The Swift satellite and redshifts of long gamma-ray bursts

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dc.creatorBagoly, Z.
dc.creatorMészáros, A.
dc.creatorBalázs, L. G.
dc.creatorHorváth, I.
dc.creatorKlose, S.
dc.creatorLarsson, S.
dc.creatorMészáros, P.
dc.creatorRyde, F.
dc.creatorTusnády, G.
dc.date2006-04-14
dc.date.accessioned2026-07-07T07:46:04Z
dc.date.available2026-07-07T07:46:04Z
dc.descriptionUntil 6 October 2005 sixteen redshifts have been measured of long gamma-ray bursts discovered by the Swift satellite. Further 45 redshifts have been measured of the long gamma-ray bursts discovered by other satellites. Here we perform five statistical tests comparing the redshift distributions of these two samples assuming - as the null hypothesis - identical distribution for the two samples. Three tests (Student's $t$-test, Mann-Whitney test, Kolmogorov-Smirnov test) reject the null hypothesis on the significance levels between 97.19 and 98.55%. Two different comparisons of the medians show extreme $(99.78-99.99994)$% significance levels of rejection. This means that the redshifts of the Swift sample and the redshifts of the non-Swift sample are distributed differently - in the Swift sample the redshifts are on average larger. This statistical result suggests that the long GRBs should on average be at the higher redshifts of the Swift sample.
dc.description4 pages, accepted as an A&A Research Note
dc.identifierhttps://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604326
dc.identifierhttp://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0604326
dc.identifierAstron.Astrophys. 453 (2006) 797-800
dc.identifierdoi:10.1051/0004-6361:20054322
dc.identifier.urihttp://salesiana.dossiersoluciones.com/handle/123456789/123709
dc.subjectAstrophysics
dc.titleThe Swift satellite and redshifts of long gamma-ray bursts
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