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Magnetospheric interactions of binary pulsars as a model for gamma ray bursts

arXiv:astro-ph/9609028 · doi:10.1086/310340

Abstract

I consider a model of GRBs where they arise right before the merging of binary pulsars. Binary pulsars moving through the companion's magnetic field experience a large, motional electric field , which leads to the release in the pulsar magnetosphere of a pair cascade, and the acceleration of a wind of pure pairs. The energy and energy deposition rate of the wind are those of --ray bursts, provided the pulsars have a field . Baryon contamination is small, and dominated by tidal heating, leading to , as required by the dirty fireball model of \Mesz, Laguna and Rees.

AP. J. Letters, in press; 11 pages, AASTEX

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