4 papers
A Statistical Treatment of the Gamma-Ray Burst "No Host Galaxy" Problem: II. Energies of Standard Candle Bursts
D. L. Band, D. H. Hartmann, B. E. Schaefer
With the discovery that the afterglows after some bursts are coincident with faint galaxies, the search for host galaxies is no longer a test of whether bursts are cosmological, bu…
BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Line Search: III. Line Detectability
D. L. Band, L. A. Ford, J. L. Matteson +7
We evaluate the ability of the BATSE spectroscopy detectors to detect the absorption lines observed by Ginga in gamma ray burst spectra. We find that BATSE can detect the 20.6 keV…
BATSE Observations of Gamma-Ray Burst Spectra. II. Peak Energy Evolution in Bright, Long Bursts -
L. A. Ford, D. L. Band, J. L. Matteson +13
We investigate spectral evolution in 37 bright, long gamma-ray bursts observed with the BATSE Spectroscopy Detectors. High resolution spectra are characterized by the energy of the…
BATSE Gamma-Ray Burst Line Search: II. Bayesian Consistency Methodology
D. L. Band, L. A. Ford, J. L. Matteson +7
We describe a Bayesian methodology to evaluate the consistency between the reported Ginga and BATSE detections of absorption features in gamma ray burst spectra. Currently no featu…