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Approximately 1/4-1/2 of short duration Gamma-Ray Bursts are followed by variable X-ray emission lasting ~ 100 s with a fluence comparable or exceeding that of the initial burst itself. The long duration and significant energy of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 N. Bucciantini , B. D. Metzger , T. A. Thompson , E. Quataert

Extended emission gamma-ray bursts are a subset of the `short' class of burst which exhibit an early time rebrightening of gamma emission in their light curves. This extended emission arises just after the initial emission spike, and can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Ben Gompertz , Paul O'Brien , Graham Wynn , Antonia Rowlinson

A rapidly rotating and highly magnetized remnant neutron star (NS; magnetar) could survive from a merger of double NSs and drive a powerful relativistic wind. The early interaction of this wind with the previous merger ejecta can lead to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-15 Guang-Lei Wu , Yun-Wei Yu , Shao-Ze Li

Neutron-star mergers can launch mildly relativistic to moderately relativistic outflows whose interaction with the ejecta can reshape kilonova emission. We parametrically study magnetically powered outbursts from long-lived merger remnants,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-06 Yuan Feng , Oleg Korobkin , Elias R. Most , Ananda F. Smith , Christopher J. Fontes

Magnetars are young, highly magnetized neutron stars that are associated with magnetar short bursts (MSBs), magnetar giant flares (MGFs), and at least some fast radio bursts (FRBs). In this work, we consider a magnetar and a main sequence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-20 Yu-Jia Wei , Yuan-Pei Yang , Da-Ming Wei , Zi-Gao Dai

The merger of neutron stars drives a relativistic jet which can be observed as a short gamma-ray burst. A strong large-scale magnetic field is necessary to launch the relativistic jet. However, the magnetohydrodynamical mechanism to build…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-19 Kenta Kiuchi , Alexis Reboul-Salze , Masaru Shibata , Yuichiro Sekiguchi

The Kelvin-Helmholtz cooling epoch, lasting tens of seconds after the birth of a neutron star in a successful core-collapse supernova, is accompanied by a neutrino-driven wind. For magnetar-strength ($\sim10^{15}$ G) large scale surface…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-09-29 Todd A. Thompson , Philip Chang , Eliot Quataert

Optical re-brightenings in the afterglows of some gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are unexpected within the framework of the simple external shock model. While it has been suggested that the central engines of some GRBs are newly born magnetars, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-11 J. J. Geng , X. F. Wu , Y. F. Huang , L. Li , Z. G. Dai

The relativistic wind of obliquely-rotating pulsars consists of toroidal stripes of opposite magnetic field polarity, separated by current sheets of hot plasma. By means of two- and three-dimensional particle-in-cell simulations, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 Lorenzo Sironi , Anatoly Spitkovsky

We use ideal axisymmetric relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations to calculate the spindown of a newly formed millisecond, B ~ 10^{15} G, magnetar and its interaction with the surrounding stellar envelope during a core-collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 N. Bucciantini , E. Quataert , B. D. Metzger , T. A. Thompson , J. Arons , L. Del Zanna

The emission of intense radio pulses by flaring magnetars is investigated. Small-scale current gradients can be imprinted into a strongly magnetized outflow by the same processes that source fireball radiation in the closed magnetosphere.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-14 Christopher Thompson

Recent observations by the Swift satellite have revealed long-lasting ($\sim 10^2-10^5\,\mathrm{s}$), "plateau-like" X-ray afterglows in the vast majority of short gamma-ray bursts events. This has put forward the idea of a long-lived…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-07 Daniel M. Siegel , Riccardo Ciolfi

Most of the rotational luminosity of a pulsar is carried away by a relativistic magnetised wind in which the matter energy flux is negligible compared to the Poynting flux. Near the equatorial plane of an obliquely rotating pulsar…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Jerome Petri , Yuri Lyubarsky

We perform a series of two-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of the rotational core-collapse of a magnetized massive star. We employ a realistic equation of state and take into account the neutrino cooling by the so-called leakage…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Tomoya Takiwaki , Kei Kotake , Shigehiro Nagataki , Katsuhiko Sato

The origin of radio emission from plerions is considered. Recent observations suggest that radio emitting electrons are presently accelerated rather than having been injected at early stages of the plerion evolution. The observed flat…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Y. E. Lyubarsky

Spider pulsars are compact binary systems composed of a millisecond pulsar and a low-mass companion. Their X-ray emission - modulated on the orbital period - is interpreted as synchrotron radiation from high-energy electrons accelerated at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Jorge Cortés , Lorenzo Sironi

Angular momentum loss by the plasma wind is considered as a universal feature of isolated neutron stars including magnetars. The wind nebulae powered by magnetars allow us to compare the wind properties and the spin-evolution of magnetars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-31 Shuta J. Tanaka

The late stage of an inspiraling neutron star binary gives rise to strong gravitational wave emission due to its highly dynamic, strong gravity. Moreover, interactions between the stellar magnetospheres can produce considerable…

General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology · Physics 2013-08-27 Carlos Palenzuela , Luis Lehner , Marcelo Ponce , Steven L. Liebling , Matthew Anderson , David Neilsen , Patrick Motl

We analyze the model of gamma-ray binaries, consisting of a massive star and a pulsar with ultrarelativistic wind. We consider radiation from energetic particles, accelerated at the pulsar wind termination shock, and feedback of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-06 E. Derishev , F. Aharonian

We investigate the emission of rotating magnetized neutron stars due to the acceleration and radiation of particles in the relativistic wind and in the magnetotail of the star. We consider that the charged particles are accelerated by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. M. Romanova , G. A. Chulsky , R. V. E. Lovelace