{
  "id": "0907.1801",
  "version": "v3",
  "published": "2009-07-10T16:28:24.000Z",
  "updated": "2010-01-07T13:47:11.000Z",
  "title": "A search for pulsations from the compact object of GRB 060218",
  "authors": [
    "N. Mirabal",
    "E. V. Gotthelf"
  ],
  "comment": "4 pages, 3 figures. Revised version, accepted for publication in Astronomy and Astrophysics",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "A fraction of massive stars are expected to collapse into compact objects (accreting black holes or rapidly rotating neutron stars) that successfully produce gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). We examine the possibility of directly observing these gamma-ray burst compact objects (GCOs) using post-explosion observations of past and future GRB sites. In particular, we present a search for early pulsations from the nearby (z=0.0335) gamma-ray burst GRB 060218, which exhibited features possibly consistent with a rapidly spinning neutron star as its underlying GCO. We also consider alternative techniques that could potentially achieve a detection of GCOs either in the Local Volume or near the plane of our own Galaxy.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v3",
      "updated": "2010-01-07T13:47:11.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "pulsations",
      "gamma-ray burst compact objects",
      "gamma-ray burst grb",
      "successfully produce gamma-ray bursts",
      "accreting black holes"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "journal article"
    ],
    "publication": {
      "doi": "10.1051/0004-6361/200912779",
      "journal": "Astronomy and Astrophysics",
      "year": 2010,
      "month": "Feb",
      "volume": 511
    },
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 4,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "inspire": 825415,
      "adsabs": "2010A&A...511A..65M"
    }
  }
}