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May 2000
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American Astronomical Society, 195th AAS Meeting, #133.08; Bulletin of the American Astronomical Society, Vol. 32, p.881
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We consider whether a gamma-ray burst can result from a merger between a neutron star and a massive main-sequence star in a binary system following a supernova explosion. The scenario for how this can happen is outlined in Leonard, Hills & Dewey 1994, ApJ, 423, L19-L22. The initially more massive star in a massive binary system evolves and undergoes core collapse to produce a neutron star and supernova. Since the outer layers of the originally more massive star have been transferred to the other star, then the supernova may be hydrogen deficient. The newly-formed neutron star receives a random kick during the explosion. In a small fraction of the cases, the kick has the appropriate direction and amplitude to remove most of the orbital angular momentum of the post-supernova binary system. The result is an orbit with a pericenter smaller than the radius of the non-exploding star. The neutron star rather quickly becomes embedded in the other star, and sinks to its center, giving the envelope of the merged object a lot of rotational angular momentum in the process. Leonard, Hills & Dewey estimate the rate of this process in the Galaxy to be 0.06 per square kpc per Myr for secondaries more massive than 15 solar masses. The fate of the merged object has been the source of much speculation, and we shall assume that a collapsar-like scenario results. That is, the neutron star experiences runaway accretion, collapses into a black hole, which continues to accrete, and produces a pair of jets that bore their way out of the merged object. Observers who lie in the direction of either jet will see a gamma-ray burst. Roughly 1% of supernovae in massive binary systems result in neutron stars quickly becoming embedded in the secondaries, and of those which produce black holes, only 1% would be observable as gamma-ray bursts, if the jets are beamed into 1% of the sky.
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