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Hyper-Eddington accretion in GRB

  • A. Janiuk
  • , B. Czerny
  • , R. Perna
  • , T. Di Matteo

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Abstract

Popular models of the GRB origin associate this event with a cosmic explosion, birth of a stellar mass black hole and jet ejection. Due to the shock collisions that happen in the jet, the gamma rays are produced and we detect a burst of duration up to several tens of seconds. This burst duration is determined by the lifetime of the central engine, which may be different in various scenarios. Characteristically, the observed bursts have a bimodal distribution and constitute the two classes: short (t < 2s) and long bursts. Theoretical models invoke the mergers of two neutron stars or a neutron star with a black hole, or, on the other hand, a massive star explosion (collapsar). In any of these models we have a phase of disc accretion onto a newly born black hole: the disc is formed from the disrupted neutron star or fed by the material fallback from the ejected collapsar envelope. The disc is extremely hot and dense, and the accretion rate is orders of magnitude higher than the Eddington rate. In such physical conditions the main cooling mechanism is neutrino emission, and one of possible ways of energy extraction from the accretion disc is the neutrino-antineutrino annihilation.

Original languageEnglish
Pages (from-to)419-422
Number of pages4
JournalNuovo Cimento della Societa Italiana di Fisica C
Volume28
Issue number3
DOIs
StatePublished - 2005

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