• DOI:10.1051/0004-6361:20054498
Corpus ID: 11790226

The BATSE-Swift luminosity and redshift distributions of short-duration GRBs

@article{Guetta2006TheBL,
  title={The BATSE-Swift luminosity and redshift distributions of short-duration GRBs},
  author={D. Guetta and T. Piran},
  journal={Astronomy and Astrophysics},
  year={2006},
  volume={453},
  pages={823-828}
}

D. Guetta, T. Piran

Published 2006

Physics

Astronomy and Astrophysics

We compare the luminosity function and rate inferred from the BATSE peak flux distribution of short hard bursts (SHBs) with the redshift and luminosity distributions of SHBs observed by Swift /HETE II. While the Swift /HETE II SHB sample is incompatible with the SHB population that follows the star formation rate, it is compatible with an SHB rate that reflects a distribution of delay times after the SFR. This would be the case if SHBs were associated with binary neutron star mergers. The… CONTINUE READING

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