Conversion of neutron stars to strange stars as the central engine of gamma-ray bursts

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2000-01-27

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0001478v1

Astrophys.J. 530 (2000) L69

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

ApJ, 530, 2000 February 20, Lxxx (in press)

Scientific paper

10.1086/312497

We study the conversion of a neutron star to a strange star as a possible energy source for gamma-ray bursts. We use different recent models for the equation of state of neutron star matter and strange quark matter. We show that the total amount of energy liberated in the conversion is in the range of (1-4) 10^{53} ergs (one order of magnitude larger than previous estimates) and is in agreement with the energy required to power gamma-ray burst sources at cosmological distances.

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