Analysis methods and results of a search for weak gamma-ray bursts in the batse data

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 603, Issue 2 I, 2004, Pages 624-643

  Mitrofanov, I G ^a   Anfimov, D S ^a   Briggs, M S ^b,c   Fishman, G J ^c,d   Kippen, R M ^e   Kozyrev, A S ^a   Litvak, M L ^a   Meegan, C A ^c,d   Paciesas, W S ^b,c   Preece, R D ^b,c   Sanin, A B ^a  

^a Russian Academy of Sciences ^*  (Russian Federation)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ALABAMA IN HUNTSVILLE   (United States)

^c Natl Space Sci/Technology Center   (United States)

^d NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^e LOS ALAMOS NATIONAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Methods: statistical

Indexed keywords

EID: 2142756666     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/380752     Document Type: Article

References (22)

1. Briggs, M. S. 1993, ApJ, 407, 126
2. Briggs, M. S., Pendleton, G. N., Kippen, R. M., Brainerd, J. J., Hurley, K., Connaughton, V., & Meegan, C. A. 1999, ApJS, 122, 503
3. Fishman, G. J., et al. 1989, in Proc. GRO Science Workshop, ed. W. N. Johnson (Greenbelt: GSFC), 2-39
4. Kommers, J. M., Lewin, W. H. G., Kouveliotou, C., van Paradijs, J., Pendleton, G. N., Meegan, C. A., & Fishman, G. J. 1997, ApJ, 491, 704
5. _. 2001, ApJS, 134, 385
6. Koshut, T. M., Paciesas, W. S., Kouveliotou, C., van Paradijs, J., Pendleton, G. N., Fishman, G. J., & Meegan, C. A. 1996, ApJ, 463, 570
7. Kouveliotou, C., Meegan, C. A., Fishman, G. J., Bhat, N. P., Briggs, M. S., Koshut, T. M., Paciesas, W. S., & Pendleton, G. N. 1993, ApJ, 413, L101
8. Krumholz, M., Thorsett, S. E., & Harrison, F. A. 1998, ApJ, 506, L81
9. Mallozzi, R. S., Paciesas, W. S., Pendleton, G. N., Briggs, M. S., Preece, R. D., Meegan, C. A., & Fishman, G. J. 1995, ApJ, 454, 597
10. McIlwain, C. E. 1966, Space Sci. Rev., 5, 585
11. Mitrofanov, I. G., Chernenko, A. M., Pozanenko, A. S., Briggs, M. S., Paciesas, W. S., Fishman, G. J., Meegan, C. A., & Sagdeev, R. Z. 1996, ApJ, 459, 570
12. Mitrofanov, I. G., Litvak, M. L., Briggs, M. S., Paciesas, W. S., Pendleton, G. N., Preece, R. D., & Meegan, C. A. 1999, ApJ, 523, 610
13. Mitrofanov, I. G., et al. 1992, in Gamma-Ray Bursts: Observations, Analyses and Theories, ed. C. Ho, R. I. Epstein, & E. E. Fenimore (Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press), 209
14. Nemiroff, R. J., Norris, J. P., Bonnell, J. T., Wickramasinghe, W. A. D. T., Kouveliotou, C., Paciesas, W. S., Fishman, G. J., & Meegan, C. A. 1994, ApJ, 435, L133
15. Paciesas, W. S., et al. 1999, ApJS, 122, 465
16. Pendleton, G. N., et al. 1999, ApJ, 512, 362
17. Porciani, C., & Madau, P. 2001, ApJ, 548, 522
18. Press, W., et al. 1992, Numerical Recipes in C: The Art of Scientific Computing (2d ed.; Cambridge: Cambridge Univ. Press)
19. Rubin, B. C., et al. 1993, in AIP Conf Proc. 280, Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory, ed. M. Friedlander, N. Gehrels, & D. Macomb (New York: AIP), 719
20. Schmidt, M. 1999, A&AS, 138, 409
21. Stern, B. E., Tikhomirova, Ya., Kompaneets, D., Svensson, R., & Poutanen, J. 2001, ApJ, 563, 80
22. Stern, B. E., Tikhomirova, Ya., Stepanov, M., Kompaneets, D., Berezhnoy, A., & Svensson, R. 2000, ApJ, 540, L21