A Binary Neutron Star GRB Model
Astrophysics
2009-10-30 v1
Abstract
In this paper we present the preliminary results of a model for the production of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) through the compressional heating of binary neutron stars near their last stable orbit prior to merger.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9711307,
title = {A Binary Neutron Star GRB Model},
author = {J. R. Wilson and J. D. Salmonson and G. J. Mathews},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9711307},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
5 pages, 2 figures. Submitted to the Conference Proceedings of the 4th Huntsville Gamma-Ray Burst Symposium