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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 374, Issue 1, Pages L20-L23Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1111/j.1745-3933.2006.00256.x
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cosmology : theory; gamma-rays : bursts; gamma-rays : observations
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In this Letter we show that there is a redshift degeneracy in the E-iso-E-peak relation of gammaray bursts (GRBs). If a GRB has a redshift solved from the E-iso-E-peak relation that lies in the range of 0.9 < z < 20, a GRB that has the same observed fluence and peak spectral energy but is at a different redshift in that range also satisfies the E-iso-E-peak relation within a 1 sigma error, implying an extremely large error in the calculated redshift. Even if the data scatter in the E-iso-E-peak relation is reduced by a factor of 2, the error in the predicted redshift is still large enough to prevent one from constraining the redshift meaningfully. Hence, the E-iso-E-peak relation is not useful for determining the GRB distance.
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