{
  "id": "1603.01950",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2016-03-07T06:06:29.000Z",
  "updated": "2016-03-07T06:06:29.000Z",
  "title": "Possible role of magnetic reconnection in the electromagnetic counterpart of binary black hole merger",
  "authors": [
    "F. Fraschetti"
  ],
  "comment": "3 pages; 1 figure. Comments welcome",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE",
    "astro-ph.CO",
    "gr-qc",
    "physics.plasm-ph"
  ],
  "abstract": "We propose a qualitative scenario to interpret the argued association between the recent direct measurement of the gravitational wave event GW150914 by LIGO-Virgo collaborations and the hard $X$-ray transient detected by Fermi-GBM $0.4$ sec after. In a binary system of two gravitationally collapsing objects with a non-vanishing electric charge, the compenetration of the two magnetospheres occurring during the coalescence, through turbulent magnetic reconnection, produces a highly collimated relativistic outflow that becomes optically thin and shines in the GBM field of view. We propose that this process should be expected as a commonplace in the future joint gravitational/electromagnetic detections.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2016-03-07T06:06:29.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "binary black hole merger",
      "electromagnetic counterpart",
      "gravitational wave event gw150914",
      "turbulent magnetic reconnection",
      "joint gravitational/electromagnetic detections"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 3,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable",
      "adsabs": "2016arXiv160301950F",
      "inspire": 1426477
    }
  }
}