Skip to content

The Role of the BATSE Instrument Response in Creating the Gamma-Ray Burst E-Peak Distribution

J. J. Brainerd, G. Pendleton, R. Mallozzi, M. S. Briggs, R. D. Preece

astro-pharXiv:astro-ph/9904039

Abstract

All gamma-ray bursts are observed to have approximately the same characteristic gamma-ray energy. We show in this article that for bursts in the BATSE data set, this property as measured by the E-peak value is not an instrumental effect, but a physical property of gamma-ray bursts.

Create a lesson