The Complete BATSE Spectral Catalog of Bright Gamma-Ray Bursts

Charles A. Meegan; David L. Band; Michael S. Briggs; Robert D. Preece; William S. Paciesas; Yuki Kaneko

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The Complete BATSE Spectral Catalog of Bright Gamma-Ray Bursts

Yuki Kaneko, Robert D. Preece, Michael S. Briggs, William S. Paciesas, Charles A. Meegan, David L. Band

Astrophysics · Submitted 17 May 2006

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CitationCharles A. Meegan, David L. Band, Michael S. Briggs, Robert D. Preece, William S. Paciesas, Yuki Kaneko. "The Complete BATSE Spectral Catalog of Bright Gamma-Ray Bursts." arXiv:astro-ph/0605427 (2006). https://pith.science/paper/VERVNYBC

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We present a systematic spectral analysis of 350 bright Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) observed with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE; $\sim$ 30 keV -- 2 MeV) with high temporal and spectral resolution. Our sample was selected from the complete set of 2704 BATSE GRBs based on their energy fluence or peak photon flux values to assure good statistics, and included 17 short GRBs. To obtain well-constrained spectral parameters, several photon models were used to fit each spectrum. We compared spectral parameters resulting from the fits using different models, and the spectral parameters that best represent each spectrum were statistically determined, taking into account the parameterization differences among the models. A thorough analysis was performed on 350 time-integrated and 8459 time-resolved burst spectra, and the effects of integration times in determining the spectral parameters were explored. Using the results, we studied correlations among spectral parameters and their evolution pattern within each burst. The resulting spectral catalog is the most comprehensive study of spectral properties of GRB prompt emission to date, and is available electronically from the High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC). The catalog provides reliable constraints on particle acceleration and emission mechanisms in GRBs.

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We present a systematic spectral analysis of 350 bright Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) observed with the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE; $\sim$ 30 keV -- 2 MeV) with high temporal and spectral resolution. Our sample was selected from the complete set of 2704 BATSE GRBs based on their energy fluence or peak photon flux values to assure good statistics, and included 17 short GRBs. To obtain well-constrained spectral parameters, several photon models were used to fit each spectrum. We compared spectral parameters resulting from the fits using different models, and the spectral parameters that best represent each spectrum were statistically determined, taking into account the parameterization differences among the models. A thorough analysis was performed on 350 time-integrated and 8459 time-resolved burst spectra, and the effects of integration times in determining the spectral parameters were explored. Using the results, we studied correlations among spectral parameters and their evolution pattern within each burst. The resulting spectral catalog is the most comprehensive study of spectral properties of GRB prompt emission to date, and is available electronically from the High-Energy Astrophysics Science Archive Research Center (HEASARC). The catalog provides reliable constraints on particle acceleration and emission mechanisms in GRBs.

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The resulting catalog is the most comprehensive study of spectral properties of GRB prompt emission to date, and provides constraints with exceptional statistics on particle acceleration and emission mechanisms in GRBs.

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The flux of a GRB at Earth can be described by the power law (See 2006 BATSE catalog [ref] ) [equation] where $K$ is a spectrum normalization constant, $E_0$ is fixed to $1$GeV and the spectral index $α$ takes values between $2$ and $3$.

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BATSE detectors were reported [ref] to be sensitive to fluences of $∼10^-8$ in the rage of energies from $25$KeV to $2$MeV among $2704$ events identified as GRBs.

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Instruments in satellites and ground based experiments around the planet have been designed in order to study this impressive phenomena (see [ref] and references therein).

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