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General relativistic massive vector field effects in Gamma Ray Burst production

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology 2017-11-22 v2 High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

Abstract

To explain the extremely high energy release, >1053>10^{53}~erg, suggested by the observations of some Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) we propose a new energy extraction mechanism from the rotation energy of a Kerr-Newman black hole (BH) by a massive photon field. Numerical results show that this mechanism is stable with respect to the black hole rotation parameter, aa, with a clear dependence on the BH mass, MM, and charge, QQ, and can extract energies up to 105410^{54} erg. The controversial "energy crisis" problem of GRBs that does not show evidence for collimated emission may benefit of this energy extraction mechanism. With these results we set a lower bound on the coupling between electromagnetic and gravitational fields.

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@article{arxiv.1603.01464,
  title  = {General relativistic massive vector field effects in Gamma Ray Burst production},
  author = {Fabrizio Tamburini and Mariafelicia De Laurentis and Lorenzo Amati and Bo Thidé},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1603.01464},
  year   = {2017}
}

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