Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics – High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Scientific paper
2012-02-29
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table. Accepted for publication by MNRAS
Scientific paper
We study the possible effects of selection biases on the Ep-Liso correlation caused by the unavoidable presence of flux-limits in the existing samples of Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs). We consider a well defined complete sample of Swift GRBs and perform Monte Carlo simulations of the GRB population under different assumptions for their luminosity functions. If we assume that there is no correlation between the peak energy Ep and the isotropic luminosity Liso, we are unable to reproduce it as due to the flux limit threshold of the Swift complete sample. We can reject the null hypothesis that there is no intrinsic correlation between Ep and Liso at more than 2.7 sigma level of confidence. This result is robust against the assumptions of our simulations and it is confirmed if we consider, instead of Swift, the trigger threshold of the Batse instrument. Therefore, there must be a physical relation between these two quantities. Our simulations seem to exclude, at a lower confidence level of 1.6 sigma, the possibility that the observed Ep-Liso correlation among different bursts is caused by a boundary, i.e. such that for any given Ep, we see only the largest Liso, which has a flux above the threshold of the current instruments.
Campana Sergio
Covino Stefano
D'Avanzo Paolo
Fugazza Dino
Ghirlanda Giancarlo
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