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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

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are both linked to compact-object activity, yet their possible connection remains unclear. Here we perform a systematic search for spatial and temporal associations between FRBs in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-14 Yi-Fang Liang , Ye Li , Bao Wang , Xuan Yang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Xue-Feng Wu

BATSE, Ulysses, and TGRS and KONUS on WIND detected four gamma-ray events within 1.8 days during 1996 October 27-29, consistent with coming from the same location on the sky. We assess the evidence that these events may be due to a series…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Carlo Graziani , Donald Q. Lamb , Jean M. Quashnock

We examined the properties of a sample of BATSE Gamma--Ray Bursts (GRBs) comprising events which have indications of association with a supernova (SN), some on the basis of indications of re--brightening in the optical afterglow light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Z. Bosnjak , A. Celotti , G. Ghirlanda , M. Della Valle , E. Pian

The anisotropy of the sky distribution of 2025 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) collected in Current BATSE catalog is confirmed. It is shown that the quadrupole term being proportional to $\sim \sin 2b \sin l$ is non-zero with a probability 99.9%.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 L. G. Balazs , A. Meszaros , I. Horvath , R. Vavrek

We extend the Kolmogorov--Smirnov (K-S) test to multiple dimensions by suggesting a $\mathbb{R}^n \rightarrow [0,1]$ mapping based on the probability content of the highest probability density region of the reference distribution under…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Diana Harrison , David Sutton , Pedro Carvalho , Michael Hobson

The binary neutron star merger responsible for the gravitational wave event, GW170817, strengthened the merger association with short-duration gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs) following the detection of the SGRB counterpart, GRB 170817A. Here we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-02 Soheb Mandhai , Nial Tanvir , Gavin Lamb , Andrew Levan , David Tsang

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

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are traditionally classified into long (lGRBs) and short (sGRBs) durations based on their $T_{90}$, with lGRBs widely used as tracers of the cosmic star formation rate (SFR) due to their observed association with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-15 Qin-Mei Li , Qi-Bin Sun , Sheng-Bang Qian , Fu-Xing Li

Using four mixed bivariate distributions (Normal distribution, Skew-Normal distribution, Student distribution, Skew-Student distribution) and bootstrap re-sampling analysis, we analyze the samples of CGRO/BATSE, Swift/BAT and Fermi/GBM…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-09 Liang Zhang , Juan-Juan Luo , Yong-Feng Huang , Yu-Jun Gong , Sheng Wu

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

The consistence of the distributions of pulsar's kick velocities from the model of GRB and from the pulsar observations is tested based on the supernova-GRB ($\gamma$-ray burst) association and under the assumption that the GRB asymmetric…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 X. H. Cui , H. G. Wang , R. X. Xu , G. J. Qiao

Recently, several new correlations between the observed $\gamma$-ray and the X-ray properties of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) were inferred from a comprehensive analysis of the X-ray light curves of more than 650 GRBs measured with the Swift…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar

We investigate the angular distribution of gamma-ray bursts using the largest catalog of well-localized events that is currently available---combined BATSE/Ulysses burst locations. We present the preliminary spatial analysis of 415…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. M. Kippen , K. Hurley , G. N. Pendleton

Possibly the only unambiguous verification that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are at cosmological distances would be the observation of multiple images of a gravitationally lensed burst. Each images would arrive at a different time, but exhibit…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 S. A. Grossman , M. A. Nowak

We present a systematic search for short-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the local Universe based on 14 years of observations with the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory. We cross-correlate the GRB positions with the GLADE catalogue of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 S. Dichiara , E. Troja , B. O'Connor , F. E. Marshall , P. Beniamini , J. K. Cannizzo , A. Y. Lien , T. Sakamoto

In the $k$-nearest neighborhood model ($k$-NN), we are given a set of points $P$, and we shall answer queries $q$ by returning the $k$ nearest neighbors of $q$ in $P$ according to some metric. This concept is crucial in many areas of data…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2018-12-03 Hendrik Fichtenberger , Dennis Rohde

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

The various possibilities for the progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) manifest in differing observable properties. Through deep spectroscopic and high-resolution imaging observations of some GRB hosts, I demonstrate that well-localized…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Joshua S. Bloom

The paper applies a new, nonparametric, interpoint distance-based measure to confirm the inherent groups prevailing in the brightest source of light in the universe: gamma-ray bursts. Our effective metric, in association with clustering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 Soumita Modak