SHORT VERSUS LONG AND COLLAPSARS VERSUS NON-COLLAPSARS: A QUANTITATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

@article{Bromberg2012SHORTVL,
title={SHORT VERSUS LONG AND COLLAPSARS VERSUS NON-COLLAPSARS: A QUANTITATIVE CLASSIFICATION OF GAMMA-RAY BURSTS},
author={Omer Bromberg and Ehud Nakar and Tsvi Piran and Re’em Sari},
journal={The Astrophysical Journal},
year={2012},
volume={764},
pages={179}
}
Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are traditionally divided to long and short according to their durations (≶ 2 sec). It was generally believed that this reflects a different physical origin: Collapsars (long) and non-Collapsars (short). We have recently shown that the duration distribution of Collapsars is flat, namely independent of the duration, at short durations. Using this model for the distribution of Collapsars we determine the duration distribution of non-Collapsars and estimate the probability… Expand
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