Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-01-21
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
5 pages, 2 figures, presented at the 5th Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium
Scientific paper
10.1063/1.1361503
We use ESX, a product of Information Acumen Corporation, to perform unsupervised learning on a data set containing 797 gamma-ray bursts taken from the BATSE 3B catalog. Assuming all attributes to be distributed logNormally, Mukherjee et al. (1998) analyzed these same data using a statistical cluster analysis. Utilizing the logarithmic values for T90 duration, total fluence, and hardness ratio HR321 their results showed the instances formed three classes. Class I contained long/bright/intermediate bursts, class II consisted of short/faint/hard bursts and class III was represented by intermediate/intermediate/soft bursts. When ESX was presented with these data and restricted to forming a small number of classes, the two classes found by previous standard techniques were determined. However, when ESX was allowed to form more than two classes, four classes were created. One of the four classes contained a majority of short bursts, a second class consisted of mostly intermediate bursts, and the final two classes were subsets of the Class I (long) bursts determined by Mukherjee et al. We hypothesize that systematic biases may be responsible for this variation.
Haglin David J.
Hakkila Jon
Mallozzi Robert S.
Pendleton Geoffrey N.
Roiger Richard J.
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