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The merger of compact binaries, especially black holes and neutron stars, is frequently invoked to explain gamma-ray bursts (GRB's). In this paper, we present three dimensional hydrodynamical simulations of the relatively neglected mergers…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-19 C. L. Fryer , S. E. Woosley , M. Herant , Melvyn B. Davies

Neutrino-cooled accretion flow around a spinning black hole, produced by a compact binary merger is a promising scenario for jet formation and launching magnetically-driven outflows. Based on GW170817 gravitational wave detection by LIGO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-06 Fatemeh Hossein Nouri , Agnieszka Janiuk , Małgorzata Przerwa

The first X-ray afterglow for a short (~30 ms), hard gamma-ray burst was detected by Swift on 9 May 2005 (GRB 050509b). No optical or radio counterpart was identified in follow-up observations. The tentative association of the GRB with a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 William H. Lee , Enrico Ramirez-Ruiz , Jonathan Granot

We propose a model for short duration gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs) based on the formation of a quark star after the merger of two neutron stars. We assume that the sGRB central engine is a proto-magnetar, which has been previously invoked to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-11 Alessandro Drago , Andrea Lavagno , Brian Metzger , Giuseppe Pagliara

We investigate the long-term evolution of black hole accretion disks formed in neutron star mergers. These disks expel matter that contributes to an $r$-process kilonova, and can produce relativistic jets powering short gamma-ray bursts.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Rodrigo Fernández , Alexander Tchekhovskoy , Eliot Quataert , Francois Foucart , Daniel Kasen

In addition to producing a strong gravitational signal, a short gamma-ray burst (GRB), and a compact remnant, neutron star mergers eject significant masses at significant kinetic energies. This mass ejection takes place via dynamical mass…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Kenta Hotokezaka , Tsvi Piran

The time evolution of a Gamma-ray burst (GRB) is associated with the evolution of a supernova remnant (SNR). The time evolution of the flux of a GRB is modeled introducing a law for the density of the medium in the advancing layer. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-11 L. Zaninetti

In this paper we present a model for the short (< second) population of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this model heated neutron stars in a close binary system near their last stable orbit emit neutrinos at large luminosities (~ 10^53…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Jay D. Salmonson , James R. Wilson

We study the high-energy properties of GRB 181123B, a short gamma-ray burst (sGRB) at redshift $z\approx$1.75. We show that, despite its nominal short duration with $T_{90}<$2 s, this burst displays evidence of a temporally extended…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-05 S. Dichiara , E. Troja , P. Beniamini , B. O'Connor , M. Moss , A. Y. Lien , R. Ricci , L. Amati , G. Ryan , T. Sakamoto

Both the long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) and the Type I superluminous supernovae (SLSNe~I) have been proposed to be primarily powered by central magnetars. A correlation, proposed between the initial spin period ($P_0$) and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-11 W. L. Lin , X. F. Wang , L. J. Wang , Z. G. Dai

The most popular progenitor model for short duration Gamma-Ray bursts (sGRBs) is the merger of two compact objects. However, the short GRB population exhibit a certain diversity: some bursts display an extended emission (EE), continuing in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-26 Nikhil Anand , Mustafa Shahid , Lekshmi Resmi

The origin of magnetic fields that permeate the blast waves of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a long-standing problem. The present paper argues that in four GRBs revealing extended emission at >100 MeV, with follow-up in the radio, optical and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Martin Lemoine , Zhuo Li , Xiang-Yu Wang

The collapsar model was proposed to explain the long-duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), while the short GRBs are associated with the mergers of compact objects. In the first case, mainly the energetics of the events is consistent with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-10 Agnieszka Janiuk , Kostas Sapountzis

We simulate a black-hole accretion disk system with full-transport general relativistic neutrino radiation magnetohydrodynamics (GR$\nu$RMHD) for 1.2 seconds. This system is likely to form after the merger of two compact objects and is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-18 T. M. Sprouse , K. A. Lund , J. M. Miller , G. C. McLaughlin , M. R. Mumpower

Compact binary mergers may have already been observed as they are the leading model for short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). Radioactive decay within the ejecta from these mergers is expected to produce an infra-red flare, dubbed macronova (or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-16 Assaf Horesh , Kenta Hotokezaka , Tsvi Piran , Ehud Nakar , Paul Hancock

The merger of binary neutron stars, or of a neutron star and a stellar-mass black hole, can result in the formation of a massive rotating torus around a spinning black hole. In addition to providing collimating media for gamma-ray burst…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-13 Daniel M. Siegel , Brian D. Metzger

The energy source has remained to be the great mystery in understanding of the gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) if the events are placed at cosmological distances as indicated by a number of recent observations. The currently popular models include…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Bo Qin , Xiang-Ping Wu , Ming-Chung Chu , Li-Zhi Fang , Jing-Yao Hu

Numerical simulations are essential to understand the complex physics accompanying the merger of binary systems of neutron stars. However, these simulations become computationally challenging when they have to model the merger remnants on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-10 Jin-Liang Jiang , Harry Ho-Yin Ng , Michail Chabanov , Luciano Rezzolla

GW170817/GRB170817A probably marks a double neutron star coalescence. Extended Emission $t_s\simeq (0.67\pm0.03)$\,s post-merger shows an estimated energy output ${\cal E}\simeq (3.5\pm1)\%M_\odot c^2$ determined by response curves to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-29 Maurice H. P. M. van Putten , Massimo Della Valle , Amir Levinson

Assuming an adiabatic evolution of a Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) remnant interacting with an external medium, we calculate the injection, cooling, and absorption break frequencies, and the afterglow flux for plausible orderings of the break and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Panaitescu , P. Kumar