• DOI:10.1111/j.1365-2966.2005.08687.x
Corpus ID: 118886010

Precursor activity in bright, long BATSE gamma-ray bursts

@article{Lazzati2005PrecursorAI,
  title={Precursor activity in bright, long BATSE gamma-ray bursts},
  author={D. Lazzati},
  journal={Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society},
  year={2005},
  volume={357},
  pages={722-731}
}

D. Lazzati

Published 2005

Physics

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

We study a sample of bright, long Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) gamma-ray burst (GRB) light curves in the 200 s before the detection of the GRB prompt emission. We find that in a sizable fraction of cases (∼20 per cent) there is evidence of emission above the background coming from the same direction as the GRB. This emission is characterized by a softer spectrum with respect to the main spectrum and contains a small fraction (0.1‐1 per cent) of the total event counts. The… CONTINUE READING

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