A Principal Component Analysis of the 3B Gamma-Ray Burst Data

Details A Principal Component Analysis of the 3B Gamma-Ray Burst Data A Principal Component Analysis of the 3B Gamma-Ray Burst Data

1997-08-08

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9708084v2

Astrophys.J. 498 (1998) 342-350

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Ap.J., accepted 12/9/97; revised version contains a new appendix, somewhat expanded discussion; latex, aaspp4, 15 pages

Scientific paper

10.1086/305530

We have carried out a principal component analysis for 625 gamma-ray bursts in the BATSE 3B catalog for which non-zero values exist for the nine measured variables. This shows that only two out of the three basic quantities of duration, peak flux and fluence are independent, even if this relation is strongly affected by instrumental effects, and these two account for 91.6% of the total information content. The next most important variable is the fluence in the fourth energy channel (at energies above 320 keV). This has a larger variance and is less correlated with the fluences in the remaining three channels than the latter correlate among themselves. Thus a separate consideration of the fourth channel, and increased attention on the related hardness ratio $H43$ appears useful for future studies. The analysis gives the weights for the individual measurements needed to define a single duration, peak flux and fluence. It also shows that, in logarithmic variables, the hardness ratio $H32$ is significantly correlated with peak flux, while $H43$ is significantly anticorrelated with peak flux. The principal component analysis provides a potentially useful tool for estimating the improvement in information content to be achieved by considering alternative variables or performing various corrections on available measurements

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