Gamma-ray bursts from rapidly spinning neutron stars

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Sep 2000

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GAMMA-RAY BURSTS: 5th Huntsville Symposium. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 526, pp. 589-593 (2000).

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Neutron Stars, X-Ray Binaries, Gamma-Ray Sources, Gamma-Ray Bursts

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A neutron star in an X-ray binary (XRB) is spun up by mass transfer from its companion to rotation periods of the order of a millisecond. Evidence for this are the existence of ms pulsars, believed to descend from X-ray binaries. Direct evidence of such rotation rates in XRB is the of 2.5 ms rotation in SAX 1808. The rotation energy in a neutron star spinning at 1 ms is 1052 erg, in the range of that required for GRB. The environment also satisfies the baryon loading constraint, since the accretion disk contains only of the order 10-9 Msolar, and the companion star blocks only of the order 1% of the sky as seen from the neutron star. .

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