An Off-line Scan of the BATSE Daily Records and a Large Uniform Sample of Gamma-Ray Bursts

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2000-09-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0009447v2

Astrophys.J. 563 (2001) 80

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

14 pages; 23 figures; revised version accepted to ApJ; electronic version of Table 2 is available at ftp://ftp.astro.su.se/p

Scientific paper

10.1086/322295

During a scan of the archival BATSE daily records covering the entire 9.1 years (TJD 8369-11690) of the BATSE operation, 3906 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) have been detected. 2068 of these GRBs are previously known BATSE triggers while 1838 of them are new non-triggered bursts. It is important that all events were detected in the same type of data and were processed with the same procedure. Therefore these 3906 GRBs constitute a uniform sample. We have created a publically available electronic data base containing this sample. We describe the procedures of the data reduction, the selection of the GRB candidates, and the statistical tests for possible non-GRB contaminations. We also describe a novel test burst method used to measure the scan efficiency and the information obtained using the test bursts. Our scan decreases the BATSE detection threshold to ~0.1 photons/sec/cm2. As a first result, we show that the differential log N - log P distribution corrected for the detection efficiency extends to low brightnesses without any indication of a turn-over. Any reasonable extrapolation of the new log N - log P to lower brightnesses imply a rate of several thousands of GRBs in the Universe per year.

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