A POSSIBLE CONNECTION BETWEEN FAST RADIO BURSTS AND GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

By Bing Zhang. 2013

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The physical nature of fast radio bursts (FRBs), a new type of cosmological transient discovered recently, is not known. It has been suggested that FRBs can be produced when a spinning supra-massive neutron star loses centrifugal support and collapses to a black hole. Here, we suggest that such implosions can happen in supra-massive neutron stars shortly (hundreds to thousands of seconds) after their births, and an observational signature of such implosions may have been observed in the X-ray afterglows of some long and short gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Within this picture, a small fraction of FRBs would be physically connected to GRBs. We discuss possible multi-wavelength electromagnetic signals and gravitational wave signals that might be associated with FRBs, and propose an observational campaign to unveil the physical nature of FRBs. In particular, we strongly encourage a rapid radio follow-up observation of GRBs starting from 100 s after a GRB trigger.

Subfields: Astronomy and Astrophysics, Geophysics

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In Astronomy and Astrophysics

1. Bing Zhang
2. B. Metzger
3. E. Berger
4. Pawan Kumar
5. B. Margalit
6. P. Lasky
7. Xuefeng Wu
8. W. Lei

In Geophysics

1. Bing Zhang
2. P. Lasky
3. Pawan Kumar
4. V. Ravi
5. B. Metzger
6. B. Margalit
7. E. Berger

Citations in the corpus

• The birth of black holes: neutron star collapse times, gamma-ray bursts and fast radio bursts (2014, background): “A large fraction of any non-SGRB signatures of binary NS mergers that rely on a protomagnetar central engine (Gao et al. 2013; Zhang 2013) may have time-scales associated with the distribution of supramassive NS collapse times (Fig.”
• The physics of gamma-ray bursts & relativistic jets (2014, background): “A plausible scenario is that it is due to continuous energy injection from a magnetar wind [335,726], and the abrupt decay of flux at the end of plateau may be related to collapse of the magnetar to a black hole after it has lost enough angular momentum that it can no longer support itself against t”
• FAST RADIO BURSTS FROM THE INSPIRAL OF DOUBLE NEUTRON STARS (2016, background): “Fourth, the merger of double NSs after an FRB would leave behind a rapidly rotating BH (Paczýnski 1986; Eichler et al. 1989) or a millisecond pulsar/magnetar (Dai et al. 2006; Zhang 2013).”
• Fast Radio Bursts from Magnetars Born in Binary Neutron Star Mergers and Accretion Induced Collapse (2019, background): “It was proposed that during the final stages of a BNS merger inspiral the interaction between the NS magnetospheres could give rise to a single (non-repeating) FRB (Hansen & Lyutikov 2001; Totani 2013; Zhang 2014; Metzger & Zivancev 2016; Wang et al. 2016).”
• THE MILLISECOND MAGNETAR CENTRAL ENGINE IN SHORT GRBs (2015, background): “…radiation even if the short GRB jet does not beam towards earth, so that some interesting observational signatures are expected to be associated with gravitational wave signals in the Advanced LIGO/Virgo era (Zhang 2013; Gao et al. 2013; Yu et al. 2013; Fan et al. 2013b; Metzger & Piro 2014).”
• A living theory catalogue for fast radio bursts (2018, background): “…and Eichler, 2018; Wei et al., 2018), extragalactic magnetic fields (Vazza et al., 2018), properties of the intergalactic medium (IGM) (Deng and Zhang, 2014; Zheng et al., 2014; Macquart et al., 2015; Akahori et al., 2016; Fujita et al., 2017; Shull and Danforth, 2018; Ravi, 2018), dark matter…”