Confidence intervals for the correlation between the gamma-ray burst peak energy and the associated supernova peak brightness

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 393, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 1370-1376

  Koen, Chris ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WESTERN CAPE   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Gamma rays: bursts; Methods: statistical; Supernovae: general

Indexed keywords

FINANCIAL DATA PROCESSING; GAMMA RAYS; GAUSSIAN DISTRIBUTION; LUMINANCE; MARKOV PROCESSES; SUPERNOVAE;

BIVARIATE GAUSSIAN; CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; GAMMA RAYS BURSTS; GAMMA-RAY BURSTERS; METHODS:STATISTICAL; PEAK ENERGY; POSTERIOR DISTRIBUTIONS; STRONG CORRELATION; SUPERNOVAE: GENERAL;

MONTE CARLO METHODS;

EID: 61349134159     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2008.14116.x     Document Type: Article

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