Reclassification of gamma-ray bursts

Details Reclassification of gamma-ray bursts Reclassification of gamma-ray bursts

2001-08-16

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0108272v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 328 (2001) 283

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, 11 figures, to appear in MNRAS

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2001.04888.x

We have applied two different automatic classifier algorithms to the BATSE Current GRB Catalog data and we obtain three different classes of GRBs. Our results confirm the existence of a third, intermediate class of GRBs, with mean duration \sim 25-50 s, as deduced from a cluster analysis and from a neural network algorithm. Our analyses imply longer durations than those found by Mukherjee et al. (1998) and Horvath (1998), whose intermediate class had durations \sim 2-10 s. From the neural network analysis no difference in hardness between the two longest classes is found, and from both methods we find that the intermediate-duration class constitutes the most homogeneous sample of GRBs in its space distribution while the longest-duration class constitutes the most inhomogeneous one with \sim 0.1, being thus the deepest population of GRBs with z_max \sim 10. The trend previously found in long bursts, of spatial inhomogeneity increasing with hardness, only holds for this new longest-duration class.

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