On the diversity of short GRBs

Details On the diversity of short GRBs On the diversity of short GRBs

2003-06-09

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0306172v1

Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 343 (2003) L36

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

accepted for publication in MNRAS Letters, 6 pages, 3 figures

Scientific paper

10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06889.x

Hydrodynamical simulations of the last inspiral stages and the final coalescence of a double neutron star system are used to investigate the power of the neutrino-driven wind, the energy and momentum of the fireball produced via $\nu \bar{\nu}$-annihilation, and the intensity and character of their interaction. It is argued that the outflow that derives from the debris will have enough pressure to collimate the relativistic fireball that it surrounds. The low luminosity relativistic jet will then appear brighter to an observer within the beam although most of the energy of the event is in the unseen, less collimated and slower wind. This model leads to a simple physical interpretation of the isotropic luminosities implied for short GRBs at cosmological distances. A wide variety of burst phenomenology could be attributable to the dependence of the neutrino luminosity on the initial mass of the double NS binary.

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