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Event Rate of Fast Radio Burst from Binary Neutron-star Mergers

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2023-08-16 v1

Abstract

It is proposed that one-off fast radio burst (FRB) with periodic structures may be produced during the inspiral phase of a binary neutron-star (BNS) merger. In this paper, we study the event rate of such kind of FRB. We first investigate the properties of two one-off FRBs with periodic structures (i.e., FRB~20191221A and FRB~20210213A) in this scenario, by assuming the fast magnetosonic wave is responsible for their radio emission. For the luminosities and periods of these bursts, it is found that the pre-merger BNS with magnetic field strength B1012GsB\gtrsim 10^{12}\,{\rm Gs} is required. This is relatively high compared with that of the most of the BNSs observed in our Galaxy, of which the magnetic field is around 109Gs10^{9}\,{\rm Gs}. Since the observed BNSs in our Galaxy are the binaries without suffering merger, a credited event rate of BNS-merger originated FRBs should be estimated by considering the evolution of both the BNS systems and their magnetic fields. Based on the population synthesis and adopting a decaying magnetic field of NSs, we estimate the event rate of BNS-mergers relative to their final magnetic fields. We find that the rapid merged BNSs tend to merge with high magnetization, and the event rate of BNS-merger originated FRBs, i.e., the BNS-mergers with both NSs' magnetic field being higher than 1012Gs10^{12}\,{\rm Gs} is 8×104yr1\sim8\times10^{4}\,\rm{yr}^{-1} (19%19 \% of the total BNS-mergers) in redshift z<1z<1.

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@article{arxiv.2307.02111,
  title  = {Event Rate of Fast Radio Burst from Binary Neutron-star Mergers},
  author = {Zhi-Lin Chen and Rui-Chong Hu and Da-Bin Lin and En-Wei Liang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2307.02111},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

11 pages, 2 figures, accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal