1. Short Gamma Ray Bursts as electromagnetic counterpart of coalescing binary systems
- Author
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Salvatore Capozziello, I. De Martino, M. De Laurentis, and Michelangelo Formisano
- Subjects
Physics ,Gravitational wave ,Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena ,Cosmic distance ladder ,Spectral density ,Binary number ,Astronomy and Astrophysics ,Astrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic Astrophysics ,Astrophysics ,Cosmology ,Black hole ,Neutron star ,Space and Planetary Science ,Gamma-ray burst ,Astrophysics::Galaxy Astrophysics - Abstract
Coalescing binary systems, consisting of two collapsed objects, are among the most promising sources of high frequency gravitational waves signals detectable, in principle, by ground-based interferometers. Binary systems of Neutron Star or Black Hole/Neutron Star mergers should also give rise to short Gamma Ray Bursts, a subclass of Gamma Ray Bursts. Short-hard-Gamma Ray Bursts might thus provide a powerful way to infer the merger rate of two-collapsed object binaries. Under the hypothesis that most short Gamma Ray Bursts originate from binaries of Neutron Star or Black Hole/Neutron Star mergers, we outline here the possibility to associate short Gamma Ray Bursts as electromagnetic counterpart of coalescing binary systems.
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- 2010