J/ApJS/196/1 The IPN supplement to the BATSE 5B catalog (Hurley+, 2011)
The Interplanetary Network supplement to the Burst And Transient Source
Experiment 5B catalog of cosmic gamma-ray bursts.
Hurley K., Briggs M.S., Kippen R.M., Kouveliotou C., Fishman G., Meegan C.,
Cline T., Trombka J., McClanahan T., Boynton W., Starr R., McNutt R.,
Boer M.
<Astrophys. J. Suppl. Ser., 196, 1 (2011)>
=2011ApJS..196....1H 2011ApJS..196....1H
ADC_Keywords: Gamma rays ; Positional data
Keywords: catalogs - gamma-ray burst: general
Abstract:
We present Interplanetary Network localization information for 343
gamma-ray bursts observed by the Burst and Transient Source Experiment
(BATSE) between the end of the 4th BATSE catalog and the end of the
Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory (CGRO) mission, obtained by analyzing
the arrival times of these bursts at the Ulysses, Near Earth Asteroid
Rendezvous (NEAR), and CGRO spacecraft. For any given burst observed
by CGRO and one other spacecraft, arrival time analysis (or
"triangulation") results in an annulus of possible arrival directions
whose half-width varies between 11 arcsec and 21°, depending on
the intensity, time history, and arrival direction of the burst, as
well as the distance between the spacecraft. This annulus generally
intersects the BATSE error circle, resulting in an average reduction
of the area of a factor of 20. When all three spacecraft observe a
burst, the result is an error box whose area varies between 1 and
48000arcmin2, resulting in an average reduction of the BATSE error
circle area of a factor of 87.
Description:
In the present paper, we complete the BATSE triggered event catalog
supplements with the data on 343 bursts which occurred between the end
of the 4Br catalog (trigger 5586 on 1996 August 29; Paciesas et al.,
1999, Cat. IX/20) and the end of the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory
(CGRO) mission (corresponding to trigger 8121 on 2000 May 26).
File Summary:
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ReadMe 80 . This file
table2.dat 104 344 Interplanetary Network (IPN) annuli
table3.dat 39 405 Interplanetary Network (IPN) error boxes
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See also:
IX/20 : The Fourth BATSE Burst Revised Catalog (Paciesas+ 1999)
J/ApJS/191/179 : IPN supplement to the BeppoSAX GRB catalog (Hurley+, 2010)
J/ApJS/169/62 : GRB database of spectral lags (Hakkila+, 2007)
J/ApJS/166/298 : Spectral catalog of bright BATSE gamma-ray bursts (Kaneko+,
2006)
J/ApJS/156/217 : IPN supplement to BATSE untriggered GRBs (Hurley+, 2005)
J/ApJS/154/585 : BATSE earth occultation deep sample results (Harmon+, 2004)
J/A+A/385/377 : 319 gamma-ray bursts BATSE triggers (Quilligan+, 2002)
J/ApJ/563/80 : 3906 gamma-ray bursts BATSE triggers (Stern+, 2001)
J/ApJS/134/385 : Supplement to the BATSE gamma-ray burst catalogs (Kommers+,
2001)
J/ApJS/126/19 : BATSE gamma-ray burst spectral catalog. I. (Preece+, 2000)
J/ApJS/127/79 : BATSE occultation catalog of Gamma-Ray sources (Ling+, 2000)
J/ApJS/120/399 : ULYSSES supplement to GRB 3B catalog (Hurley+, 1999)
J/ApJS/123/79 : Third EGRET catalog (3EG) (Hartman+, 1999)
http://gammaray.msfc.nasa.gov/batse/ : BATSE home page
Byte-by-byte Description of file: table2.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 6 I6 --- Burst Date of burst (YYMMDD)
7 A1 --- m_Burst [ABC- ] Flag when multiple bursts;
added by CDS from figures
8- 10 A3 --- f_Burst [a-w, ] Localisation problems (1)
12- 19 A8 "h:m:s" Time Universal Time of the burst at Earth
21- 24 I4 --- Trig [5591,8121] BATSE trigger number
(<Trigger NNNN> in Simbad)
26- 31 F6.2 deg RAdeg BATSE J2000 right ascension of the center of
the error circle
33- 38 F6.2 deg DEdeg BATSE J2000 declination of the center of the
error circle (J2000)
40- 44 F5.2 deg Sig Total 1σ statistical BATSE error
circle radius (2)
46- 52 F7.3 deg RA1deg Right ascension of the center of the first
IPN annulus (J2000) in the heliocentric frame
54- 60 F7.3 deg DE1deg Declination of the center of the first IPN
annulus (J2000) in the heliocentric frame
62- 67 F6.3 deg Rad1 Angular radius of the first IPN annulus, in
the heliocentric frame
69- 74 F6.3 deg DelR1 Half-width of the first IPN annulus
(δRIPN1) (3)
76- 82 F7.3 deg RA2deg ? Right ascension of the center of the second
IPN annulus (J2000) in the heliocentric frame
84- 90 F7.3 deg DE2deg ? Declination of the center of the second IPN
annulus (J2000) in the heliocentric frame
92- 97 F6.3 deg Rad2 ? Angular radius of the second IPN annulus, in
the heliocentric frame
99-104 F6.3 deg DelR2 ? Half-width of the second IPN annulus
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Note (1): Flag as follows:
a = Degenerate localization.
b = Localized by the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer (RXTE) All-Sky Monitor
(Smith et al. 1999ApJ...526..683S 1999ApJ...526..683S).
c = Localized by the Advanced Satellite for Cosmology and Astrophysics (ASCA)
(Murakami et al. 1997IAUC.6732....1M 1997IAUC.6732....1M).
d = Localized by BeppoSAX (Galama et al. 1997ApJ...486L...5G 1997ApJ...486L...5G).
e = Localized by BeppoSAX (Piro et al. 1997IAUC.6656....1P 1997IAUC.6656....1P).
f = Localized by the RXTE Proportional Counter Array (Marshall et al.
