Are there cosmological evolution of Gamma-Ray Bursts?

The variability of gamma-ray burst (GRB) is thought to be correlated with its absolute peak luminosity, and this relation had been used to derive an estimate of the redshifts of GRBs. Recently Amati et al. present the results of spectral and energetic properties of several GRBs with know redshifts. Here we analyse the properties of two group GRBs, one group with known redshift from afterglow observation, and another group with redshift derived from the luminosity variability relation. We study the redshift dependence of various GRBs features in their cosmological rest frames, including the burst duration, the isotropic luminosity and radiated energy, and the peak energyEp of νFν spectra. We find that the properties of these two group GRBs are very similar, which strongly implies that the redshift derived from the luminosity variability relation may be reliable. If this is true, then we see that the burst properties, such as their intrinsic duration, luminosity, radiated energy and peak energy Ep, are all correlated with the redshift, which means that the GRBs features are redshift dependent, i.e. there are cosmological evolution of gamma-ray bursts, and this can provide an interesting clue to the nature of GRBs. Furthermore we find that the Ep L relation strongly supports the idea that gamma-ray burst emission comes from the internal shock.