Do Gamma-Ray Burst Sources Repeat?

Details Do Gamma-Ray Burst Sources Repeat? Do Gamma-Ray Burst Sources Repeat?

1995-04-04

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9504010v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

ApJ Letters, in press, 13 pages, including three embedded figures. uuencoded Unix-compressed PostScript

Scientific paper

10.1086/187919

The demonstration of repeated gamma-ray bursts from an individual source would severely constrain burst source models. Recent reports (Quashnock and Lamb 1993; Wang and Lingenfelter 1993) of evidence for repetition in the first BATSE burst catalog have generated renewed interest in this issue. Here, we analyze the angular distribution of 585 bursts of the second BATSE catalog (Meegan et al. 1994). We search for evidence of burst recurrence using the nearest and farthest neighbor statistic and the two-point angular correlation function. We find the data to be consistent with the hypothesis that burst sources do not repeat; however, a repeater fraction of up to about 20% of the observed bursts cannot be excluded.

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