Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-12-16
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
accepted for publ. in A&A; 16 pages incl. 6 ps-figs.; LATEX with l-aa.sty
Scientific paper
We study positional coincidences between gamma-ray bursts in the BATSE 3B catalogue and quasars/AGN taken from the Veron-Cetty & Veron compilation. For most classes of AGN, for BL Lac objects and for radio-loud quasars, we find no excess coincidences above random expectation, and we give upper limits for their burst emission rate. However, surprising evidence is found for a positional correlation between gamma-ray bursts and radio-quiet quasars. A total of 134 selected bursts with a position error radius <1.8d and the nearest and intrinsically brightest radio-quiet quasars (M_v<-24.2 and z<1.0) have a probability of >99.7% to be associated with each other. An analysis of a smaller sample of well-localized interplanetary network gamma-ray burst positions supports this result. This correlation strongly favours the cosmological origin of gamma-ray bursts and enables to estimate its distance scale. The average luminosity of those gamma-ray bursts which we associate directly with radio-quiet quasars is of the order of 4*10^52 erg (assuming isotropic emission).
Andernach Heinz
Greiner Jochen
Schartel Norbert
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