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2018ApJ...868...17A - Astrophys. J., 868, 17-17 (2018/November-3)

Collisions of neutron stars with primordial black holes as fast radio bursts engines.

ABRAMOWICZ M.A., BEJGER M. and WIELGUS M.

Abstract (from CDS):

If primordial black holes (PBH) with masses of 1025g≳m≳1017g constitute a non-negligible fraction of galactic dark-matter halos, their existence should have observable consequences: they necessarily collide with galactic neutron stars (NS), nest in their centers, and accrete the dense matter, eventually converting them to NS-mass black holes while releasing the NS magnetic field energy. Such processes may explain the fast radio bursts (FRB) phenomenology, in particular their millisecond durations, large luminosities ∼1043 erg s–1, high rate of occurrence ≳1000day–1, as well as high brightness temperatures, polarized emission, and Faraday rotation. Longer than the dynamical timescale of the Bondi-like accretion for light PBH allows for the repeating of FRB. This explanation follows naturally from the (assumed) existence of the dark-matter PBH and requires no additional unusual phenomena, in particular no unacceptably large magnetic fields of NS. In our model, the observed rate of FRB throughout the universe follows from the presently known number of NS in the Galaxy.

Abstract Copyright: © 2018. The American Astronomical Society. All rights reserved.

Journal keyword(s): black hole physics - dark matter - stars: neutron

Simbad objects: 3

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