Observational constraints on the inter-binary stellar flare hypothesis for the gamma-ray bursts

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Jan 1994

adsabs.harvard.edu/cgi-bin/nph-data_query?bibcode=1994a%26a...281l..21r&link_type=abstract

Astronomy and Astrophysics (ISSN 0004-6361), vol. 281, no. 1, p. L21-L24

Computer Science

Numerical Analysis

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Binary Stars, Gamma Ray Bursts, Stellar Flares, Stellar Models, Anisotropy, Cataclysmic Variables, Gamma Ray Observatory, Numerical Analysis, Stellar Luminosity

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The Gamma Ray Observatory/Burst and Transient Source Experiment (GRO/BATSE) results on the Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) have given an internally consistent set of observations of about 260 GRBs which have been released for analysis by the BATSE team. Using this database we investigate our earlier suggestion (Vahia and Rao, 1988) that GRBs are inter-binary stellar flares from a group of objects classified as Magnetically Active Stellar Systems (MASS) which includes flare stars, RS CVn binaries and cataclysmic variables. We show that there exists an observationally consistent parameter space for the number density, scale height and flare luminosity of MASS which explains the complete log(N) - log(P) distribution of GRBs as also the observed isotropic distribution. We further use this model to predict anisotropy in the GRB distribution at intermediate luminosities. We make definite predictions under the stellar flare hypothesis that can be tested in the near future.

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