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Aims. We analyze and characterize the angular distribution of selected samples of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) from Batse and Swift data to confirm that the division in two classes of short- and long-duration GRBs correspond also to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-15 Fabrizio Tamburini

We study the soft X-ray variability of Cygnus X-3. By combining data from the All-Sky Monitor and Proportional Counter Array instruments on the RXTE satellite with EXOSAT Medium Energy (ME) detector observations, we are able to analyse the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-11-13 Magnus Axelsson , Stefan Larsson , Linnea Hjalmarsdotter

The isotropic distribution of gamma-ray bursts as observed with the Burst and Transient Experiment (BATSE) strongly suggests that the bursts are at cosmological distances. At such distances, the expansion of the universe should redshift the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Ed E. Fenimore , Joshua S. Bloom

This paper reports statistically significant correlations between various burst parameters, observed in a sample of 156 GRBs belonging to BATSE 4B catalog with T90 less than 2 s. The number of subpulses in a burst is strongly correlated not…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Varsha Gupta , Patrick Das Gupta , P. N. Bhat

We present the results of analysing the long-term radio variability of active galactic nuclei at 37 GHz using data of 123 sources observed in the Aalto University Mets\"ahovi Radio Observatory. Our aim was to constrain the characteristic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-12-12 Sofia Kankkunen , Merja Tornikoski , Talvikki Hovatta , Anne Lähteenmäki

We use Bayesian methods to analyze the distribution of gamma ray burst intensities reported in the Third BATSE Catalog (3B catalog) of gamma ray bursts, presuming the distribution of burst sources (``bursters'') is isotropic. We study both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Thomas J. Loredo , Ira M. Wasserman

In this paper we present the observations performed by the BeppoSAX Gamma-Ray Burst Monitor (GRBM) and Wide Field Cameras (WFC) of GB960720. We derive a precise localization (3 arcmin radius) and fast broad band (2-700 keV) spectral…

In this work, we update and enlarge the long gamma-ray burst (GRB) sample detected by the {\it Swift} satellite. Given the incomplete sampling of the faint bursts and the low completeness in redshift measurement, we carefully select a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-15 Guang-Xuan Lan , Jun-Jie Wei , Hou-Dun Zeng , Ye Li , Xue-Feng Wu

The X-ray variability of active galactic nuclei (AGN) carries crucial information about the X-ray radiation mechanism. We performed a systematic study of the X-ray short-term (1-100 ks timescale) variability for a large sample of 78…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-14 Jingwei Hu , Chichuan Jin , Huaqing Cheng , Weimin Yuan

We investigated the rest frame spectral lags of two complete samples of bright long (50) and short (6) gamma-ray bursts (GRB) detected by Swift. We analysed the Swift/BAT data through a discrete cross-correlation function (CCF) fitted with…

It was found by Amati et al. in 2002 that for a small sample of 9 gamma-ray bursts, more distant events appear to be systematically harder in the soft gamma-ray band. Here, we have collected a larger sample of 65 gamma-ray bursts, whose…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-18 J. J. Geng , Y. F. Huang

We investigate the short-term variability properties and the power spectral density (PSD) of the Broad-Line Radio Galaxy (BLRG) 3C 390.3 using observations made by XMM, RXTE, and Suzaku on several occasions between October 2004 and December…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-06 M. Gliozzi , I. E. Papadakis , M. Eracleous , R. M. Sambruna , D. R. Ballantyne , V. Braito , J. N. Reeves

We present an analysis of X-ray variability in a flux limited sample of QSOs. Selected from our deep ROSAT survey, these QSOs span a wide range in redshift ($0.1<z<3.2$) and are typically very faint, so we have developed a method to…

We presented the results of several statistical tests of the randomness in the angular sky-distribution of gamma-ray bursts in BATSE Catalog. Thirteen different tests were presented based on Voronoi tesselation, Minimal spanning tree and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-03-03 L. G. Balazs , I. Horvath , R. Vavrek , Z. Bagoly , A. Meszaros

In almost any scenario for 'cosmological' gamma-ray bursts (and in many models where they originate in our own Galaxy), the initial energy density is so large that the resulting relativistic plasma expands with $v\sim c$ producing a blast…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 P. Meszaros , M. J. Rees

Blazars exhibit stochastic flux variability across the electromagnetic spectrum, often exhibiting heavy-tailed flux distributions, commonly modeled as lognormal. However, Tavecchio et al. (2020) and Adams et al. (2022) found that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Aryeh Brill

The goal of our study is to provide a reliable classification of variability of A-F stars brighter than 11 mag located in the northern TESS continuous viewing zone. We also aim at thorough discussion about issues in the classification…

Two classes of gamma-ray bursts were identified in the BATSE catalogs characterized by their durations. There were also some indications for the existence of a third type of gamma-ray bursts. Swift satellite detectors have different…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-21 I. Horvath , Z. Bagoly , L. G. Balazs , G. Tusnady , P. Veres

We show that the rms-flux relation recently discovered in the X-ray light curves of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) and X-ray binaries (XRBs) implies that the light curves have a formally non-linear, exponential form, provided the rms-flux…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 P. Uttley , I. M. McHardy , S. Vaughan

It has been recently argued that low-luminosity gamma-ray bursts (LL-GRBs) are likely a unique GRB population. Here, we present systematic analysis of the lightcurve characteristics from X-ray to gamma-ray energy bands for the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Fu-Wen Zhang