A note on 'Analysis of gamma-ray burst duration distribution using mixtures of skewed distributions'

Hok Shing Kwong; Saralees Nadarajah

doi:10.1093/mnras/stx2373

A note on 'Analysis of gamma-ray burst duration distribution using mixtures of skewed distributions'

Hok Shing Kwong, Saralees Nadarajah^*

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Abstract

Tarnopolski [Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 458 (2016) 2024-2031] analysed data sets on gamma-ray burst durations using skew distributions. He showed that the best fits are provided by two skew normal and three Gaussian distributions. Here, we suggest other distributions, including some that are heavy tailed. At least one of these distributions is shown to provide better fits than those considered in Tarnopolski. Five criteria are used to assess best fits.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	625-646
Number of pages	22
Journal	Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Volume	473
Issue number	1
Early online date	13 Sept 2017
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1093/mnras/stx2373
Publication status	Published - 2018

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Methods: statistical

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