THE THIRD SWIFT BURST ALERT TELESCOPE GAMMA-RAY BURST CATALOG

By A. Lien, T. Sakamoto, S. Barthelmy, W. Baumgartner, J. Cannizzo, Kevin Chen, N. Collins, J. Cummings, N. Gehrels, H. Krimm and 5 more. 2015

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To date, the Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) onboard Swift has detected ∼1000 gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), of which ∼360 GRBs have redshift measurements, ranging from z = 0.03 to z = 9.38. We present the analyses of the BAT-detected GRBs for the past ∼11 years up through GRB 151027B. We report summaries of both the temporal and spectral analyses of the GRB characteristics using event data (i.e., data for each photon within approximately 250 s before and 950 s after the BAT trigger time), and discuss the instrumental sensitivity and selection effects of GRB detections. We also explore the GRB properties with redshift when possible. The result summaries and data products are available at http://swift.gsfc.nasa.gov/results/batgrbcat/index.html. In addition, we perform searches for GRB emissions before or after the event data using the BAT survey data. We estimate the false detection rate to be only one false detection in this sample. There are 15 ultra-long GRBs (∼2% of the BAT GRBs) in this search with confirmed emission beyond ∼1000 s of event data, and only two GRBs (GRB 100316D and GRB 101024A) with detections in the survey data prior to the starting of event data.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics

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• The 105-Month Swift-BAT All-sky Hard X-Ray Survey (2018, background): “When the BAT discovers a new GRB, two narrow field instruments, the X-ray Telescope (XRT; Burrows et al. 2005) and the Ultraviolet/optical Telescope (UVOT; Roming et al. 2005), observe the GRB candidate (Sakamoto et al. 2008, 2011; Lien et al. 2016).”
• The Observer's Guide to the Gamma-Ray Burst-Supernova Connection (2016, background): “42 s, whereas the BAT value in [500] is obtained in surveymode.”