Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2004-08-04
Nature 430 (2004) 646
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
11 pages, 3 figures
Scientific paper
10.1038/nature02748
Much of progress in gamma-ray bursts has come from the studies of distant events (redshift z~1). The brightest GRBs are the most collimated events and seen across the Universe due to their brilliance. It has long been suspected that nearest (and most common) events have been missed because they are not so collimated or under-energetic or both. Here we report soft gamma-ray observations of GRB 031203, the nearest event to date (z=0.106). This event with a duration of 40 s and peak energy of >190 keV appears to be a typical long duration GRB. However, the isotropic gamma-ray energy <~10^50 erg, about three orders of magnitude smaller than the cosmological population. This event as well as the other nearby but somewhat controversial event GRB 980425 are clear outliers for the much discussed isotropic-energy peak-energy relation and luminosity spectral-lag relations. Radio calorimetry shows that both these events are under-energetic explosions. We conclude that there does indeed exist a large population of under-energetic events.
Lutovinov Alexander A.
Sazonov Sergei
Sunyaev Rachid
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