Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astronomy
Scientific paper
Nov 1993
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993asee.nasaq....l&link_type=abstract
In Alabama Univ., The 1993 NASA/ASEE Summer Faculty Fellowship Program 5 p (SEE N94-24405 06-80)
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astronomy
Algorithms, Cosmology, Gamma Ray Bursts, Gamma Ray Observatory, Histograms, Spaceborne Astronomy, Brightness, Gamma Rays, Graphs (Charts)
Scientific paper
One of the current debates raging in the world of gamma-ray burst physics is whether the sources of these enigmatic bursts arise from a single or from multiple distributions. Several authors contend that the histograms of GRB observables imply the latter. The two most-likely candidate components are galactic and cosmological. For example, some researchers claim that a dip in the V/V max distribution is a result of such a two-component source distribution. Others have used a parameter called the 'burst variability' calculated by dividing the maximum count rate on the 64-msec timescale by that from the 1024-msec timescale to show that a correlation of this parameter with bursts brightness implies a two-component model. This method has met vigorous criticism. We have developed two parameters that measure the variability or structure in the time profiles of BATSE gamma-ray bursts. Both parameters ('structure' and 'spike height') are based on the statistics of 'runs up' and 'runs down.' In short, the structure parameter is the observed number of runs (at several lengths) minus the number expected in a chance distribution. The 'spike height' is the sum of all run heights minus the expected sum. These two are straight-forward to calculate, robust, and measure the variability over the complete profile--not just at the peak. We have applied this algorithm to the profiles of 156 GRB's. In this paper we present graphs of the two parameters as functions of the following: (1) burst duration, (2) burst hardness ratio, (3) V/V max, (4) source galactic longitude, and (5) source galactic latitude. We seek correlations as well as groupings in the data that might indicate a multi-component source distribution.
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