Burst Statistics Using the Lag-Luminosity Relationship
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Using the lag-luminosity relation and various BATSE catalogs we create a large catalog of burst redshifts, peak luminosities and emitted energies. These catalogs permit us to evaluate the lag-luminosity relation, and to study the burst energy distribution. We find that this distribution can be described as a power law with an index of α = 1.76±0.05 (95% confidence), close to the α = 2 predicted by the original quasi-universal jet model.
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تاریخ انتشار 2003