RAPIDLY EVOLVING AND LUMINOUS TRANSIENTS DRIVEN BY NEWLY BORN NEUTRON STARS

Journal Article · Wed Jun 10 00:00:00 EDT 2015 · Astrophysical Journal Letters

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1088/2041-8205/806/1/L6· OSTI ID:22518964

Yu, Yun-Wei; Li, Shao-Ze ^[1]; Dai, Zi-Gao ^[2]

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1. Institute of Astrophysics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079 (China)
2. School of Astronomy and Space Science, Nanjing University, Nanjing 210093 (China)

We provide a general analysis on the properties of the emitting material of some rapidly evolving and luminous transients discovered recently with the Pan-STARRS1 Medium Deep Survey. It was found that these transients are probably produced by a low-mass non-relativistic outflow that is continuously powered by a newly born, rapidly spinning, and highly magnetized neutron star (NS). Such a system could originate from an accretion-induced collapse of a white dwarf or a merger of an NS–NS binary. Therefore, observations of these transients would be helpful for constraining white dwarf and NS physics and/or for searching and identifying gravitational wave signals from the mergers.

• OSTI ID: 22518964
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal Letters, Vol. 806, Issue 1; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 2041-8205
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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79 ASTROPHYSICS
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COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
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GRAVITATIONAL WAVES
MASS
NEUTRON STARS
RELATIVISTIC RANGE
STAR ACCRETION
SUPERNOVAE
TRANSIENTS
WHITE DWARF STARS