A POSSIBLE RADIO RELATION BETWEEN GRBS AND OLD NEARBY NEUTRON-STARS

Authors
KOMBERG BV KOMPANEETS DA
Citation
Bv. Komberg et Da. Kompaneets, A POSSIBLE RADIO RELATION BETWEEN GRBS AND OLD NEARBY NEUTRON-STARS, Astronomy reports, 41(5), 1997, pp. 611-616
Citations number
76
Categorie Soggetti
Astronomy & Astrophysics
Journal title
Astronomy reports → ACNP
ISSN journal
10637729
Volume
41
Issue
5
Year of publication
1997
Pages
611 - 616
Database
ISI
SICI code
1063-7729(1997)41:5<611:APRRBG>2.0.ZU;2-1
Abstract
It is proposed that cosmic gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are generated on ol d (t > 10(8) yr), nearby (within <100 pc) neutron stars when their sol id crusts crack as they readjust to the new equilibrium configurations as the neutron star rotation slows down. Such slowly rotating, old ne utron stars could be either faint long-period (p > 3 s) pulsars or wea kly modulated variable radio sources. To match the observed rate of GR Bs (-1 day(-1)) to the mean density of old neutron stars in the Galact ic disk (similar to 10(-3) pc(-3)), it is sufficient to assume that th e interval between bursts on a single neutron star is a few decades.