Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-11-25
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages (LateX), 2 Postscript figures, Proceedings of the 4th Huntsville GRB Workshop
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.55422
Studies using the GRB brightness as a distance indicator require a measure of brightness with a small intrinsic dispersion (close to a standard candle). There is unfortunately no general agreement on the definition of such a quantity. We show here that the comparison of the size-frequency curves obtained with various measures of brightness can be used to select the quantity which is closer to a standard candle. Our method relies on a few general assumptions on the burster spatial distribution, namely that nearby bursters are homogeneously distributed in an Euclidean space with no density or luminosity evolution. We apply it to 5 measures of GRB brightness in the Current BATSE Catalog and we find that the GRB size-frequency distribution depends significantly on the energy window used to measure the GRB brightness. The influence of the time window being, in comparison, negligible. Our method suggests that the best distance indicator in this Catalog is the fluence measured below 100 keV, indicating that GRB luminosities have a smaller intrinsic dispersion below 100 keV than above.
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