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Although it is generally assumed that there are two dominant classes of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) with different typical durations, it has been difficult to unambiguously classify GRBs as short or long from summary properties such as duration,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 Charles L. Steinhardt , William J. Mann , Vadim Rusakov , Christian K. Jespersen

The Fermi GBM Catalog has been recently published. Previous classification analyses of the BATSE, RHESSI, BeppoSAX, and Swift databases found three types of gamma-ray bursts. Now we analyzed the GBM catalog to classify the GRBs. PCA and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 I. Horvath , L. G. Balázs , J. Hakkila , Z. Bagoly , R. D. Preece

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

We use ESX, a product of Information Acumen Corporation, to perform unsupervised learning on a data set containing 797 gamma-ray bursts taken from the BATSE 3B catalog. Assuming all attributes to be distributed logNormally, Mukherjee et al.…

The clusters of gamma-ray bursts are considered which are assumed to be images of the repeated gamma-ray burst (GRB) sources. It is shown, that localization of the cosmic gamma-ray burst sources (GBS) is determined by the clusters of GRBs.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. V. Kuznetsov

Two classes of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), short and long, have been determined without any doubts, and are usually ascribed to different progenitors, yet these classes overlap for a variety of descriptive parameters. A subsample of 46 long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-05 Mariusz Tarnopolski

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 class. Swift satellite…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-10-01 I. Horvath , L. G. Balazs , Z. Bagoly , P. Veres

Many different physical processes have been suggested to explain the prompt gamma-ray emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Although there are examples of both bursts with photospheric and synchrotron emission origins, these distinct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Zeynep Acuner , Felix Ryde

Characterising and distinguishing gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has interested astronomers for many decades. While some authors have found two or three groups of GRBs by analyzing only a few parameters, recent work identified five…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-28 Fan Dai , Ranjan Maitra

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

We present a systematic spectral analysis of 350 bright Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) observed with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE; $\sim$ 30 keV -- 2 MeV) with high temporal and spectral resolution. Our sample was selected from…

We introduce a definition of gamma-ray burst (GRB) duty cycle that describes the GRB's efficiency as an emitter; it is the GRB's average flux relative to the peak flux. This GRB duty cycle is easily described in terms of measured BATSE…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jon Hakkila , Robert D. Preece , Geoffrey N. Pendleton

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are divided into two classes according to their durations. We investigate if the softness of bursts plays a role in the conventional classification of the objects. We employ the BATSE (Burst and Transient Source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-12 Y. -P. Qin , A. C. Gupta , J. H. Fan , C. -Y. Su , R. -J. Lu

The division of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) into different classes, other than the "short" and "long", has been an active field of research. We investigate whether GRBs can be classified based on a broader set of parameters, including prompt…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-28 Shubham Bhardwaj , Maria G. Dainotti , Sachin Venkatesh , Aditya Narendra , Anish Kalsi , Enrico Rinaldi , Agnieszka Pollo

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

The empirical classification of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) into long and short GRBs based on their durations is already firmly established. This empirical classification is generally linked to the physical classification of GRBs originating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-17 Jia-Wei Luo , Fei-Fei Wang , Jia-Ming Zhu-Ge , Ye Li , Yuan-Chuan Zou , Bing Zhang

Classification of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been a long-standing puzzle in high-energy astrophysics. Recent observations challenge the traditional short vs. long viewpoint, where long GRBs are thought to originate from the collapse of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-02 Dimple , K. Misra , K. G. Arun

Gamma-ray bursts can be divided into three groups ("short", "intermediate", "long") with respect to their durations. The third type of gamma-ray bursts - as known - has the intermediate duration. We show that the intermediate group is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. Horvath , F. Ryde , L. G. Balazs , Z. Bagoly , A. Meszaros

One of the most important task of the Gamma-Ray Burst field is the classification of the bursts. Many researches have proven the existence of the third kind (intermediate duration) of GRBs in the BATSE data. Recent works have analyzed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-30 I. Horvath , Z. Bagoly , A. de Ugarte Postigo , L. G. Balazs , P. Veres

Traditionally gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are classified in the $T_{90}$-hardness ratio two-dimensional plane into long/soft and short/hard GRBs. In this paper, we suggest to add the "amplitude" of GRB prompt emission as the third dimension as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Hou-Jun Lü , Bing Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Bin-Bin Zhang , Takanori Sakamoto