High velocity neutron stars and γ-ray bursts

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Jan 1996

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Astrophysics and Space Science, Volume 235, Issue 2, pp.289-296

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

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The observations of the BATSE instrument on the Compton Gamma-Ray Observatory show that the spatial distribution of γ-ray burst sources is isotropic but radially non-uniform. As is well known, the spectral features, the time histories and the X-ray tails present in some γ-ray bursts suggest that they may arise from galactic neutron stars. But, low velocity neutron stars born in the Galactic disk would concentrate toward the galactic plane and center, and could not fit the BATSE results. However, the high velocity neutron stars with velocity ˜1000 km s-1 may escape from the Galactic gravitational field and form a nearly isotropic distribution. Here we calculate the three statistical values of , and as functions of the intensitiesC max/C min and find that they could be fitted by the distribution of high velocity neutron stars under the assumption that the high velocity neutron stars should turn on as γ-ray burst sources only after some time (perhaps after they have ceased to be radio pulsars). Our calculation shows that the statistical value of is more sensitive than to the angular distribution of high velocity neutron stars, i.e. the deviation of from 0 is more readily detected than the deviation of sin2 b from 1/3, so we expect that with the increasing sensitivity of instrument and the more exact value of , it is possible to determine whether this high velocity neutron star model is correct. Some results are discussed in the text.

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