The analogy of K-correction in the topic of gamma-ray bursts

TL;DR

This paper investigates the redshift distribution of gamma-ray bursts, confirming that fainter GRBs can be closer, and draws analogies with K-correction concepts, using updated data to revisit previous findings.

Contribution

It introduces an analogy of K-correction in the context of GRB redshift analysis and re-examines earlier results with newer datasets.

Findings

Fainter GRBs can be closer on average.

The study confirms previous results with newer data.

An analogy of K-correction is proposed for GRB analysis.

Abstract

It is well-known that there are two types of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs): short/hard and long/soft ones, respectively. The long GRBs are coupled to supernovae, but the short ones are associated with the so called macronovae (also known as kilonovae), which can serve as the sources of gravitational waves as well. The kilonovae can arise from the merging of two neutron-stars. The neutron stars can be substituded by more massive black holes as well. Hence, the topic of gamma-ray bursts (mainly the topic of short ones) and the topic of massive binaries, are strongly connected. In this contribution, the redshifts of GRBs are studied. The surprising result - namely that the apparently fainter GRBs can be in average at smaller distances - is discussed again. In essence, the results of M\'esz\'aros et al. (2011) are studied again using newer samples of GRBs. The former result is confirmed by the newer data.