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中子星双星合并的命运

The Fate of Neutron Star Binary Mergers

Anthony L. Piro, Bruno Giacomazzo, Rosalba Perna

摘要:

在合并之后,中子星(NS)双星可以产生大致三种不同的结果之一:(1)稳定的NS,(2)黑洞(BH),或(3)超大质量,旋转支撑的NS,然后在角动量损失后坍缩为BH。这些命运中的哪一个发生以及以什么比例发生,对于与合并相关的电磁瞬变和预期的引力波签名具有重要意义,这反过来又取决于高密度状态方程(EOS)。在这里,我们结合相对论计算NS质量使用现实的EOSs与蒙特卡罗人口合成的基础上NS二进制在我们的银河系的质量分布预测的命运预期的分布。对于许多EOS来说,很大一部分残留物是NS或超大质量NS。这为快速旋转、高度磁化的NS可能为电磁瞬变供电的场景提供了支持。这也预示着未来的引力波(GW)观测站将重点放在高频率上来研究合并后的GW发射将是重要的。即使在个别GW事件的信噪比太低而无法详细研究合并后签名的情况下,有多少合并产生NS与BH的统计数据也可以与我们的工作进行比较,以限制EOS。为了匹配短伽马射线暴(SGRB)的X射线余辉统计,我们发现,最僵硬的EOS被排除在外。此外,许多流行的EOS要求~60-70%的SGRB来自NS-BH合并,而不仅仅是二进制NS。

英文摘要:

Following merger, a neutron star (NS) binary can produce roughly one of three different outcomes: (1) a stable NS, (2) a black hole (BH), or (3) a supra-massive, rotationally-supported NS, which then collapses to a BH following angular momentum losses. Which of these fates occur and in what proportion has important implications for the electromagnetic transient associated with the mergers and the expected gravitational wave signatures, which in turn depend on the high density equation of state (EOS). Here we combine relativistic calculations of NS masses using realistic EOSs with Monte Carlo population synthesis based on the mass distribution of NS binaries in our Galaxy to predict the distribution of fates expected. For many EOSs, a significant fraction of the remnants are NSs or supra-massive NSs. This lends support to scenarios where a quickly spinning, highly magnetized NS may be powering an electromagnetic transient. This also indicates that it will be important for future gravitational wave (GW) observatories to focus on high frequencies to study the post merger GW emission. Even in cases where individual GW events are too low in signal to noise to study the post merger signature in detail, the statistics of how many mergers produce NSs versus BHs can be compared with our work to constrain the EOS. To match short gamma-ray burst (SGRB) X-ray afterglow statistics, we find that the stiffest EOSs are ruled out. Furthermore, many popular EOSs require ~60-70% of SGRBs to be from NS-BH mergers rather than just binary NSs.

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