Are Abell Clusters Correlated with Gamma-Ray Bursts?

K. Hurley (University of California , Space Sciences Laboratory , Berkeley , CA) , D. Hartmann (Clemson University , Dept. of Physics , Astronomy , Clemson SC)

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C. Kouveliotou G. Fishman (NASA Marshall Space Flight Center Huntsville AL) J. Laros (Lunar Planetary Laboratory University of Arizona Tucson AZ) T. Cline (NASA Goddard Space Flight Center Greenbelt MD) M. Boer (CESR Toulouse France)

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A recent study has presented marginal statistical evidence that gamma-ray burst sources are correlated with Abell clusters, based on analyses of bursts in the BATSE 3B catalog. Using precise localization information from the 3rd Interplanetary Network, we have reanalyzed this possible correlation. We find that most of the Abell clusters which are in the relatively large 3B error circles are not in the much smaller IPN/BATSE error regions. We believe that this argues strongly against an Abell cluster-gamma-ray burst correlation.

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Are Abell Clusters Correlated with Gamma-Ray Bursts?

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