Are Abell Clusters Correlated with Gamma-Ray Bursts?

Authors

Dieter H. Hartmann, Department of Physics and Astronomy, Clemson UniversityFollow
K. Hurley, University of California, Space Sciences Laboratory
C. Kouveliotou, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
G. Fishman, NASA Marshall Space Flight Center
J. Laros, Lunar and Planetary Laboratory, University of Arizon
T. Cline, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center
M. Boer, CESR

Document Type

Article

Publication Date

Winter 2-21-1997

Publication Title

The Astrophysical Journal

Publisher

The American Astronomical Society

Abstract

A recent study has presented marginal statistical evidence that gamma-ray burst sources are correlated with Abell clusters, based on analyses of bursts in the BATSE 3B catalog. Using precise localization information from the 3rd Interplanetary Network, we have reanalyzed this possible correlation. We find that most of the Abell clusters which are in the relatively large 3B error circles are not in the much smaller IPN/BATSE error regions. We believe that this argues strongly against an Abell cluster–gamma–ray burst correlation.

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