Temporal properties of gamma-ray bursts as signatures of jets from the central engine

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2001-12-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0112515v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

19 pages, 22 figures. Submitted to A&A July 2001

Scientific paper

10.1051/0004-6361:20020038

A comprehensive temporal analysis has been performed on the 319 brightest GRBs with T90>2s from the BATSE current catalog. The rise times, fall times, full-widths at half maximum (FWHM), pulse amplitudes and pulse areas were measured and the frequency distributions are presented here. The distribution of time intervals between pulses is not random but compatible with a lognormal distribution when allowance was made for the 64 ms time resolution and a small excess (5%) of long duration intervals that is often referred to as a Pareto-Levy tail. A range of correlations are presented on pulse and burst properties. The rise and fall times, FWHM and area of the pulses are highly correlated with each other. The time intervals between pulses and pulse amplitudes of neighbouring pulses are correlated with each other. It was also found that the number of pulses, N, in GRBs is strongly correlated with the fluence and the duration and that can explain the well known correlation between duration and fluence. The GRBs were sorted into three catagories based on N i.e. 3<=N<=12, 13<=N<=24, N>=25. The properties of pulses before and after the stongest pulse were compared for the three catagories of bursts. This analysis revealed that the GRBs with large numbers of pulses have narrower and faster pulses and also larger fluences, longer durations and higher hardness ratios than the GRBs with smaller numbers of pulses.

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