Short gamma-ray bursts from binary neutron star mergers in globular clusters

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作者
Grindlay, J
Zwart, SP
McMillan, S
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[1] Harvard Smithsonian Ctr Astrophys, Cambridge, MA 02138 USA
[2] Astron Inst Anton Pannekoek, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
[3] Sect Computat Sci Kruislaan 403, NL-1098 SJ Amsterdam, Netherlands
[4] Drexel Univ, Dept Phys, Philadelphia, PA 19104 USA
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美国国家航空航天局;
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10.1038/nphys214
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O4 [物理学];
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0702 ;
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Observations by the Swift gamma-ray-burst (GRB) mission located short GRBs in (or near) elliptical galaxies, that are no longer active in star formation. This suggested that short GRBs are produced when neutron stars (NSs) merge with other NSs or with black holes (BHs). However, the spatial offset of some short GRBs from their host galaxies is not consistent with double-neutron-star (DNS) systems formed from massive binary stars, which appear to remain in galactic disks. Instead, short GRBs may arise from NS mergers in compact binary systems that are naturally produced in globular clusters, in which extreme densities of very old stars can create and exchange compact binaries efficiently. Here we present a simple scaling from the DNS binary observed in the globular cluster M15 in our own Galaxy to the numbers expected for globular clusters around galaxies generally. We present numerical simulations that demonstrate that DNS production in globular clusters may account for similar to 10-30% of the observed short GRBs. The much more numerous DNS merger rates predicted for galactic disks suggests their associated short GRBs are significantly more beamed, perhaps by the aligned spins and greater magnetic field of their secondary NSs.
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