The application of network synthesis to repeating classical gamma-ray bursts
Abstract
It has been suggested that the BATSE gamma-ray burst catalog contains several groups of bursts clustered in space or in space and time, which provide evidence that a substantial fraction of the classical gamma-ray burst sources repeat. Because many of the bursts in these groups are weak, they are not directly detected by the Ulysses GRB experiment. We apply the network synthesis method to these events to test the repeating burst hypothesis. Although we find no evidence for repeating sources, the method must be applied under more general conditions before reaching any definite conclusions about the existence of classical gamma-ray burst repeating sources.
- Publication:
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Advances in Space Research
- Pub Date:
- May 1995
- DOI:
- 10.1016/0273-1177(94)00051-2
- Bibcode:
- 1995AdSpR..15e.127H
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Catalogs;
- Gamma Ray Astronomy;
- Gamma Ray Bursts;
- Network Synthesis;
- Repetition;
- Computerized Simulation;
- Correlation Coefficients;
- Gamma Ray Observatory;
- Pearson Distributions;
- Statistical Correlation;
- Ulysses Mission;
- Astrophysics