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Church, Ross P., Levan, Andrew J., Davies, Melvyn B. and Kim, Chunglee (2013) Properties of long gamma-ray bursts from massive compact binaries. Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences, Volume 371 (Number 1992). Article number 20120230. doi:10.1098/rsta.2012.0230 ISSN 1364-503X.
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Official URL: http://dx.doi.org/10.1098/rsta.2012.0230
Abstract
We consider the implications of a model for long-duration gamma-ray bursts in which the progenitor is spun up in a close binary by tidal interactions with a massive black-hole companion. We investigate a sample of such binaries produced by a binary population synthesis, and show that the model predicts several common features in the accretion on to the newly formed black hole. In all cases, the accretion rate declines as approximately t−5/3 until a break at a time of order 104 s. The accretion rate declines steeply thereafter. Subsequently, there is flaring activity, with the flare peaking between 104 and 105 s, the peak time being correlated with the flare energy. We show that these times are set by the semi-major axis of the binary, and hence the process of tidal spin-up; furthermore, they are consistent with flares seen in the X-ray light curves of some long gamma-ray bursts.
Item Type: | Journal Article | ||||
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Divisions: | Faculty of Science, Engineering and Medicine > Science > Physics | ||||
Journal or Publication Title: | Philosophical Transactions of the Royal Society A: Mathematical, Physical and Engineering Sciences | ||||
Publisher: | The Royal Society Publishing | ||||
ISSN: | 1364-503X | ||||
Official Date: | 2013 | ||||
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Volume: | Volume 371 | ||||
Number: | Number 1992 | ||||
Page Range: | Article number 20120230 | ||||
DOI: | 10.1098/rsta.2012.0230 | ||||
Status: | Peer Reviewed | ||||
Publication Status: | Published | ||||
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