Document Type
Article
Publication Date
Spring 3-23-1995
Publication Title
The Astrophysical Journal
Publisher
The American Astronomical Society
Abstract
The demonstration of repeated gamma-ray bursts from an individual sourch would severely constrain burst source models. Recent reports (Quashnock & Lamb 1993; Wang & Lingenfelter 1993) of evidence for repetition in the first BATSE burst catalog have generated renewed interest in this issue. Here, we analyze the angular distribution of 585 bursts of the second BATSE catalog (Meegan et al. 1994). We search for evidence of burst recurrence using the nearest and farthest neighbor statistic and the two-point angular correlation function. We find the data to be consistent with the hypothesis that burst sources do not repeat; however, a repeater fraction of up to about 20% of the observed bursts cannot be excluded.
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Additional authors: Martin Brock