Are Abell Clusters Correlated with Gamma-Ray Bursts?
- 20 April 1997
- journal article
- Published by American Astronomical Society in The Astrophysical Journal
- Vol. 479 (2) , L113-L115
- https://doi.org/10.1086/310596
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.Comment: accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal LetterKeywords
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