A common envelope binary star origin of long gamma-ray bursts
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2011
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Tout, Christopher A
Wickramasinghe, Dayal
Lau, Herbert H-B
Pringle, James
Ferrario, Lilia
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Blackwell Publishing Ltd
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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: Binaries: close; Gamma-ray burst: general; Stars: neutron; White dwarfs
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Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
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