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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

Clustering is an important tool to describe gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We analyzed the Final BATSE Catalog using Gaussian-mixture-models-based clustering methods for six variables (durations, peak flux, total fluence and spectral hardness…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-05 B. G. Tóth , I. I. Rácz , I. Horváth

We have performed searches for isolated flares and for steady flickering in Gamma Ray Burst light curves on the microsecond to millisecond time scales. Two bursts out of our sample of 20 revealed four isolated flares with time scales from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-25 Katharine C. Walker , Bradley E. Schaefer , E. E. Fenimore

A recent study has presented marginal statistical evidence that gamma-ray burst sources are correlated with Abell clusters, based on analyses of bursts in the BATSE 3B catalog. Using precise localization information from the 3rd…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 K. Hurley , D. Hartmann , C. Kouveliotou , G. Fishman , J. Laros , T. Cline , M. Boer

Determining the kinds of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been of interest to astronomers for many years. We analyzed 1599 GRBs from the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) 4Br catalogue using $t$-mixtures-model-based clustering on all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-28 Souradeep Chattopadhyay , Ranjan Maitra

A multivariate analysis of gamma-ray burst (GRB) bulk properties is presented to discriminate between distinct classes of GRBs. Several variables representing burst duration, fluence and spectral hardness are considered. Two multivariate…

We cross correlate Gamma--Ray Bursts and X--Ray selected clusters of galaxies at z\leq0.45. We find a positive 2\sigma signal for the angular cross--correlation function w_{bc}(\theta) on scales \theta\leq 3 deg between short GRBs and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 G. Ghirlanda , M. Magliocchetti , G. Ghisellini , L. Guzzo

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

We report evidence from the 3B Catalogue that long ($T_{90} > 10$ s) and short ($T_{90} < 10$ s) gamma-ray bursts represent distinct source populations. Their spatial distributions are significantly different, with long bursts having…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. I. Katz , L. M. Canel

It is usual, in gamma-ray burst (GRB) studies, to compare the average properties of bright and faint GRBs, with the assumption that brightness classes reflect distance classes. When brightness is intented to reflect the distance to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 J-L. Atteia

This study is the first known attempt to search for gamma-ray burst repeaters combining data from gamma-ray experiments flying on board different satellites and making use of information derived from the bursts detected simultaneously by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Gorosabel , A. J. Castro-Tirado , S. Brandt , N. Lund

We study positional coincidences between gamma-ray bursts in the BATSE 3B catalogue and quasars/AGN taken from the Veron-Cetty & Veron compilation. For most classes of AGN, for BL Lac objects and for radio-loud quasars, we find no excess…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 N. Schartel , H. Andernach , J. Greiner

Gamma-ray bursts of short duration may harbor vital clues to the range of phenomena producing bursts. However, recent progress from the observation of optical counterparts has not benefitted the study of short bursts. We have searched for…

Based on the study of temporal asymmetry of 631 gamma ray bursts from the BATSE 3B catalog by Link and Epstein [Ap J 466, 764 (1996)], we identify the population of bursts whose rising times are longer than their decays, thus showing…

We compute the angular power spectrum C_l from the BATSE 3B catalog of 1122 gamma-ray bursts, and find no evidence for clustering on any scale. These constraints bridge the entire range from small scales (which probe source clustering and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-07 Max Tegmark , Dieter Hartmann , Michael Briggs , Charles Meegan

We studied the complete randomness of the angular distribution of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by BATSE. Since GRBs seem to be a mixture of objects of different physical nature we divided the BATSE sample into 5 subsamples (short1,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 R. Vavrek , L. G. Balázs , A. Mészáros , I. Horváth , Z. Bagoly

It has been recently discovered that the angular autocorrelation function of gamma-ray bursts exhibits sharp peaks at angular separations of $\lesssim 4\deg$ (Quashnock and Lamb 1993), and at $\gtrsim 176\deg$ (Narayan and Piran 1993).…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-06-08 Eyal Maoz

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

We have used the ROSAT High Resolution Imager to search for quiescent X-ray counterparts to four gamma-ray bursts which were localized to small (< 10 sq. arcmin.) error boxes with the Interplanetary Network. The observations took place…

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are mysterious bursts in the millisecond timescale at radio wavelengths. Currently, there is little understanding about the classification of repeating FRBs, based on difference in physics, which is of great…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Bjorn Jasper R. Raquel , Tetsuya Hashimoto , Tomotsugu Goto , Bo Han Chen , Yuri Uno , Tiger Yu-Yang Hsiao , Seong Jin Kim , Simon C. -C. Ho