Internal X-ray plateau in short GRBs: Signature of supramassive fast-rotating quark stars?

Abstract

A supramassive, strongly-magnetized millisecond neutron star (NS) has been proposed to be the candidate central engine of at least some short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), based on the "internal plateau" commonly observed in the early X-ray afterglow. While a previous analysis shows a qualitative consistency between this suggestion and the Swift SGRB data, the distribution of observed break time $t_b$ is much narrower than the distribution of the collapse time of supramassive NSs for the several NS equations-of-state (EoSs) investigated. In this paper, we study four recently-constructed "unified" NS EoSs, as well as three developed strange quark star (QS) EoSs within the new confinement density-dependent mass model. All the EoSs chosen here satisfy the recent observational constraints of the two massive pulsars whose masses are precisely measured. We construct sequences of rigidly rotating NS/QS configurations with increasing spinning frequency $f$, from non-rotating ($f=0$) to the Keplerian frequency ($f=f_{\mathrm{K}}$), and provide convenient analytical parametrizations of the results. Assuming that the cosmological NS-NS merger systems have the same mass distribution as the Galactic NS-NS systems, we demonstrate that all except the BCPM NS EoS can reproduce the current $22\%$ supramassive NS/QS fraction constraint as derived from the SGRB data. We simultaneously simulate the observed quantities (the break time $t_b$, the break time luminosity $L_b$ and the total energy in the electromagnetic channel $E_{\mathrm{total}}$) of SGRBs, and find that while equally well reproducing other observational constraints, QS EoSs predict a much narrower $t_b$ distribution than that of the NS EoSs, better matching the data. We therefore suggest that the post-merger product of NS-NS mergers might be fast-rotating supramassive QSs rather than NSs.

6 pages, 5 figures, 2 tables, Phys. Rev. D (2016) accepted

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