1997IAUC.6683....1C 1997IAUC.6683....1C) and by ASCA (Murakami et al. 1997IAUC.6722....1M 1997IAUC.6722....1M).
g = Localized by BeppoSAX (Antonelli et al. 1997IAUC.6792....1A 1997IAUC.6792....1A).
h = Localized by BeppoSAX (Piro et al. 1997IAUC.6797....1P 1997IAUC.6797....1P).
i = Localized by BeppoSAX (in't Zand et al. 1998IAUC.6854....1I 1998IAUC.6854....1I).
j = Localized by BeppoSAX (Celidonio et al. 1998IAUC.6851....1C 1998IAUC.6851....1C).
k = Localized by BeppoSAX (in't Zand et al. 1998IAUC.6805....1I 1998IAUC.6805....1I).
l = Localized by BeppoSAX (Nicastro et al. 1998IAUC.6912....2N 1998IAUC.6912....2N).
m = Localized by BeppoSAX (Galama et al. 1998GCN...127....1G 1998GCN...127....1G).
n = Localized by BeppoSAX (Heise et al. 1999IAUC.7099....1H 1999IAUC.7099....1H).
o = Localized by the RXTE All-Sky Monitor (Smith et al. 1999GCN...187....1S 1999GCN...187....1S).
p = Localized by the RXTE Proportional Counter Array (Takeshima, T. &
Marshall, F. 1999, GCN/RXTE PCA Burst Position Notice, 07 May).
q = Localized by BeppoSAX (Dadina et al. 1999IAUC.7160....1D 1999IAUC.7160....1D).
r = Localized by BeppoSAX (Piro et al. 1999GCN...409....1P 1999GCN...409....1P).
s = Localized by BeppoSAX (Piro et al. 1999GCN...500....1P 1999GCN...500....1P).
t = Localized by BeppoSAX (in't Zand et al. 2000ApJ...545..266I 2000ApJ...545..266I).
u = Localized by BeppoSAX (Smith et al. 1999IAUC.7301....2S 1999IAUC.7301....2S).
v = Localized by the RXTE Proportional Counter Array (Takeshima, T.,
Markwardt, C., Marshall, F., Giblin, T., & Kippen, R. 1999, GCN Circ.,
478) and by the Chandra X-Ray Observatory (Piro et al.
1999GCN...393....1G 1999GCN...393....1G).
w = Localized by the RXTE All-Sky Monitor (Smith et al. 2000GCN...665....1S 2000GCN...665....1S).
Note (2): The approximate total 1σ radius is obtained by adding
1.6° in quadrature, but see Briggs et al. 1999ApJS..122..503B 1999ApJS..122..503B
for an improved error model.
Note (3): The 3σ confidence annulus is given by RIPN1±δRIPN1.
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Byte-by-byte Description of file: table3.dat
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Bytes Format Units Label Explanations
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1- 6 I6 --- Burst Date of the burst (YYMMDD)
7 A1 --- f_Burst [o] o: alternative error box for trigger 7647
9- 12 I4 --- Trig [6380,8116] BATSE trigger number
14- 15 I2 h RAh Hour of right ascension (J2000)
17- 18 I2 min RAm Minute of right ascension (J2000)
20- 24 F5.2 s RAs Second of right ascension (J2000)
26 A1 --- DE- Sign of declination (J2000)
27- 28 I2 deg DEd Degree of declination (J2000)
30- 31 I2 arcmin DEm Arcminute of declination (J2000)
33- 37 F5.2 arcsec DEs Arcsecond of declination (J2000)
39 I1 --- loc [1/4] 1=center or 4=corner position (1)
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Note (1): This flag indicates whether the row contains:
1 = the coordinates of the center of the error box
4 = the coordinates of one of the four corners
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History:
From electronic version of the journal
References:
IPN catalogs of GRB:
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Orbiter, WATCH, SIGMA, PHEBUS GRBs
Hurley et al. 2000ApJS..128..549H 2000ApJS..128..549H (1990-1994) Granat-WATCH supplement
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This paper 2011ApJS..196....1H 2011ApJS..196....1H (1996-2000) BATSE 5B supplement
Cat. J/ApJS/196/1
Hurley et al. 2010ApJS..191..179H 2010ApJS..191..179H (1996-2002) BeppoSAX supplement
Cat. J/ApJS/191/179
Hurley et al. 2011ApJS..197...34H 2011ApJS..197...34H (2000-2006) HETE-2 supplement
Cat. J/ApJS/197/34
(End) Emmanuelle Perret [CDS] 14-Nov-2011