Detailed Classification of Swift 's Gamma-ray Bursts
Abstract
Earlier classification analyses found three types of gamma-ray bursts (short, long, and intermediate in duration) in the BATSE sample. Recent works have shown that these three groups are also present in the RHESSI and BeppoSAX databases. The duration distribution analysis of the bursts observed by the Swift satellite also favors the three-component model. In this paper, we extend the analysis of the Swift data with spectral information. We show, using the spectral hardness and duration simultaneously, that the maximum likelihood method favors the three-component against the two-component model. The likelihood also shows that a fourth component is not needed.
- Publication:
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The Astrophysical Journal
- Pub Date:
- April 2010
- DOI:
- 10.1088/0004-637X/713/1/552
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1003.0632
- Bibcode:
- 2010ApJ...713..552H
- Keywords:
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- gamma rays: general;
- methods: statistical;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena;
- Astrophysics - Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics
- E-Print:
- Accepted for publication in The Astrophysical Journal