The GUSBAD Catalog of Gamma-Ray Bursts

The GUSBAD catalog of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is based on archival BATSE DISCLA data covering the full 9.1 yr of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory mission. The catalog contains 2204 GRBs, including 589 bursts not listed in the Current BATSE Burst Catalog. The GUSBAD (Gamma-ray bursts Uniformly Selected from BATSE Archival Data) catalog is uniform in the sense that the detection criteria are the same throughout, and the properties given in the catalog are available for every burst. The detection and derivation of the properties of the GRBs were carried out automatically. This makes the GUSBAD catalog especially suitable for statistical work and simulations, such as that used in the derivation of V/V_max. We briefly touch upon a potential problem in defining a GRB duration that is physically meaningful.