Abstract:
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is one of the most violent events in the universe. The gamma-ray telescope CGRO/BATSE (Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory/Bursts and Transient Source Experiment) consists of 8 Large NaI Area Detectors (LADs) and it can detect more than 2700 GRBs due to its wide energy coverage (-25keV to -1MeV) and large field of view. Fermi (Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope) can measure the spectra in a very wide energy band (from 8keV to more than 300GeV). It opens a new era of observational astronomy in the energetic gamma-ray band. Another mission HETE-2, as the first satellite entirely dedicated to the detection and study of GRBs, the FREGATE (French Gamma Telescope) gamma ray detector on board of HETE-2 is sensitive to photons in the energy band of ~10 to ~400keV. This sensitivity range, extended towards low energies, allows us to explore the emission of GRBs in hard X-rays and X-ray flashes (XRFs), which extend the
Ep distribution to a few keV. These three satellites together provide us plenty of GRB samples. It is necessary to perform a detailed analysis of these data, and to find the contained GRB radiation physics information using statistical methods. The peak energy of the
νFν spectra
Ep is an important quantity of the GRBs and it is dramatically different from burst to burst. We study the peak energy
Ep distribution of the
νFν spectra of GRBs with samples of 57 bursts observed by HETE-2, 156 bright bursts observed by BATSE and 1407 bursts observed by Fermi. Our results show that the distribution of
Ep is wide, and the distribution profile of the observed
Ep from BATSE, HETE-2 and Fermi/GBM GRBs is consistent. The peak energy of the BATSE sample is statistically higher than that of HETE-2 and Fermi samples, but maybe this is because the selection of the BATSE samples are bright bursts. And the distributions of Log
N-Log
Ep observed by these three satellites are also consistent with each other. These results indicate that the
Ep distributions of GRBs observed by different satellites are similar, and the radiation physics of of these GRBs may be similar.