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1994A&A...290..364R - Astronomy and Astrophysics, volume 290, 364-370 (1994/10-2)

On the origin of extragalactic γ-ray bursters.

ROLAND J., FROSSATI G. and TEYSSIER R.

Abstract (from CDS):

In the frame of the two-fluid model of extragalactic radio sources, the properties of extragalactic γ-ray bursters can be explained by the emission of a precessing relativistic e± beam whose bulk Lorentz factor is γb≃10. The γ-ray emission of the ejected e± component has a non-thermal origin and is due to the e± annihilations and the inverse Compton losses. Due to the relativistic motion of the e± component, its emission is strongly anisotropic. When several peaks are observed, the typical time scale between the peaks is of a few seconds and it corresponds to a perturbation period of the beam of about Po≃100s. This high frequency perturbation corresponds to the rotation frequency of a compact object turning at almost 3 Schwarzschild radii around a central black hole of mass 105M≤M≤106M. The rotating compact object perturbs the accretion disk around the black hole and the frozen magnetic field of the jet. It induces a precession of the beam and an e± component is ejected relativistically in the precessing beam producing a γ-ray emission which appears to be pulsating for the observer. Due to the rotation of the compact object the system emits gravitational waves together with the γ-ray emission. Finally, γ-ray bursters are associated with distant normal galaxies and after few months we expect an anisotropic radio emission whose flux density is Sν≤0.15mJy if the redshift of the galaxy is z≥0.2.

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Journal keyword(s): γ-ray bursts - radiation mechanism: non-thermal - galaxies: jets - galaxies: nuclei - γ-rays: theory

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