Luminosity Function of Gamma-Ray Bursts Derived Without Benefit of Redshifts

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2001-01-10

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0101163v1

ApJ 552, 36, 2001

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

18 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/320450

We show that the Euclidean value of for gamma-ray bursts (GRB) selected on a timescale of 1024 ms is correlated with spectral hardness. The value of ranges from 0.42 for soft bursts to 0.26 for the hardest bursts. Given that the Euclidean value of for cosmological objects in a well defined sample is a distance indicator, the hard bursts must reside at larger redshifts and therefore be more luminous than the soft bursts. The resulting luminosity-hardness correlation cannot be shown explicitly due to the small number of observed GRB redshifts at the present time. Based on the -hardness correlation, we derive the luminosity function of GRBs without using any redshifts, but we have to make an assumption how the comoving GRB rate varies with redshift. We present luminosity functions for three models of the GRB rate as a function of redshift, based on star formation rates. The peak luminosity functions are approximately broken power laws with an isotropic-equivalent break luminosity of around 10^51.5 erg s^-1 in the 50-300 keV range and total local rate densities of 0.5 Gpc^-3 y^-1. Predicted GRB counts as a function of flux and redshift are presented. Based on the GRB luminosity function, we carry out a simulation to produce the luminosity-hardness correlation, which shows that the hardest GRBs are about 20 times more luminous than the softest ones.

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