On the intensity distribution of cosmic gamma-ray bursts.
Abstract
Gamma-ray burst detections by the Cosmos 461, Meteor, and Vela satellites are analyzed. It is shown that unavoidable observational selection can cause experimentally obtained intensity distributions to deviate very strongly from the true distributions. The combined satellite data are tentatively found to be compatible with an inverse dependence on source intensity, which would correspond to a homogeneous two-dimensional (Galactic) distribution of the gamma-ray burst sources.
- Publication:
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Pisma v Astronomicheskii Zhurnal
- Pub Date:
- August 1978
- Bibcode:
- 1978PAZh....4..349M
- Keywords:
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- Bursts;
- Galactic Radiation;
- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Spaceborne Astronomy;
- Cosmos Satellites;
- Satellite Observation;
- Vela Satellites;
- Space Radiation;
- Gamma-Ray Bursts