1995/08/20 by Tomasz Bulik, Donald Q. Lamb
Earth and Planetary Sciences · Physics and Astronomy · #Earth Systems and Cosmic Evolution #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Pulsars and Gravitational Waves Research #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1007/bf00658653
5 pages Latex file in revtex format. Five postscript figures come ina separate file. To appear in the Proceedings of the 1995 La Jolla Workshop "High Velocity Neutron Stars and Gamma-Ray Bursts", eds. R. Rorschild etal., AIP, New York
arxiv created 1995/08/20 · openalex publication_date 1995/09/01 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2019/06/27 · openalex updated_date 2026/07/28
We investigate the viability of the Galactic halo model of γ-ray bursts by calculating the spatial distribution of neutron stars born with high velocities in the Galactic disk, and comparing the resulting brightness and angular distribution with the BATSE data. We find that the Galactic halo model can reproduce the BATSE peak flux and angular distribution data for neutron star kick velocities \simgreat 800~\kms, source turn-on ages \simgreat 10~Myrs, and sampling depths 100\rm~kpc\simless dmax \simless 400~kpc.