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arxiv: astro-ph/9711329 · v1 · submitted 1997-11-27 · 🌌 astro-ph

The Statistics of the BATSE Spectral Features

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The absence of a BATSE line detection in a gamma-ray burst spectrum during the mission's first six years has led to a statistical analysis of the occurrence of lines in the BATSE burst database; this statistical analysis will still be relevant if lines are detected. We review our methodology, and present new simulations of line detectability as a function of the line parameters. We also discuss the calculation of the number of ``trials'' in the BATSE database, which is necessary for our line detection criteria.

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