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We present the results of the spectral analysis of a sample of short bright $\gamma$--ray bursts (GRB) detected by BATSE and compare them with the average and time resolved spectral properties of long bright bursts. While the spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , A. Celotti

The power spectra of 457 short BATSE bursts were analyzed, focusing on the 64 ms lightcurves' tails in the low energy bands. Using MC simulations, 22 GRBs were identified with unusually high harmonic power above 0.03 Hz. The sky…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-22 Z. Bagoly , L. G. Balazs , P. Veres , A. Meszaros , I. Horvath

The absence of a BATSE line detection in a gamma-ray burst spectrum during the mission's first six years has led to a statistical analysis of the occurrence of lines in the BATSE burst database; this statistical analysis will still be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. Band , J. Matteson , M. Briggs , W. Paciesas , G. Pendleton , R. Preece

We study the spectra of short-bright GRBs detected by BATSE and compare them with the average and time resolved spectral properties of long-bright bursts. We confirm that short events are harder than long bursts, as already found from the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , A. Celotti

A Band function has become the standard spectral function used to describe the prompt emission spectra of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). However, deviations from this function have previously been observed in GRBs detected by BATSE and in…

A five-parameter expression for a smoothly broken power law is presented. It is used to fit Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) spectra observed by BATSE. The function is compared to previously used four-parameter functions, such as a sharply broken…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Felix Ryde

We present a catalog of the probabilistic redshift estimates and for 1366 individual Long-duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (LGRBs) detected by the Burst And Transient Source Experiment (BATSE). This result is based on a careful selection and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-04 Joshua A. Osborne , Amir Shahmoradi , Robert J. Nemiroff

While Gamma-Ray Burst (GRBs) are clear and distinct observed events, every individual GRB is unique. In fact, GRBs are known for their variable behaviour, and BATSE was already able to discover two categories of GRB from the T90…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-25 Karlijn Kruiswijk , Gwenhaël de Wasseige

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

We present preliminary results of an off-line search for non-triggered gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in the BATSE daily records for about 5.7 years of observations. We found more GRB-like events than the yield of the similar search of Kommers et…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 B. Stern , Ya. Tikhomirova , M. Stepanov , D. Kompaneets , A. Berezhnoy , R. Svensson

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

We searched for anomalously long GRBs (GRBs) in the archival records of the Burst and Transient Sources Experiment (BATSE). Ten obvious superlong (>500 s) GRBs with almost continuous emission episodes were found. Nine of these events are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Yana Tikhomirova , Boris E. Stern

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

It is often stated that gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have typical energies of several hundreds $\keV$, where the typical energy may be characterized by the hardness H, the photon energy corresponding to the peak of $\nu F_{\nu}$. Among the 54…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Ehud Cohen , Tsvi Piran , Ramesh Narayan

The prompt emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is still unclear, and the time-resolved spectral analysis of GRBs is a powerful tool for studying their underlying physical processes. We performed a detailed time-resolved spectral…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 Wan-Kai Wang , Wei Xie , Zhi-Fu Gao , Shuo Xiao , Ai-Jun Dong , Bin Zhang , Qi-Jun Zhi

The CGRO/BATSE database includes many types of data such as the 16-channel continuous background or medium energy resolution burst data (CONT and MER data types). We have calculated some four hundred burst's medium energy resolution spectra…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-11 P. Veres , I. Horvath , L. G. Balazs

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…

The physical importance of the apparent discrepancy between the detections by pre-BATSE missions of absorption lines in gamma-ray burst spectra and the absence of a BATSE line detection necessitates a statistical analysis of this…

We study time-resolved spectra of the prompt emission of Swift Gamma-ray bursts (GRB). Our goal is to see if previous BATSE claims of the existence of a large amount of spectra with the low energy photon indices harder than 2/3 are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 V. Savchenko , A. Neronov

Using the modified internal shock wave model we fit the gamma ray burst (GRB) light and spectral curves of 30 GRBs observed with BATSE. From the best fitting we obtain basic parameters of the relativistic shells which are in good agreement…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Sasa Simić , Luka Č. Popović