Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2007-08-30
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 4 figures and 2 table; Accepted to A&A with minor changes; Note that our previously main conclusions are unchanged
Scientific paper
10.1051/0004-6361:20079210
We report the systematic analysis of the durations for Swift gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and compare the results with those of pre-Swift data. For 95 GRBs with known redshift, we show that the observed durations have two lognormal distributions that are clearly divided at $T_{90}\simeq2$ s. This is consistent with the earlier BATSE results. The intrinsic durations also show a bimodal distribution but shift systematically toward the smaller value and the distribution exhibits a narrower width compared with the observed one. We find that the intrinsic distributions of long GRBs between Swift and pre-Swift are significantly different particularly in the width and the median value. In addition, the Swift data exhibit a wider dynamic range of duration. Our present study not only confirms the spectra of short GRBs are in general harder than the long GRBs in the observer frame but also shows this trend becomes weaker in the source frame.
Choi Chul-Sung
Zhang Zhi-Bin
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