Testing the GRB Variability/Peak Luminosity correlation using the pseudo-redshifts of a large sample of BATSE GRBs

Details Testing the GRB Variability/Peak Luminosity correlation using the pseudo-redshifts of a large sample of BATSE GRBs Testing the GRB Variability/Peak Luminosity correlation using the pseudo-redshifts of a large sample of BATSE GRBs

2005-08-23

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0508483v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 364 (2005) 163-168

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

MNRAS, accepted, 6 pages, 4 figures

Scientific paper

10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.09545.x

We test the correlation found by Reichart et al. (2001) between time variability and peak luminosity of Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs). Recently Guidorzi et al. (2005) found that this still holds for a sample of 32 GRBs with spectroscopic redshift, although with a larger scatter than that originally found by Reichart et al. (2001). However Guidorzi et al. (2005) also found that a power law does not provide a good description of that. We report on the same test performed on a sample of 551 BATSE GRBs with a significant measure of variability assuming the pseudo-redshifts derived by Band et al. (2004) (1186 GRBs) through the anticorrelation between spectral lag and peak luminosity. We still find a correlation between variability as defined by Reichart et al. (2001) and peak luminosity with higher significance. However, this subsample of BATSE GRBs show a higher scatter around the best-fitting power law than that found by Reichart et al. (2001) in the variability/peak luminosity space. This is in agreement with the result found by Guidorzi et al. (2005) on a sample of 32 GRBs with measured redshift. These results confirm that a power law does not provide a satisfactory description for all the GRBs, in contrast with the original findings by Reichart et al. (2001).

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