Gravitational-wave bursts from soft gamma-ray repeaters: Can they be detected?
Abstract
In this letter we suggest a scenario for simultaneous emission of gravitational-wave and -ray bursts (GRBs) from soft gamma-ray repeaters (SGRs). we argue that both of the radiations can be generated by a super-Eddington accreting neutron stars in X-ray binaries. In this model a supercritical accretion transient takes back onto the remnant star the disk leftover by the hydrodynamic instability phase of a low magnetized, rapidly rotating neutron star in a X-ray binary system. We estimate the rise timescale , minimum mass accretion rate needed to trigger the -ray emission, , and its effective associated temperature , and the timescale for repeating a burst of -rays . Altogether, we find the associated GW amplitude and frequency to be and , for a source distance . Detectability of the pulses by t he forthcoming GW anntenas is discussed and found likely.
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@article{arxiv.gr-qc/9801102,
title = {Gravitational-wave bursts from soft gamma-ray repeaters: Can they be detected?},
author = {H. J. Mosquera Cuesta and J. C. N. de Araujo and O. D. Aguiar and J. E. Horvath},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:gr-qc/9801102},
year = {2011}
}
Comments
5 pages, [prl]{revtex}, 1 PS figure included. To appear in Physical Review Letters