Takami 2013 High-Energy Radiation from Remnants of Neutron Star Binary Mergers

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Title:		High-Energy Radiation from Remnants of Neutron Star Binary Mergers
Authors:		Takami, Hajime; Kyutoku, Koutarou; Ioka, Kunihito
Publication:		eprint arXiv:1307.6805
Publication Date:		07/2013
Origin:		ARXIV
Keywords:		Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Comment:		14 pages, 5 figures
Bibliographic Code:		2013arXiv1307.6805T

Abstract

We study high-energy emission from the mergers of neutron star binaries as electromagnetic counterparts to gravitational waves aside from short gamma-ray bursts. The mergers entail significant mass ejection, which interacts with the surrounding medium to produce similar but brighter remnants than supernova remnants in a few years. We show that electrons accelerated in the remnants can produce synchrotron radiation in X-rays detectable at $\sim 100$ Mpc by current generation telescopes and inverse Compton emission in gamma rays detectable by the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescopes and the Cherenkov Telescope Array under favorable conditions. The remnants may have already appeared in high-energy surveys such as the Monitor of All-sky X-ray Image and the \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope as unidentified sources. We also suggest that the merger remnants could be the origin of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays beyond the knee energy, $\sim 10^{15}$ eV, in the cosmic-ray spectrum.

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