Published October 15, 2010 | Version v1
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BAT2 GRB Catalog - Prompt Emission Properties of Swift GRBs

Creators

  • 1. CRESST and NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 (United States)
  • 2. NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, Greenbelt, MD 20771 (United States)
  • 3. Center for Space Science and Technology, University of Maryand, Baltimore County, Baltimore, MD 21250 (United States)
  • 4. Los Alamos National Laboratory, P.O. Box 1663, Los Alamos, NM, 87545 (United States)
  • 5. Universities Space Research Association, 10211 Wincopin Circle, Suite 500, Columbia, MD 21044-3432 (United States)
  • 6. Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, MD 20742 (United States)
  • 7. Center for Cosmology and Astro-Particle Physics, Department of Physics, Ohio State University, 191 West Woodruff Avenue, Columbus, OH 43210 (United States)
  • 8. Center for Nuclear Studies, Department of Physics, George Washington University, Washington, D.C. 20052 (United States)

Description

We present the second Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) catalog of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), which contains 476 bursts detected by the BAT between 2004 December 19 and 2009 December 21. This catalog presents burst trigger time, location, 90% error radius, duration, fluence, peak flux, time-averaged spectral parameters and time-resolved spectral parameters measured by the BAT. The BAT T90 duration peaks at 70 s. We confirm that the spectra of the BAT short-duration GRBs are generally harder than those of the long-duration GRBs. The observed durations of the BAT high redshift GRBs are not systematically longer than those of the moderate redshift GRBs. Furthermore, the observed spectra of the BAT high redshift GRBs are similar to or harder than the moderate redshift GRBs.

Additional details

Identifiers

DOI
10.1063/1.3509266;

Publishing Information

Journal Title
AIP Conference Proceedings
Journal Volume
1279
Journal Issue
1
Journal Page Range
p. 20-23
ISSN
0094-243X
CODEN
APCPCS

Conference

Title
Conference on deciphering the ancient universe with gamma-ray bursts
Dates
19-23 Apr 2010
Place
Kyoto (Japan)

INIS

Country of Publication
United States
Country of Input or Organization
International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
INIS RN
42035186
Subject category
S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
Resource subtype / Literary indicator
Conference
Descriptors DEI
ASTROPHYSICS; CATALOGS; COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS; COSMIC PHOTONS; GAMMA ASTRONOMY; GAMMA DETECTION; GAMMA SPECTRA; PHOTON EMISSION; RED SHIFT; TELESCOPE COUNTERS; TIME RESOLUTION
Descriptors DEC
ASTRONOMY; BOSONS; COSMIC RADIATION; DETECTION; DOCUMENT TYPES; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; EMISSION; IONIZING RADIATIONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PHOTONS; PHYSICS; PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION; RADIATION DETECTION; RADIATIONS; RESOLUTION; SPECTRA; TIMING PROPERTIES

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