Bigger Bursts From Merging Neutron Stars

Preprint

16 February 1999

preprint
Published by arXiv in arXiv

https://doi.org/10.48550/arXiv.astro-ph/9902232

Abstract

GRB 990123 may have radiated more than one solar mass equivalent in just its gamma emissions. Though this may be within the upper limit of the binding energy available from neutron stars in the Schwarzschild metric, it is difficult to imagine a process with the required efficiency of conversion to gamma rays. Neutron stars of ~10 solar mass are permitted in the Yilmaz metric. A merger of two neutron stars of maximum mass could release approximately 10 solar mass equivalent binding energy.

Keywords

MASS EQUIVALENT
MERGING NEUTRON
NEUTRON STARS
BIGGER BURSTS
SOLAR MASS
GAMMA RAYS
STARS GRB

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Published version: The Astrophysical Journal, 517 (2), L117.

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