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astro-ph.SR2010★ 28 cited
V605 Aquilae: a born again star, a nova or both?
Herbert. H. B. Lau, Orsola De Marco, X. W. Liu
V605 Aquilae is today widely assumed to have been the result of a final helium shell flash occurring on a single post-asymptotic giant branch star. The fact that the outbursting st…
astro-ph.SR2010★ 17 cited
A Common Envelope Binary Star Origin of Long Gamma-ray Bursts
Christopher A. Tout, Dayal T. Wickramasinghe, Herbert H. -B. Lau +2
The stellar origin of gamma-ray bursts can be explained by the rapid release of energy in a highly collimated, extremely relativistic jet. This in turn appears to require a rapidly…