The intrinsic luminosity of γ-ray bursts and their host galaxies

Details The intrinsic luminosity of γ-ray bursts and their host galaxies The intrinsic luminosity of γ-ray bursts and their host galaxies

Nov 1993

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1993natur.366...40f&link_type=abstract

Nature, Volume 366, Issue 6450, pp. 40-42 (1993).

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THE Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory has shown that, although γ-ray bursts are distributed isotropically on the sky, there is an apparent dearth of weak events compared to those expected from a homogeneous distribution of sources1,2. This suggests that the bursts originate either in an extended galactic halo3 (that is, locally) or at cosmological distances4,5. The intensity distribution of the bursts can be used to constrain their source properties and spatial distribution, and here we address this question by considering the BATSE data with those from the Pioneer Venus Orbiter, correcting for the different reponse of the two instruments. We show that the composite intensity distribution can after all be fitted by a simple, homogeneous model of γ-ray burst sources with identical intrinsic luminosities where the faintest BATSE events are at a redshift of z~0.80+/-0.05. We obtain an upper limit of about -18 on the absolute magnitude of the host galaxies by assigning model-derived distances to the brightest extragalactic objects found15 within the error boxes of eight well localized γ-ray bursts. All but the faintest active galaxies are excluded as the source of the bursts. The bursts may instead be associated with normal galaxies, but only if the host-galaxy magnitudes are close to our upper limit.

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