Testing the Randomness in the Sky-Distribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts
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TestingtheRandomnessintheSky-Distributionof
Gamma-RayBursts
R.Vavrek,1⋆L.G.Bal´azs,2A.M´esz´aros,3I.Horv´ath4andZ.Bagoly5
1ESA/ESACP.O.Box50727VillafrancadelCastillo,28080Madrid,Spain2KonkolyObservatory,P.O.Box67,H-1525Budapest,Hungary3AstronomicalInstituteoftheCharlesUniversity,VHoleˇsoviˇck´ach2,18000Prague8,CzechRepublic4DepartmentofPhysics,BolyaiMilitaryUniversity,P.O.Box15,H-1581Budapest,Hungary5LaboratoryforInformationTechnology,E¨otv¨osUniversity,P´azm´anyP´eters´et´any1/A,H-1518Budapest,Hungary
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ABSTRACTWestudiedthecompleterandomnessoftheangulardistributionofgamma-raybursts(GRBs)detectedbyBATSE.SinceGRBsseemtobeamixtureofobjectsofdifferentphysicalnaturewedividedtheBATSEsampleinto5subsamples(short1,short2,intermediate,long1,long2)basedontheirdura-tionsandpeakfluxesandstudiedtheangulardistributionsseparately.Weusedthreemethods,Voronoitesselation,minimalspanningtreeandmulti-fractalspectratosearchfornon-randomnessinthesubsamples.Toinvestigatetheeventualnon-randomnessinthesubsampleswedefined13test-variables(9fromtheVoronoitesselation,3fromtheminimalspanningtreeandonefromthemultifractalspectrum).AssumingthatthepointpatternsobtainedfromtheBATSEsubsamplesarefullyrandomwemadeMonteCarlosim-ulationstakingintoaccounttheBATSE’ssky-exposurefunction.TheMCsimulationsenabledustotestthenullhypothesisi.e.thattheangulardis-tributionsarefullyrandom.WetestedtherandomnessbybinomialtestandintroducingsquaredEuclideandistancesintheparameterspaceofthetest-variables.Weconcludedthattheshort1,short2groupsdeviatesignificantly(99.90%,99.98%)fromthefullyrandomnessinthedistributionofthesquaredEuclideandistancesbutitisnotthecaseatthelongsamples.Attheinter-mediategroupthesquaredEuclideandistancesalsogivesignificantdeviation(98.51%).2R.Vavreketal.
1INTRODUCTIONRecently,thereisnodoubtaboutthecosmologicaloriginofthegamma-raybursts(hereafter
GRBs)(Zhang&M´esz´aros2004;Foxetal.2005;M´esz´aros2006).Then,assumingalargescaleisotropyfortheUniverse,oneexpectsthesamepropertyfortheGRBsaswell.Another
property,whichisalsoexpectedtooccurthatGRBsshouldappearfullyrandomly,i.e.
ifaburstisobserveditdoesnotgiveanyinformationabouttheplaceofthenextone.
Ifbothpropertiesarefulfilled,thenthedistributioniscalledcompletelyrandom(forthe
astronomicalcontextofspatialpointprocessesseeP´asztor&T´oth(1995)).Thereareseveral
testsforcheckingthecompleterandomnessofpointpatterns,however,theseproceduresdo
notalwaysgiveinformationforbothpropertiessimultaneously.
ThereareincreasingevidencethatalltheGRBsdonotrepresentaphysicallyhomoge-
neousgroup(Kouveliotouetal.1993;Horv´ath1998;Mukherjeeetal.1998;Hakkilaetal.
2000;Horv´ath2002;Bal´azsetal.2003;Hakkilaetal.2003;Horv´athetal.2006).Hence,itis
worthinvestigatingthatthephysicallydifferentsubgroupsarealsodifferentintheirangular
distributions.Inthelastyearstheauthorsprovided(Bal´azsetal.1998,1999;M´esz´arosetal.
2000a,b)severaldifferenttestsprobingtheintrinsicisotropyintheangularsky-distribution
ofGRBscollectedinBATSECatalog(Meeganetal.2000).Shortlysummarizingthere-
sultsofthesestudiesonemayconclude:A.Thelongsubgroup(T90>10s)seemstobe
distributedisotropically;B.Theintermediatesubgroup(2s<=T90<=10s)isdistributed
anisotropicallyonthe≃(96−97)%significancelevel;C.Fortheshortsubgroup(2s>T90)
theassumptionofisotropyisrejectedonlyonthe92%significancelevel;D.Thelongand
theshortsubclasses,respectively,aredistributeddifferentlyonthe99.3%significancelevel.
(AboutthedefinitionofsubclassesseeHorv´ath(1998);T90isthedurationofaGRB,during
whichtimethe90%oftheradiatedenergyisreceived(Meeganetal.2000).)
Independentlyandbydifferenttests,Litvinetal.(2001)confirmedtheresultsA.,B.and
C.withoneessentialdifference:fortheintermediatesubclassamuchhigher-namely99.89%
-significancelevelofanisotropyisclaimed.Again,theshortsubgroupisfoundtobe”sus-
picious”,butonlythe≃(85−95)%significancelevelisreached.Thelongsubclassseemsto
bedistributedisotropically(butseeM´esz´aros&ˇStoˇcek(2003)).Magliocchettietal.(2003)
foundsignificantangularcorrelationonthe2◦−5◦scaleforGRBswithT90<2sdurations.
Tanviretal.(2005)reportedacorrelationbetweenthelocationsofpreviouslyobservedshortSky-distributionofGamma-RayBursts3
burstsandthepositionsofgalaxiesinthelocalUniverse,indicatingthatbetween10and25
percentofshortGRBsoriginateatlowredshifts(z<0.025).
Itisareasonablerequirementtocontinuethesetestsusingmoresophisticatedprocedures
inordertoseewhethertheangulardistributionofGRBsiscompletelyrandomorhassome
sortofregularity.Thisisthesubjectofthisarticle.Newtestswillbepresentedhere.Mainly
theclarificationoftheshortsubgroup’sbehaviourisexpectedfromthesetests.Inthis