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CHINESE JOURNAL OF ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
Volume 6, Issue 5, Pages 513-516Publisher
SCIENCE PRESS
DOI: 10.1088/1009-9271/6/5/01
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gamma-rays : bursts; radiation mechanisms : nonthermal; magnetic fields; stars : neutron; stars : rotation
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We suggest a short-lived supermassive magnetar model to account for the X-ray flares following short gamma-ray bursts. In this model the central engine of the short gamma-ray bursts is a supermassive millisecond magnetar, formed in coalescence of double neutron stars. The X-ray flares are powered by the dipole radiation of the magnetar. When the magnetar has lost a significant part of its angular momentum, it collapses to a black hole and the X-ray flares cease abruptly.
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