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arxiv: 1811.11146 · v1 · pith:YVABSQCCnew · submitted 2018-11-27 · 🌌 astro-ph.HE

Clumpy jets from black hole-massive star binaries as engines of Fast Radio Bursts

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keywords blackbinariesburstsclumpyfastfrbsholehole-massive
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We propose a new model of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) based on stellar mass black hole-massive star binaries. We argue that the inhomogeneity of the circumstellar materials or/and the time varying wind activities of the stellar companion will cause the black hole to accrete at a transient super-Eddington rate. The collision among the clumpy ejecta in the resulted jet could trigger plasma instability. As a result, the plasma in the jet will emit coherent curvature radiation. When the jet cone aims toward the observer, the apparent luminosity can be $10^{41}-10^{42}$\,erg/s. The duration of the resulted flare is $\sim$ millisecond. The high event rate of the observed non-repeating FRBs can be explained. A similar scenario in the vicinity of a supermassive black hole can be used to explain the interval distribution of the repeating source FRB121102 qualitatively.

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