TESTING A NEW LUMINOSITY/REDSHIFT ESTIMATOR OF GRBs

DOI10.1142/S0218271808012966MaRDI QIDQ3631104zbMATH OpenOpenAlexFDO

Authors Zhibin Zhang, Guang-Zhong Xie, Chul-Sung Choi

Publication date 5 June 2009

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/0711.1411

zbMATH Keywords

cosmologygamma-ray burstsgamma-ray observations

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Relativistic cosmology (83F05) Radiative transfer in astronomy and astrophysics (85A25)

Abstract: We have tested a relative spectral lag (RSL) method suggested earlier as a luminosity/redshift (or distance) estimator, using the generalized method by Schaefer & Collazzi. We find the derivations from the luminosity/redshift-RSL (L/R-RSL) relation are comparable with the corresponding observations. Applying the luminosity-RSL relation to two different GRB samples, we find that there exist no violators from the generalized test, namely the Nakar & Piran test and Li test. We also find that about 36 per cent of Schaefer's sample are outliers for the L/R-RSL relation within 1$sigma$ confidence level, but no violators at 3$sigma$ level within the current precision of L/R-RSL relation. An analysis of several potential outliers for other luminosity relations shows they can match the L/R-RSL relation well within an acceptable uncertainty. All the coincident results seem to suggest that this relation could be a potential tool for cosmological study.

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