Evidence Against an Association Between Gamma-Ray Bursts and Type I Supernovae

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1998-10-22

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9810374v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

45 pages, 2 PostScript figures. Uses AASTEX macros. Submitted to The Astrophysical Journal

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10.1051/aas:1999313

We present a rigorous method, based on Bayesian inference, for calculating the odds favoring the hypothesis that any particular class of astronomical transients produce gamma-ray bursts over the hypothesis that they do not. We then apply this method to a sample of 83 Type Ia supernovae and a sample of 20 Type Ib-Ic supernovae. We find overwhelming odds against the hypothesis that all Type Ia supernovae produce gamma-ray bursts, whether at low redshift ($10^{9}:1$) or high-redshift ($10^{12}:1$), and very large odds ($6000:1$) against the hypothesis that all Type Ib, Ib/c, and Ic supernovae produce observable gamma-ray bursts. We find large odds ($34:1$) against the hypothesis that a fraction of Type Ia supernovae produce observable gamma-ray bursts, and moderate odds ($6:1$) against the hypothesis that a fraction of Type Ib-Ic supernovae produce observable bursts. We have also re-analyzed both a corrected version of the Wang & Wheeler sample of Type Ib-Ic SNe and our larger sample of 20 Type Ib-Ic SNe, using a generalization of their frequentist method. We find no significant evidence in either case of a correlation between Type Ib-Ic SNe and GRBs, consistent with the very strong evidence against such a correlation that we find from our Bayesian analysis.

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