Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1999-10-20
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
To appear in Gamma-Ray Bursts: The First Three Minutes, vol. 190 of the ASP Conference Series, ed. Juri Poutanen and Roland Sv
Scientific paper
The evidence for spectral features in gamma-ray bursts is summarized. As a guide for evaluating the evidence, the properties of gamma-ray detectors and the methods of analyzing gamma-ray spectra are reviewed. In the 1980's, observations indicated that absorption features below 100 keV were present in a large fraction of bright gamma-ray bursts. There were also reports of emission features around 400 keV. During the 1990's the situation has become much less clear. A small fraction of bursts observed with BATSE have statistically significant low-energy features, but the reality of the features is suspect because in several cases the data of the BATSE detectors appear to be inconsistent. Furthermore, most of the possible features appear in emission rather than the expected absorption. Analysis of data from other instruments has either not been finalized or has not detected lines.
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