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GRB 090510: a genuine short-GRB from a binary neutron star coalescing into a Kerr-Newman black hole

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2016-11-08 v2 Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics

Abstract

In a new classification of merging binary neutron stars (NSs) we separate short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) in two sub-classes. The ones with Eiso1052E_{iso}\lesssim10^{52} erg coalesce to form a massive NS and are indicated as short gamma-ray flashes (S-GRFs). The hardest, with Eiso1052E_{iso}\gtrsim10^{52} erg, coalesce to form a black hole (BH) and are indicated as genuine short-GRBs (S-GRBs). Within the fireshell model, S-GRBs exhibit three different components: the P-GRB emission, observed at the transparency of a self-accelerating baryon-e+ee^+e^- plasma; the prompt emission, originating from the interaction of the accelerated baryons with the circumburst medium; the high-energy (GeV) emission, observed after the P-GRB and indicating the formation of a BH. GRB 090510 gives the first evidence for the formation of a Kerr BH or, possibly, a Kerr-Newman BH. Its P-GRB spectrum can be fitted by a convolution of thermal spectra whose origin can be traced back to an axially symmetric dyadotorus. A large value of the angular momentum of the newborn BH is consistent with the large energetics of this S-GRB, which reach in the 1--10000 keV range Eiso=(3.95±0.21)×1052E_{iso}=(3.95\pm0.21)\times10^{52} erg and in the 0.1--100 GeV range ELAT=(5.78±0.60)×1052E_{LAT}=(5.78\pm0.60)\times10^{52} erg, the most energetic GeV emission ever observed in S-GRBs. The theoretical redshift zth=0.75±0.17z_{th}=0.75\pm0.17 that we derive from the fireshell theory is consistent with the spectroscopic measurement z=0.903±0.003z=0.903\pm0.003, showing the self-consistency of the theoretical approach. All S-GRBs exhibit GeV emission, when inside the Fermi-LAT field of view, unlike S-GRFs, which never evidence it. The GeV emission appears to be the discriminant for the formation of a BH in GRBs, confirmed by their observed overall energetics.

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@article{arxiv.1607.02400,
  title  = {GRB 090510: a genuine short-GRB from a binary neutron star coalescing into a Kerr-Newman black hole},
  author = {R. Ruffini and M. Muccino and Y. Aimuratov and C. L. Bianco and C. Cherubini and M. Enderli and M. Kovacevic and R. Moradi and A. V. Penacchioni and G. B. Pisani and J. A. Rueda and Y. Wang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1607.02400},
  year   = {2016}
}

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23 pages, 11 figures, this version is accepted on ApJ