{
  "id": "1701.01184",
  "version": "v1",
  "published": "2017-01-05T00:03:42.000Z",
  "updated": "2017-01-05T00:03:42.000Z",
  "title": "High-energy emission as signature of magnetic field amplification in Neutron Star Mergers",
  "authors": [
    "Nissim Fraija",
    "William H. Lee",
    "Peter Veres",
    "Rodolfo Barniol Duran"
  ],
  "comment": "6 pages and 2 figures, revised version. To appear in the proceedings of the conference \"High-Energy Phenomena in Relativistic Outflows (HEPRO V)\", held in La Plata, Argentina (5-8 October 2015)",
  "categories": [
    "astro-ph.HE"
  ],
  "abstract": "The merger of a binary neutron star system is suggested as the central engine of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). For the merger process, simulations predict that magnetic field is amplified beyond magnetar field strength by Kelvin-Helmholtz instabilities. With the Large Area Telescope (LAT), bursts have been detected that show a temporally extended component in coincidence with a short-lasting peak at the end of the prompt phase. We show that the presence of these LAT components in a sGRB could provide evidence of magnetic field amplification in the neutron star merger.",
  "revisions": [
    {
      "version": "v1",
      "updated": "2017-01-05T00:03:42.000Z"
    }
  ],
  "analyses": {
    "keywords": [
      "magnetic field amplification",
      "neutron star merger",
      "high-energy emission",
      "binary neutron star system",
      "short gamma-ray bursts"
    ],
    "tags": [
      "conference paper"
    ],
    "note": {
      "typesetting": "TeX",
      "pages": 6,
      "language": "en",
      "license": "arXiv",
      "status": "editable"
    }
  }
}