Temporal properties of short gamma-ray bursts

Ehud Nakar; Tsvi Piran

doi:10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05136.x

Temporal properties of short gamma-ray bursts

Ehud Nakar^*, Tsvi Piran

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Racah Institute of Physics

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We analyse a sample of bright short bursts from the BATSE 4B-catalog and find that many short bursts are highly variable (δt_min/T ≪ 1, where δt_min is the shortest pulse duration and T is the burst duration). This indicates that it is unlikely that short bursts are produced by external shocks. We also analyse the available (first 1-2 s) high-resolution Time Tagged Events (TTE) data of some of the long bursts. We find that variability on a 10-ms time-scale is common in long bursts. This result shows that some long bursts are even more variable than it was thought before (δt_min/T ≈ 10^-4-10^-3).

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	920-926
Number of pages	7
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	330
Issue number	4
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1046/j.1365-8711.2002.05136.x
State	Published - 11 Mar 2002

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Gamma-rays: bursts

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