Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2000-11-08
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
9 pages, 6 figures, submitted to A&A
Scientific paper
Recently much work in Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) studies was devoted to revealing the nature of outburst mechanism and to looking for GRB progenitors. Several types of progenitors were proposed for GRBs. Most promising objects are collapsars, compact object binaries, Helium star mergers and recently discussed supernovae. In this paper we consider four proposed binary star progenitors of GRBs: double neutron star (NS-NS), black hole neutron star (BH-NS), black hole white dwarf (BH-WD) mergers and Helium star mergers (He-BH). Helium star mergers are a possible outcome of common envelope evolution of a compact object entering the envelope of a giant with a helium core. Using population synthesis we calculate number of the binary progenitors and show that BH-WD and Helium star mergers dominate population of the proposed binary progenitors. Comparison of distribution of different binary mergers around galaxies they are born in, with localization of GRB afterglows in their host galaxies shows that only Helium mergers may be responsible for GRBs with observed afterglows while it excludes NS-NS, BH-NS and BH-WD systems as GRB progenitors. Assuming that all GRBs come from Helium star mergers and comparing numbers of Helium star mergers with observed BATSE GRB rate let us derive upper limit on GRB collimation to be 4 degrees.
Belczynski Krzysztof
Bulik Tomasz
Rudak Bronislaw
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