Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Mar 1995
adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1995ap%26ss.225..241s&link_type=abstract
Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 225, Issue 2, pp.241-247
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Scientific paper
Claims continue to be made that detector selection effects can explain the deviation of the gamma-ray burst brightness distributions from the -3/2 power law expected for homogeneous burst sources. However, these effects are insufficient to explain the BATSE observations. The BATSE sensitivity threshold does vary with time, independent of the burst brightness; however, a homogeneous distribution of standard candle sources would still produce a -3/2 power law. The variation in the threshold does affect inhomogeneous source models. As an example, the effect of a time-varyingC min on theC max/C min distribution of an extended Galactic halo model is shown here. To fit the BATSEC max/C min distribution including a varyingC min requires a larger observing distance (relative to the scale-height of the halo) than for a constantC min; however, the observations can still be fit using the halo models.
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