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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
卷 671, 期 1, 页码 656-677出版社
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1086/522492
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gamma rays : bursts; methods : statistical
We calculate durations and spectral parameters for 218 Swift bursts detected by the BAT instrument between and including gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) 041220 and 070509, including 77 events with measured redshifts. Incorporating prior knowledge into the spectral fits, we are able tomeasure the characteristic nu F-nu spectral peak energy E-pk,E- (obs) and the isotropic equivalent energy E-iso (1-10(4) keV) for all events. This complete and rather extensive catalog, analyzed with a unified methodology, allows us to address the persistence and origin of high-energy correlations suggested in pre-Swift observations. We find that the E-pk,E- obs-E-iso correlation is present in the Swift sample; however, the best-fit power-law relation is inconsistent with the best-fit pre-Swift relation at > 5 sigma significance. It has a factor greater than or similar to 2 larger intrinsic scatter, after accounting for large errors on E-pk,E- (obs). A large fraction of the Swift events are hard and subluminous relative to (and inconsistent with) the pre-Swift relation, in agreement with indications from BATSE GRBs without redshift. Moreover, we determine an experimental threshold for the BAT detector and show how the E-pk,E- (obs)-E-iso correlation arises artificially due to partial correlation with the threshold. We show that pre-Swift correlations found by Amati et al., Yonetoku et al., and Firmani et al., and independently by others are likely unrelated to the physical properties of GRBs and are likely useless for tests of cosmology. Also, an explanation for these correlations in terms of a detector threshold provides a natural and quantitative explanation for why short-duration GRBs and events at low redshift tend to be outliers to the correlations.
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