Gamma-ray burst taxonomy: looking for the third class on the spectral peak energy-duration plane in the rest frame
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| author | Tsvetkova, Anastasia Amati, Lorenzo Bulla, Mattia Burderi, Luciano Frederiks, Dmitry Frontera, Filippo Guidorzi, Cristiano Riggio, Alessandro di Salvo, Tiziana Sanna, Andrea Sviridov, Fyodor |
| author_facet | Tsvetkova, Anastasia Amati, Lorenzo Bulla, Mattia Burderi, Luciano Frederiks, Dmitry Frontera, Filippo Guidorzi, Cristiano Riggio, Alessandro di Salvo, Tiziana Sanna, Andrea Sviridov, Fyodor |
| contents | Two classes of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), corresponding to the short/hard and the long/soft events, with a putative intermediate class, are typically considered in the observer frame. However, when considering GRB characteristics in the cosmological rest frame, the boundary between the classes becomes blurred. The goal of this research is to check for the evidences of a third "intermediate" class of GRBs and investigate how the transformation from the observer to the rest frame affects the hardness-duration-based classification. We applied fits with skewed and non-skewed (symmetric) Gaussian and Student distributions to the sample of 409 GRBs with reliably measured redshifts to cluster the bursts on the hardness (Ep) - duration (T90) plane. We found that, based on AIC/BIC criteria, the statistically preferred number of clusters on the GRB rest-frame hardnesses-duration plane does not exceed two. We also assess the robustness of the clustering technique. We did not find any solid evidence of an intermediate GRB class on the rest-frame hardness-duration plane. |
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| spellingShingle | Gamma-ray burst taxonomy: looking for the third class on the spectral peak energy-duration plane in the rest frame Tsvetkova, Anastasia Amati, Lorenzo Bulla, Mattia Burderi, Luciano Frederiks, Dmitry Frontera, Filippo Guidorzi, Cristiano Riggio, Alessandro di Salvo, Tiziana Sanna, Andrea Sviridov, Fyodor High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena Two classes of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), corresponding to the short/hard and the long/soft events, with a putative intermediate class, are typically considered in the observer frame. However, when considering GRB characteristics in the cosmological rest frame, the boundary between the classes becomes blurred. The goal of this research is to check for the evidences of a third "intermediate" class of GRBs and investigate how the transformation from the observer to the rest frame affects the hardness-duration-based classification. We applied fits with skewed and non-skewed (symmetric) Gaussian and Student distributions to the sample of 409 GRBs with reliably measured redshifts to cluster the bursts on the hardness (Ep) - duration (T90) plane. We found that, based on AIC/BIC criteria, the statistically preferred number of clusters on the GRB rest-frame hardnesses-duration plane does not exceed two. We also assess the robustness of the clustering technique. We did not find any solid evidence of an intermediate GRB class on the rest-frame hardness-duration plane. |
| title | Gamma-ray burst taxonomy: looking for the third class on the spectral peak energy-duration plane in the rest frame |
| topic | High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena |
| url | https://arxiv.org/abs/2504.20263 |