The long and the short of it: modelling double neutron star and collapsar Galactic dynamics

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2010-03-23

arxiv.org/abs/1004.0131v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

Galaxy Astrophysics

Accepted by MNRAS, 18 pages, 12 figures, 5 tables

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The work presented here examines populations of double compact binary systems and tidally enhanced collapsars. We make use of BINPOP and BINKIN, two components of a recently developed population synthesis package. Results focus on correlations of both binary and spatial evolutionary population characteristics. Pulsar and long duration gamma-ray burst observations are used in concert with our models to draw the conclusions that: double neutron star binaries can merge rapidly on timescales of a few million years (much less than that found for the observed double neutron star population), common envelope evolution within these models is a very important phase in double neutron star formation, and observations of long gamma-ray burst projected distances are more centrally concentrated than our simulated coalescing double neutron star and collapsar Galactic populations. Better agreement is found with dwarf galaxy models although the outcome is strongly linked to the assumed birth radial distribution. The birth rate of the double neutron star population in our models range from 4-160 Myr^-1 and the merger rate ranges from 3-150 Myr^-1. The upper and lower limits of the rates results from including electron capture supernova kicks to neutron stars and decreasing the common envelope efficiency respectively. Our double black hole merger rates suggest that black holes should receive an asymmetric kick at birth.

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