BATSE detection biases against ``slow rising'' gamma-ray bursts

Details BATSE detection biases against ``slow rising'' gamma-ray bursts BATSE detection biases against ``slow rising'' gamma-ray bursts

Aug 1996

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1996aipc..384..402h&link_type=abstract

Gamma-ray bursts: 3rd Huntsville symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 384, pp. 402-406 (1996).

Physics

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Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts

Scientific paper

We investigate quantitatively the effect of a selection bias against the detection of slowly rising gamma-ray bursts. Weak bursts may not be detected when the slowly rising flux from the burst contributes to the background, increasing the threshold flux needed to trigger detection. To quantify the efficacy of this selection bias we employ Monte Carlo simulations, using the light curves of the most intense bursts from the BATSE catalog as burst templates. We find that this detection bias significantly affects the observed distribution of gamma-ray bursts.

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