Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
1996-09-07
Astrophys.J. 482 (1997) L29-L32
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
Ap.J.(Letters), in press, 1997; orig. subm. 8/31/96, latex file (uses AAS macro aaspp4), 10 pages
Scientific paper
We discuss the properties of magnetically dominated jet-like outflows from stellar mass black holes surrounded by debris tori resulting from neutron star disruption. These jets may have narrow cores (along the rotation axis) which are almost free of baryons and attain very high bulk Lorentz factors $\simg 10^6$. The jets give rise to a characteristic MeV to TeV emission as well as to relativistic shocks producing the usual MeV bursts. Because the outflow is highly directional the properties of the observed gamma-rays would depend on the viewing angle relative to the rotation axis. Even for the most intense bursts, which under the assumption of isotropic emission and substantial redshifts would be inferred to emit $10^{52}-10^{53}$ erg, the efficiencies required are only $10^{-2}-10^{-4}$.
Meszaros Peter
Rees Martin J.
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