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Line-broadening in gravitational radiation from gamma-ray burst-supernovae

Astrophysics 2010-11-19 v1 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

Core-collapse in massive stars is believed to produce a rapidly spinning black hole surrounded by a compact disk or torus. This forms an energetic MeV-nucleus inside a remnant He-core, powered by black hole-spin energy. The output produces a GRB-supernova, while most of the energy released is in gravitational radiation. The intrinsic gravitational-wave spectrum is determined by multipole mass-moments in the torus. Quadrupole gravitational radiation is radiated at about twice the Keplerian frequency of the torus, which is non-axisymmetric when sufficiently slender, representing a ``{\em black hole-blob}" binary system or a "{\em blob-blob}" binary bound to the central black hole. We here discuss line-broadening in the observed spectrum due to Lense-Thirring precession, which modulates the orientation of the torus to the line-of-sight. This spectral feature is long-lived, due to weak damping of precessional motion. These events are believed to occur perhaps once per year within a distance of 100Mpc, which provides a candidate source for Advanced LIGO.

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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0402005,
  title  = {Line-broadening in gravitational radiation from gamma-ray burst-supernovae},
  author = {Maurice H. P. M. van Putten and Hyun Kyu Lee and Chul H. Lee and Hongsu Kim},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0402005},
  year   = {2010}
}

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7 pages, two figures, accepted for publication in PRD