Evidence for a fast decline in the progenitor population of gamma-ray bursts and the nature of their origin

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 578, Issue 1 I, 2002, Pages 304-309

  Stern, B E ^a,b,c   Atteia, J L ^d   Hurley, K ^e  

^a INSTITUTE FOR NUCLEAR RESEARCH   (Russian Federation)

^b LEBEDEV PHYSICAL INSTITUTE   (Russian Federation)

^c STOCKHOLM OBSERVATORY   (Sweden)

^d IRAP   (France)

^e UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Methods: data analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 0042831510     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/342467     Document Type: Article

References (35)

1. Andersen, M. I., et al. 2000, A&A, 364, L54
2. Atteia, J.-L., Boer, M., & Hurley, K. 1999, A&AS, 138, 421
3. Belczynski,K., Bulik,T., & Rudak,B. 2002, ApJ, 571, 394
4. Bloom,J.S., Kulkarni,S.R., & Djorgovski,S.G. 2002, AJ, 123, 1111
5. Bloom, J., et al. 1999, Nature, 401, 453
6. Bulik, T. 1999, in ASP Conf. Ser. 190, GRBs: The First Three Minutes, ed. J. Poutanen & R. Svensson (San Francisco: ASP), 219
7. Djorgovski, S. G., et al. 1999, GCN Cire. 251(http://gcn.gsfc.masa.gov/ gcn/gcn3/251.gcn3)
8. Fishman, G. J., et al. 1989, in Proc. Gamma Ray Observatory Science Workshop, ed. W. N. Johnson (Greenbelt: GSFC), 3
9. Galama, T., & Wijers, R. 2001, ApJ, 549, L209
10. Hurley, K., et al. 1992, A&AS, 92, 401
11. _. 1999a, ApJS, 120, 399
12. _. 1999b, ApJS, 122, 497
13. _. 2000a, ApJS, 533, 884
14. _. 2000b, ApJS, 534, 258
15. _. 2000c, ApJS, 128, 549
16. _. 2001, in ESO Astrophysics Symposia, Gamma-Ray Bursts in the Afterglow Era, ed. E. Costa, F. Frontera, & J. Hjorth (Berlin: Springer), 378
17. Jha, S., et al. 2001, ApJ, 554, L155
18. Laros, J., et al. 1997, ApJS, 110, 157
19. _. 1998, ApJS, 118, 391
20. Lazzati, D., et al. 2001, A&A, 378, 996
21. Lipunov, V. M., Postnov, K. A., Prokhorov, M. E., Panchenko, I. E., & Jorgensen, H. E. 1995, ApJ, 454, L363 (L95)
22. Lukash,V.N. 2000, preprint (astro-ph/0012012)
23. MacFadyen,A., & Woosley,S. 1999, ApJ, 524, 262
24. Mészáros,P. 2002, A&A Rev., in press
25. Nemiroff,R., et al. 1994, ApJ, 435, L133
26. Paczyński, B. 1998, ApJ, 494, L45
27. Piro, L., et al. 2000, Science, 290, 955
28. Porciani, C., & Madau, P. 2001, ApJ, 548, 522
29. Portegies-Zwart, S.F., & Yungelson, L. R. 1998, A&A, 332, 173 (PZY98)
30. Reeves, J. N., et al. 2002, Nature, 416, 512
31. Stern,B.E., Tikhomirova, Ya., Kompaneets,D., Svensson,R., & Poutanen,J. 2001, ApJ, 563, 80
32. Stern, B. E., Tikhomirova, Ya., Stepanov, M., Kompaneets, D., Berezhnoy, A., & Svensson, R. 2000, ApJ, 540, L21
33. Stern, B. E., Tikhomirova, Ya., & Svensson, R. 2002, ApJ, 573, 75 (STS)
34. Vreeswijk, P. M., et al. 1999, GCN Circ. 496 (http://gcn.gsfc.masa.gov/gcn/gcn3/496.gcn3)
35. Woosley, S. 1993, ApJ, 405, 273