The discovery of GW signal from merging neutron stars by LIGO on 17th August 2017 was followed by a short GRB170817A discovered by FERMI and INTEGRAL 1.7 seconds after the loss of the GW signal when it just reached its maximum. Here we present a reproduction of the first paper (published by us in 1984) predicting a short GRB after GW signal of merging neutron stars. Our paper followed the scenario by Clark and Eardley (1977) who predicted a catastrophic disruption of a neutron star in a binary 1.7 seconds after the peak of GW signal. Our next paper in 1990 predicted all the main properties of the short GRB with quite a reasonable accuracy. Typos in English translation are corrected and a few comments are added in the current publication as numbered footnotes (the only footnote from the original paper is marked by an asterisk).
@article{arxiv.1808.05287,
title = {Exploding neutron stars in close binaries},
author = {S. I. Blinnikov and I. D. Novikov and T. V. Perevodchikova and A. G. Polnarev},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1808.05287},
year = {2018}
}
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LaTeX, 7 pages; typo in eq.18 corrected, affiliations added