The continuum spectral characteristics of gamma ray bursts observed by BATSE

Details The continuum spectral characteristics of gamma ray bursts observed by BATSE The continuum spectral characteristics of gamma ray bursts observed by BATSE

Feb 1994

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In Alabama Univ., BATSE Data Analysis 1 p (SEE N94-26685 07-93)

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astronomy

Astronomical Catalogs, Discriminators, Gamma Ray Bursts, Spectrum Analysis, Atmospheric Scattering, Hardness, Isotropy, Photons, Spatial Distribution

Scientific paper

Distributions of the continuum spectral characteristics of 260 bursts in the first Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) catalog are presented. The data are derived from flux ratios calculated from the BATSE Large Area Detector (LAD) four channel discriminator data. The data are converted from counts to photons using a direct spectral inversion technique to remove the effects of atmospheric scattering and the energy dependence of the detector angular response. Although there are intriguing clusterings of bursts in the spectral hardness ratio distributions, no evidence for the presence of distinct burst classes based on spectral hardness ratios alone is found. All subsets of bursts selected for their spectral characteristics in this analysis exhibit spatial distributions consistent with isotropy. The spectral diversity of the burst population appears to be caused largely by the highly variable nature of the burst production mechanisms themselves.

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