OBSERVATIONAL SIGNATURES OF AN ELECTROMAGNETIC OVERCRITICAL GRAVITATIONAL COLLAPSE

DOI10.1142/S0218271805006146MaRDI QIDQ4680680zbMATH OpenWikidataFDO

Authors R. Ruffini, Federico Fraschetti, Luca Vitagliano, She-Sheng Xue

Publication date 7 June 2005

Published in International Journal of Modern Physics D (Search for Journal in Brave)

Full work available at URL https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0410233

zbMATH Keywords

gravitational collapseelectron-positron plasmagamma-ray burstsEMBH

Mathematics Subject Classification ID

Einstein-Maxwell equations (83C22) Space-time singularities, cosmic censorship, etc. (83C75)

Abstract: We present theoretical predictions for the spectral, temporal and intensity signatures of the electromagnetic radiation emitted during the process of the gravitational collapse of a stellar core to a black hole, during which electromagnetic field strengths rise over the critical value for $e^{+}{e}^{-}$ pair creation. The last phases of this gravitational collapse are studied, leading to the formation of a black hole with a subcritical electromagnetic field, likely with zero charge, and an outgoing pulse of initially optically thick $e^{+}{e}^{-}$-photon plasma. Such a pulse reaches transparency at Lorentz gamma factors of $10^2$--$10^4$. We find a clear signature in the outgoing electromagnetic signal, drifting from a soft to a hard spectrum, on very precise time-scales and with a very specific intensity modulation. The relevance of these theoretical results for the understanding of short gamma-ray bursts is outlined.

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