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Gamma-ray bursts from stellar mass accretion disks around black holes
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A cosmological model for gamma-ray bursts is explored in which the radiation is produced as a broadly beamed pair fireball along the rotation axis of an accreting black hole. The black hole may be a consequence of neutron star merger or neutron star-black hole merger, but for long complex bursts, it is more likely to come from the collapse of a single Wolf-Rayet star endowed with rotation ('failed' Type Ib supernova). The disk is geometrically thick and typically has a mass inside 100 km of several tenths of a solar mass. In the failed supernova case, the disk is fed for a longer period of time by the collapsing star. At its inner edge the disk is thick to its own neutrino emission and evolves on a viscous time scale of several seconds. In a region roughly 30 km across, interior to the accretion disk and along its axis of rotation, a pair fireball is generated by neutrino annihilation and electron-neutrino scattering which deposit approximately 10 exp 50 ergs/s.
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- Authors
- Woosley, S. E.
- Venue
- The Astrophysical Journal
- Publisher
- American Astronomical Society
- Published
- 1993-03
- Volume
- 405
- Pages
- 273
- ISSN
- 0004-637X (ISSN-L)
- 1538-4357
- OpenAlex
- W2035879704
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- References
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- FWCI
- 12.58
- Type
- journal article
- Language
- en
- Open access
- closed
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