The Complete Spectral Catalog of Bright BATSE Gamma-Ray Bursts

By Y. Kaneko, R. Preece, M. Briggs, W. Paciesas, C. Meegan, D. Band. 2006

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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; ~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.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Instrumentation, Statistical and Nonlinear Physics

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• THE LARGE AREA TELESCOPE ON THE FERMI GAMMA-RAY SPACE TELESCOPE MISSION (2009, methodology): “Detailed simulations, based on extrapolations from the BATSE-detected GRBs, and adopting the distribution of Band parameters of the catalog of bright BATSE bursts (Kaneko et al. 2006), suggest that the LAT may detect one burst per month, depending on the GRB model for high energy emission.”
• The First Swift BAT Gamma-Ray Burst Catalog (2007, methodology): “The peak value of the PL photon index of 1.6 is close to themean value of the low-energy photon index of 1.0 and the high-energy photon index of 2.5 of the typical GRB spectrum (Kaneko et al. 2006; Sakamoto et al. 2005).”
• A theory of photospheric emission from relativistic, collimated outflows (2012, background): “Goodman (1986) considered a highly relativistic outflow in the context of cosmological GRBs.”
• THE COSMIC RATE, LUMINOSITY FUNCTION, AND INTRINSIC CORRELATIONS OF LONG GAMMA-RAY BURSTS (2009, methodology): “To reproduce the relative fraction of bright GRBs in Kaneko et al. (2006), we adopt a factor 8 sensitivity decrease relative to the full BATSE sample.”
• Short-Duration Gamma-Ray Bursts (2013, background): “However, these differences are less evident when the sample is restricted to short GRBs with the highest peak fluxes (Paciesas et al. 2003, Kaneko et al. 2006), or when considering only the first∼ 2 s of long GRB light curves (Ghirlanda, Ghisellini & Celotti 2004).”
• THE FERMI GAMMA-RAY BURST MONITOR (2009, background): “The bulk of GRB detections before Fermi have been in the ~20 to 1000 keV band and much is known about the spectral properties of GRBs in this band (Kaneko et al. 2006).”
• Detection of a Spectral Break in the Extra Hard Component of GRB 090926A (2011, methodology): “The joint spectral fitting of GBM and LAT data was performed using rmfit version 3.2 (Kaneko et al. 2006; Abdo et al. 2009d), which estimates the goodness-of-fit in terms of the Castor Statistic (C-STAT) to handle correctly the small number of events at the highest energies.”
• OBSERVATIONS OF THE NAKED-EYE GRB 080319B: IMPLICATIONS OF NATURE'S BRIGHTEST EXPLOSION (2008, background): “This corresponds to a fluence of 5.31 × 10−4 erg cm−2 in the BATSE bandpass of 20 keV to 1.8 MeV, making it brighter than the highest-fluence BATSE burst (4.08 × 10−4 erg cm−2; Kaneko et al. 2006).”
• QUASI-BLACKBODY COMPONENT AND RADIATIVE EFFICIENCY OF THE PROMPT EMISSION OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS (2008, methodology): “We select our sample from bursts in the Kaneko spectral catalog (Kaneko et al. 2006).”
• Reconciling observed gamma-ray burst prompt spectra with synchrotron radiation? (2010, methodology): “Using the data by Kaneko et al. (2006), we find that: –”
• Testing the Standard Fireball Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts Using Late X-Ray Afterglows Measured by Swift (2006, background): “The mean Epeak for BATSE (pre-Swift) bursts was 235 keV (170-340 keV 90% range) (Kaneko et al. 2006) which is significantly larger than for Swift bursts, mean 138 keV, median 116 keV.”
• Spectral properties of 438 GRBs detected by Fermi/GBM (2010, methodology): “Similar results are obtained by considering the time resolved spectral analysis of flux/ ence limited samples of bright BATSE bursts (Preece et al. 1998; Preece et al. 2000; Kaneko et al. 2006).”
• A COMPREHENSIVE ANALYSIS OF FERMI GAMMA-RAY BURST DATA. I. SPECTRAL COMPONENTS AND THE POSSIBLE PHYSICAL ORIGINS OF LAT/GBM GRBs (2010, background): “…Ep was also found to be generally correlated with flux (and therefore luminosity, Liang et al. 2004), although in individual pulses, both a decreasing Ep pattern and a Ep-tracking-flux pattern have been identified (Ford et al. 1995; Liang & Kargatis 1996; Kaneko et al. 2006; Lu et al. 2010).”
• GRB110721A: AN EXTREME PEAK ENERGY AND SIGNATURES OF THE PHOTOSPHERE (2012, background): “The cleanest signature of the emission in GRBs is found in smooth FRED emission pulses (Ford et al. 1995).”
• Short versus long gamma-ray bursts: spectra, energetics, and luminosities (2009, methodology): “…with spectral information (e.g. Preecet al. 2000, and Kaneko et al. 2006) were selected with different criteria: in particular, an analysis by Kaneko et al. (2006)examined bursts selected according to either peak flux or fluence as part of the aim of performing time–resolved spectral…”
• DETECTION OF A THERMAL SPECTRAL COMPONENT IN THE PROMPT EMISSION OF GRB 100724B (2010, background): “The Band parameters are in part fairly typical of the ensemble of GRBs, with α = −0.67± 0.01 and Epeak = 352± 6 keV (Preece et al. 2000; Kaneko et al. 2006).”
• THE FERMI GBM GAMMA-RAY BURST SPECTRAL CATALOG: FOUR YEARS OF DATA (2014, methodology): “As discussed in Kaneko et al. (2006), although the Sbpl is parameterized with Eb, the Epeak can be derived from the functional form.”
• THE SECOND SWIFT BURST ALERT TELESCOPE GAMMA-RAY BURST CATALOG (2011, methodology): “This BAT photon index based on a PL fit is systematically steeper than the typical low-energy photon index α (∼ −1) and also shallower than the high-energy photon index β (∼ −2.5) based on a Band function fit (e.g., Kaneko et al. 2006).”