A&A Supplement series, Vol. 128, April I 1998, 1-8
Received May 23; accepted August 8, 1997
S.Y. Sazonov
,
R.A. Sunyaev,
O.V. Terekhov
,
N. Lund
,
S. Brandt
,
and A.J. Castro-Tirado
Send offprint request: S.Y. Sazonov (sazonov@hea.iki.rssi.ru)
Space Research Institute, Russian Academy of Sciences,
Profsoyuznaya 84/32, 117810 Moscow, Russia
Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschildstr 1,
85740 Garching, Germany
Danish Space Research Institute, Juliane Maries Vej 30, DK 2100
Copenhagen Ø, Denmark
Los Alamos National Laboratory, MS D436, Los Alamos, NM 87545, U.S.A.
Laboratorio de astrofısica Espacial y Fısica Fundamental
(LAEFF), INTA, P.O. Box 50727, 28080 Madrid, Spain
We present the catalogue of gamma-ray bursts (GRB) observed with the WATCH
all-sky monitor on board the GRANAT satellite during the period
December 1989 to September 1994. The cosmic origin of 95 bursts comprising the
catalogue is confirmed either by their localization with WATCH
or by their detection with other GRB experiments. For each burst
its time history and information on its intensity in the two energy
ranges 8-20 keV and 20-60 keV are presented. Most events show
hardening of the energy spectrum near the burst peak. In part of the
bursts an X-ray precursor or a tail is seen at 8-20 keV. We have
determined the celestial positions of the sources of 47 bursts. Their
localization regions (at 
confidence level) are equivalent in
area to circles with radii ranging from 0.2 to 1.6 deg. The burst
sources appear isotropically distributed on the sky on large angular scales.
keywords: astronomical data bases: miscellaneous -- catalogs -- gamma rays: bursts