Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1997-09-12
Astrophys.J. 510: 312:324, 1999
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
13 pages; 11 figures; replaced with the published version
Scientific paper
10.1086/306548
We observe strong correlations between the temporal properties of gamma ray bursts (GRBs) and their apparent peak brightness. The strongest effect (with a significance level of 10^{-6}) is the difference between the brightness distributions of simple bursts (dominated by a single smooth pulse) and complex bursts (consisting of overlapping pulses). The latter has a break at a peak flux of 1.5 ph/cm^2/s, while the distribution of simple bursts is smooth down to the BATSE threshold. We also observe brightness dependent variations in the shape of the average peak aligned time profile (ATP) of GRBs. The decaying slope of the ATP shows time dilation when comparing bright and dim bursts while the rising slope hardly changes. Both slopes of the ATP are deformed for weak bursts as compared to strong bursts. The interpretation of these effects is simple: a complex burst where a number of independent pulses overlap in time appears intrinsically stronger than a simple burst. Then the BATSE sample of complex bursts covers larger redshifts where some cosmological factor causes the break in the peak brightness distribution. This break could correspond to the peak in the star formation rate that was recently shown to occur at a redshift of z~1.5.
Poutanen Juri
Stern Boris
Svensson Roland
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