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Signatures of magnetar central engines in short GRB light curves

A. RowlinsonAstronomical Institute 'Anton Pannekoek', University of Amsterdam, Postbus 94249, NL-1090P. T. O’BrienDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UKBrian D. MetzgerDepartment of Astrophysical Sciences, Peyton Hall, Princeton University, Princeton, NJ 08544, USAN. R. TanvirDepartment of Physics & Astronomy, University of Leicester, University Road, Leicester LE1 7RH, UKA. J. LevanDepartment of Physics, University of Warwick, Coventry CV4 7AL, UK

2013en

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A significant fraction of the long gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) in the Swift sample have a plateau phase showing evidence of ongoing energy injection. We suggest that many short gammaray bursts (SGRBs) detected by the Swift satellite also show evidence of energy injection. Explaining this observation within the typical SGRB progenitor model is challenging as late time accretion, often used to explain plateaus in LGRBs, is likely to be absent from the SGRB population. Alternatively, it is predicted that the remnant of neutron star-neutron star mergers may not collapse immediately to a black hole (or even collapse at all), forming instead an unstable millisecond pulsar (magnetar) which powers a plateau phase in the X-ray light curve.

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DOI: 10.1093/mnras/sts683

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