A common envelope binary star origin of long gamma-ray bursts

Date

2011

Authors

Tout, Christopher A
Wickramasinghe, Dayal
Lau, Herbert H-B
Pringle, James
Ferrario, Lilia

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Blackwell Publishing Ltd

Abstract

The stellar origin of γ-ray bursts can be explained by the rapid release of energy in a highly collimated, extremely relativistic jet. This in turn appears to require a rapidly spinning highly magnetized stellar core that collapses into a magnetic neutro

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Keywords

Keywords: Binaries: close; Gamma-ray burst: general; Stars: neutron; White dwarfs

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Source

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

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Journal article

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Open Access

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