A Search for Gamma-ray Burst Subgroups in the SWIFT and RHESSI Databases

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2009-12-19

arxiv.org/abs/0912.3945v1

AIPC, 1065 (2008) 71-74

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Published in Proceedings of the 2008 Nanjing Gamma-ray Burst Conference

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A sample of 286 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the Swift satellite and 358 GRBs detected by the RHESSI satellite are studied statistically. Previously published articles, based on the BATSE GRB Catalog, claimed the existence of an intermediate subgroup of GRBs with respect to duration. We use the statistical chi^2 test and the F-test to compare the number of GRB subgroups in our databases with the earlier BATSE results. Similarly to the BATSE database, the short and long subgroups are well detected in the Swift and RHESSI data. However, contrary to the BATSE data, we have not found a statistically significant intermediate subgroup in either Swift or RHESSI data.

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