Long-Lasting Black-Hole Jets in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

Shota Kisaka; Kunihito Ioka

doi:10.1088/2041-8205/804/1/L16

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Long-Lasting Black-Hole Jets in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

arXiv:1503.06791 · doi:10.1088/2041-8205/804/1/L16

Abstract

Whether a short gamma-ray burst (GRB) is caused by a black hole (BH) or a neutron star (NS) after the merger of a NS binary is a crucial problem. We propose a BH model that explains short GRBs with long-lasting activities such as extended emission and plateau emission up to $\sim 10000$ s. To extract the BH rotational energy, the topological evolution of the magnetic field should accompany the mass ejection, mass fallback, and magnetic field reconnection. The observations suggest the magnetic field decay from $\sim 1 0^{14}$ G to $\sim 1 0^{13} - 1 0^{11}$ G at the BH, bounded below by the pre-merger strength and kept constant while the luminosity is constant, and the fallback mass of $\sim 1 0^{- 4} - 1 0^{- 2} M_{⊙}$ , comparable to the ejecta mass implied by the macronova (or kilonova) in GRB 130603B. The BH model has implications for gravitational waves and the equation of state of NS matter.

7 pages, 4 figures. Accepted for publication in Astrophysical Journal Letters

Long-Lasting Black-Hole Jets in Short Gamma-Ray Bursts

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