Ryo Tsutsui, Daisuke Yonetoku Takashi Nakamura, Keitaro Takahashi, Yoshiyuki Morihara
We analyzed correlations among the rest frame spectral peak energy $E_{\rm p}$, the observed frame 64ms peak isotropic luminosity $L_{\rm p}$ and the isotropic energy $E_{\rm iso}$ for 13 Short Gamma Ray Burst (SGRB) candidates having the measured redshift $z$, $T_{\rm 90}^{\rm obs}/(1+z)<2$ sec and well determined spectral parameters. A SGRB candidate is regarded as a misguided SGRB if it is located in the 3-$\sigma$ region from the best fit function of the $E_{\rm p}$--$E_{\rm iso}$ correlation for Long GRBs(LGRB) while the others are regarded as secure SGRBs possibly from compact star mergers. Using 8 secure SGRBs out of 13 SGRB candidates, we tested whether $E_{\rm p}$--$E_{\rm iso}$ and $E_{\rm p}$--$L_{\rm p}$ correlations exist for SGRBs. We found that $E_{\rm p}$--$E_{\rm iso}$ correlation for SGRBs($E_{\rm iso} =10^{51.42 \pm 0.15}{\rm erg s^{-1}} ({E_{\rm p}}/{\rm 774.5 keV})^{1.58 \pm 0.28}$) seems to exist with the correlation coefficeint $r=0.91$ and chance probability $p=1.5\times10^{-3}$. We found also that the $E_{\rm p}$--$L_{\rm p}$ correlation for SGRBs($L_{\rm p} = 10^{52.29 \pm 0.066}{\rm erg s^{-1}} ({E_{\rm p}}/{\rm 774.5 keV})^{1.59 \pm 0.11}$) is tighter than $E_{\rm p}$--$E_{\rm iso}$ correlation since $r=0.98$ and $p=1.5\times10^{-5}$. Both correlations for SGRBs are dimmer than those of LGRBs for the same $E_{\rm p}$ by factors $\sim$100($E_{\rm p}$--$E_{\rm iso}$) and $\sim$10($E_{\rm p}$--$L_{\rm p}$). Applying the tighter $E_{\rm p}$--$L_{\rm p}$ correlation for SGRBs to 71 bright BATSE SGRBs, we found that pseudo redshift $z$ ranges from 0.097 to 2.258 with the mean $$ of 1.05. The redshifts of SGRBs apparently cluster at lower redshift than those of LGRBs ($\sim 2.2 $), which supports the merger scenario of SGRB.
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http://arxiv.org/abs/1208.0429
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