Radio Flares from Collisions of Neutron Stars with Interstellar Asteroids
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2019-09-04 v2 Earth and Planetary Astrophysics
Abstract
We propose that collisions between neutron stars and interstellar asteroids, such as `Oumuamua, could power observable radio flares in the Milky Way galaxy. We find the rate of such events at to be .
Cite
@article{arxiv.1908.11440,
title = {Radio Flares from Collisions of Neutron Stars with Interstellar Asteroids},
author = {Amir Siraj and Abraham Loeb},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.11440},
year = {2019}
}
Comments
3 pages, 3 figures; submitted for publication