meszaros , Peter Veres , Il H. Park

Some articles based on the BATSE gamma-ray burst (GRB) catalog claim the existence of a third population of GRBs, besides long and short. In this contribution we wanted to verify these claims with an independent data source, namely the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-31 J. Ripa , A. Meszaros , R. Hudec , C. Wigger , W. Hajdas

The intermediate-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) identified in the data of the RHESSI satellite are investigated with respect to their spectral lags, peak count rates, redshifts, supernova observations, and star formation rates of their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 J. Ripa , P. Veres , A. Meszaros

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

Classification of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) into groups has been intensively studied by various statistical tests in previous years. It has been suggested that there was a distinct group of GRBs, beyond the long and short ones, with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-26 Jakub Řípa , Attila Mészáros

The Ge spectrometer of the RHESSI satellite is sensitive to Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) from about 40 keV up to 17 MeV, thus ideally complementing the Swift/BAT instrument whose sensitivity decreases above 150 keV. We present preliminary…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 C. Wigger , W. Hajdas , A. Zehnder , K. Hurley , E. Bellm , S. Boggs , M. Bandstra , D. M. Smith

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are detectable out to very large distances and as such are potentially powerful cosmological probes. Historically, the angular distribution of GRBs provided important information about their origin and physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-11 T. N. Ukwatta , P. R. Wozniak

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

Previously we proposed a novel method to inspect the isotropy of the properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) such as their duration, fluences and peak fluxes at various energy bands and different time scales, complementary to existing studies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-07 Jakub Řípa , Arman Shafieloo

The durations of 388 gamma-ray bursts, detected by the Swift satellite, are studied statistically in order to search for their subgroups. Then the results are compared with the results obtained earlier from the BATSE database. The standard…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 D. Huja , A. Meszaros , J. Ripa

Simple hardness ratios are found to be a good estimator for the spectral peak energy in Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Specifically, a high correlation strength is found between the $\nu F_{\nu}$ peak in the spectrum of BATSE GRBs, $\epo$, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-05 Amir Shahmoradi , Robert J. Nemiroff

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 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

In order to obtain an overview of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), we need a full sample. In this paper, we collected 6289 GRBs (from GRB 910421 to GRB 160509A) from the literature, including prompt emission, afterglow and host galaxy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-13 Feifei Wang , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Fuxiang Liu , Bin Liao , Yu Liu , Yating Chai , Lei Xia

We report the results of the rapid follow-up observations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Fermi satellite to search for associated fast radio bursts. The observations were conducted with the Australian Square Kilometre Array…

Clustering methods are an important tool to enumerate and describe the different coherent kinds of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). But their performance can be affected by a number of factors such as the choice of clustering algorithm and inherent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-13 Souradeep Chattopadhyay , Ranjan Maitra
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