2009

Are all short-hard gamma-ray bursts produced from mergers of compact stellar objects?

Virgili, Francisco J., Zhang, Bing, O'Brien, Paul et al.

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The origin and progenitors of short-hard gamma-ray bursts remain a puzzle and a highly debated topic.

Recent Swift observations suggest that these GRBs may be related to catastrophic explosions in degenerate compact stars, denoted as "Type I" GRBs.
The most popular models include the merger of two compact stellar objects (NS-NS or NS-BH).
We utilize a Monte Carlo approach to determine whether a merger progenitor model can self-consistently account for all the observations of short-hard GRBs, including a sample with redshift measurements in the Swift era (z-known sample) and the CGRO/BATSE sample.

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