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The first BATSE gamma-ray burst catalog
Abstract
The Burst and Transient Source Experiment on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory detected 260 cosmic gamma-ray bursts during the period 19 Apr 1991 to 5 Mar 1992. This paper presents the occurrence times, locations, peak count rates, peak fluxes, fluences, durations, and plots of time histories for these bursts. The angular distribution is consistent with isotropy. The intensity distribution shows a deficit in the number of weak bursts, which is not consistent with a homogeneous distribution of burst sources in Euclidean space. The duration distribution shows evidence for a separate class of bursts with durations less than about 2 seconds.
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Fishman, Gerald J., Meegan, Charles A., Wilson, Robert B., Brock, Martin N., Horack, John M., Kouveliotou, Chryssa, Howard, Sethanne, Paciesas, William S., Briggs, Michael S., Pendleton, Geoffrey N.. 1994-05-01. The first BATSE gamma-ray burst catalog. https://ntrs.nasa.gov/citations/19950030794
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