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Possible correlations between gamma-ray burst and its host galaxy offset

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2019-03-01 v1

Abstract

We collected the information of 304 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) from the literature, and analyzed the correlations among the host galaxy offsets (the distance from the site of the GRB to the center of its host galaxy), T90,iT_{\rm 90,i} (the duration T90T_{\rm 90} in rest-frame), TR45,iT_{\rm R45,i} (the duration TR45T_{\rm R45} in rest-frame), Eγ,isoE_{\rm \gamma,iso} (the isotropic equivalent energy), Lγ,isoL_{\rm \gamma,iso} (=Eγ,iso/T90,i=E_{\rm \gamma,iso}/T_{\rm 90,i}, the isotropic equivalent luminosity) and LpkL_{\rm pk} (peak luminosity). We found that T90,i T_{\rm 90,i}, TR45,i T_{\rm R45,i}, Eγ,iso E_{\rm \gamma,iso}, LpkL_{\rm pk} have negative correlation with offset {\rm offset}, which is consistent with origin of short GRBs (SGRBs) and long GRBs (LGRBs). On separate analysis, we found similar results for logEγ,iso\log E_{\rm \gamma,iso} - log(offset)\log {\rm (offset)} and logLpk\log L_{\rm pk} - log(offset)\log {\rm (offset)} relations in case of SGRBs only, while no obvious relation for LGRBs. There is no correlations between offset and Lγ,isoL_{\rm \gamma,iso}. We also put the special GRB 170817A {and GRB 060218A} on the plots. {The two GRBs both have low luminosity and small offset.} In the log(offset)logT90,i \log ({\rm offset})- \log T_{\rm 90,i} plot, we found GRB 170817A locates in between the two regions of SGRBs and LGRBs and it is the outlier in the offsetEγ,iso {\rm offset}-E_{\rm \gamma, iso}, offsetLγ,iso {\rm offset}-L_{\rm \gamma, iso} and offsetLpk {\rm offset}-L_{\rm pk} plots. Together with GRB 060218A being an outlier in all plots, it indicates the speciality of GRBs 170817A and 060218A, and might imply more subgroups of the GRB samples.

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@article{arxiv.1902.11022,
  title  = {Possible correlations between gamma-ray burst and its host galaxy offset},
  author = {Fei-Fei Wang and Yuan-Chuan Zou and Yu Liu and Bin Liao and Reetanjali Moharana},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1902.11022},
  year   = {2019}
}

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30 pages, 6 figures

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