A temporal analysis was performed on a sample of 100 bright short GRBs with
T90 < 2s from the BATSE Current Catalog along with a similar analysis on 319
long bright GRBs with T90 > 2s from the same catalog. The short GRBs were
denoised using a median filter and the long GRBs were denoised using a wavelet
method. Both samples were subjected to an automated pulse selection algorithm
to objectively determine the effects of neighbouring pulses. The rise times,
fall times, FWHM, pulse amplitudes and areas were measured and their frequency
distributions are presented. The time intervals between pulses were also
measured. The frequency distributions of the pulse properties were found to be
similar and consistent with lognormal distributions for both the short and long
GRBs. The time intervals between the pulses and the pulse amplitudes of
neighbouring pulses were found to be correlated with each other. The same
emission mechanism can account for the two sub-classes of GRBs.Comment: 3 pages, 8 figures; Proceedings of "Gamma-Ray Burst and Afterglow
Astronomy 2001", Woods Hol