2004/06/30 by Maarten Schmidt · 2 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/425114
published as Astrophys.J. 616 (2004) 1072-1077 · 17 pages, 6 figures, accepted for publication in ApJ. The GUSBAD catalog is available at http://www.astro.caltech.edu/~mxs/grb/GUSBAD/
arxiv created 2004/09/28 · openalex publication_date 2004/12/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2025/10/10 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/31
The GUSBAD catalog of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is based on archival BATSE DISCLA data covering the full 9.1 yr of the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory mission. The catalog contains 2204 GRBs, including 589 bursts not listed in the Current BATSE Burst Catalog. The GUSBAD (Gamma-ray bursts Uniformly Selected from BATSE Archival Data) catalog is uniform in the sense that the detection criteria are the same throughout, and the properties given in the catalog are available for every burst. The detection and derivation of the properties of the GRBs were carried out automatically. This makes the GUSBAD catalog especially suitable for statistical work and simulations, such as that used in the derivation of V / V max . We briefly touch upon a potential problem in defining a GRB duration that is physically meaningful.