Is sky distribution of gamma-ray bursts random?

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Jul 2010

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=2010astbu..65..277b&link_type=abstract

Astrophysical Bulletin, Volume 65, Issue 3, pp.277-285

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Stars, Gamma-Ray Burst, General

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We investigate the full randomness of the angular distribution of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) detected by the BATSE (the Burst and Transient Source Experiment). We divided the BATSE sample into 5 subsamples ( short1, short2, intermediate, long1, long2 based on their durations and peak fluxes and studied the angular distributions separately. We used three methods, the Voronoi tesselation, minimal spanning tree and multifractal spectra to search for non-randomness in the subsamples. To investigate the eventual non-randomness in the subsamples we defined 13 test-variables (9 from the Voronoi tesselation, 3 from the minimal spanning tree and one from the multifractal spectrum). We performed Monte Carlo simulations taking into account the BATSE sky-exposure function. We tested the randomness by introducing squared Euclidean distances in the parameter space of the test-variables. We concluded that the short1, short2 groups deviate significantly (99.90%, 99.98%) from the full randomness in the distribution of the squared Euclidean distances, however, it is not the case with the long subsamples. In the intermediate group, the squared Euclidean distances also yield a significant deviation (98.51%).

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