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International Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics, 2012, 2, 1-5 1 / 10.4236/ijaa.2012.21001 Published Online March 2012 (http://www.SciRP.org/journal/ijaa) Dependence of the GRB Lag-Luminosity Relation on Redshift in the Source Frame Walid J. Azzam Department of Physics, College of Science, University of Bahrain, Sakhir, Kingdom of Bahrain Email: wjazzam@sci.uob.bh, wjazzam@ Received December 24, 2011; revised January 29, 2012; accepted February 8, 2012 ABSTRACT The lag-luminosity relation for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is an anti-correlation between the time lag,  , which repre- lag sents the delay between the arrival of hard and soft photons, and the isotropic peak luminosity, L . In this paper, we use a sample of 43 Swift bursts, which was taken from Ukwatta et al., to investigate whether this relation depends on redshift. Both the z-correction and the k-correction are taken into account. Our analysis consists of binning the data in redshift, z,then applying a fit of the form: log L A Blog   , for each bin, where  is the time-lag in the    lag0 lag0  lag0 burst’s source frame, and   is the corresponding mean value for the entire sample. The goal is to see whether the lag0 two fitting parameters, A and B, evolve in a systematic way with z . Our results indicate that both the normalization, A , and the slope, B, seem to vary in a systematic w