Discovery of black hole spindown in the BATSE catalogue of long GRBs

Abstract

The BATSE catalogue is searched for evidence of spindown of black holes or proto-neutron stars (PNS) by extracting normalized light curves (nLC). The nLC are obtained by matched filtering, to suppress intermediate time scales such as due to the shock break-out of GRB jets through a remnant stellar envelope. We find consistency within a few percent of the nLC and the model template for spindown of an initially extremal black hole against high-density matter at the ISCO. The large BATSE size enables a study of the nLC as a function of durations $T_{90}$. The resulting ${\chi }_{red}^2$ is within a $2.35\sigma$ confidence interval for durations $T_{90}>20$ s, which compares favorably with the alternative of spindown against matter further out and spindown of a PNS, whose ${\chi }^2$ fits are, respectively, outside the 4$\sigma$ and 12$\sigma$ confidence intervals. We attribute spindown against matter at the ISCO to cooling by gravitational-wave emission from non-axisymmetric instabilities in the inner disk or torus as the result of a Hopf bifurcation in response to energetic input from the central black hole. This identification gives an attractive outlook for chirps in quasi-periodic gravitational waves lasting tens of seconds of interest to LIGO, Virgo and the LCGT.

27 pages, 10 figures, to appear in Progress of Theoretical Physics

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