A SUPRAMASSIVE MAGNETAR CENTRAL ENGINE FOR GRB 130603B
A SUPRAMASSIVE MAGNETAR CENTRAL ENGINE FOR GRB 130603B
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10.1088/2041-8205/779/2/l25
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2013-11
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Yizhong Fan;Yun-Wei Yu;Dong Xu;Z. Jin;Xuefeng Wu;D. Wei;Bing Zhang
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Yizhong Fan;Yun-Wei Yu;Dong Xu;Z. Jin;Xuefeng Wu;D. Wei;Bing Zhang
We show that the peculiar early optical emission and, in particular, the X-ray afterglow emission of the short-duration burst GRB 130603B can be explained by continuous energy injection into the blastwave from a supramassive magnetar central engine. The observed energetics and temporal/spectral properties of the late infrared bump (i.e., the “kilonova”) are also found to be consistent with emission from the ejecta launched during a neutron star (NS)–NS merger and powered by a magnetar central engine. The isotropic-equivalent kinetic energies of both the gamma-ray burst (GRB) blastwave and the kilonova are approximately Ek ∼ 1051 erg, consistent with being powered by a near-isotropic magnetar wind. However, this relatively small value requires that most of the initial rotational energy of the magnetar (∼a few × 1052 erg) is carried away by gravitational wave radiation. Our results suggest that (1) the progenitor of GRB 130603B was a NS–NS binary system, the merger product of which would have been a supramassive NS that lasted for about ∼1000 s; (2) the equation of state of the nuclear matter should be stiff enough to allow the survival of a long-lived supramassive NS; thus this suggested that the detection of the bright electromagnetic counterparts of gravitational wave triggers without short GRB associations is promising in the upcoming Advanced LIGO/VIRGO era.