Limits on energy storage in the crusts of accreting neutron stars

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Apr 1996

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High velocity neutron stars and gamma-ray bursts. AIP Conference Proceedings, Volume 366, pp. 124-128 (1996).

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Neutron Stars, Accretion And Accretion Disks

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We have carried out a systematic study of the storage of nuclear and gravitational energy in the crusts of old neutron stars that are slowly accreting matter from the interstellar medium or distant binary companion stars. From calculations of the evolution of the crust over a broad range of neutron-star masses, radii, and accretion rates, we obtain an upper limit of approximately 1046 ergs on the total amount of energy that can be stored. This limit places a strong constraint on any model that ascribes a subset of gamma-ray bursts to the release of such energy, and is also relevant to any other energetic celestial phenomenon that might be associated with a galactic-disk population of isolated neutron stars.

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