How pulses in short gamma-ray bursts constrain HMXRB evolution
Abstract
We demonstrate how pulse structures in Short gamma-ray bursts (SGRBs), coupled with observations of GRB/GW 170817A, constrain the geometries of dying HMXRB systems composed of merging neutron stars.
- Publication:
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High-mass X-ray Binaries: Illuminating the Passage from Massive Binaries to Merging Compact Objects
- Pub Date:
- December 2019
- DOI:
- 10.1017/S1743921318007603
- arXiv:
- arXiv:1906.00015
- Bibcode:
- 2019IAUS..346..459H
- Keywords:
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- X-rays: binaries;
- gamma rays: bursts;
- methods: data analysis;
- methods: statistical;
- Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
- E-Print:
- 5 pages, 8 figures