Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-03-14
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 331 (2002) 40-44
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 8 figures, accepted for publication by MNRAS
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05158.x
We analyze a sample of bright long bursts and find that the pulses duration have a lognormal distribution while the intervals between pulses have an excess of long intervals (relative to lognormal distribution). This excess can be explained by the existence of quiescent times, long periods with no signal above the background. The lognormal distribution of the intervals (excluding the quiescent times) is similar to the distribution of the pulses width. This result suggests that the quiescent times are made by a different mechanism than the rest of the intervals. It also suggests that the intervals (excluding the quiescent times) and the pulse width are connected to the same parameters of the source. We find that there is a correlation between a pulse width and the duration of the interval preceding it. There is a weaker, but still a significant, correlation between a pulse width and the interval following it. The significance of the correlation drops substantially when the intervals considered are not adjacent to the pulse.
Nakar Ehud
Piran Tsvi
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