Gamma-Ray Bursts from Primordial Quark Objects in Space
Abstract
We investigate the possibility that gamma-ray bursts originate in a concentric spherical shell with a given average redshift and find that this is indeed compatible with the data from the third BATSE (3B) catalog. It is also shown that there is enough freedom in the choice of unknown burst properties to allow even for extremely large distances to the majority of bursts. Therefore, we speculate about an early, and very energetic, origin of bursts, and suggest that they come from phase transitions in massive objects of pure quark matter, left over from the Big Bang.
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@article{arxiv.astro-ph/9711346,
title = {Gamma-Ray Bursts from Primordial Quark Objects in Space},
author = {B. Anoushirvani and D. Enström and S. Fredriksson and J. Hansson and P. Ökvist and A. Nicolaidis and S. Ekelin},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/9711346},
year = {2016}
}
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11 pages, Latex, 3 postscript figures, to be publ in the Proc of the Joint Meeting of the Networks 'The Fundamental Structure of Matter' and 'Tests of the Electroweak Symmetry Breaking', Ouranoupolis, Greece, May 1997