Posted by Astroman on September 17, 192002 at 08:47:08:
In Reply to: Re: grbs posted by petes on September 13, 192002 at 17:34:32:
You're welcome for the response, Pete s. If it takes longer for me to respond, it's because I don't check this board as often as I do the new one: http://killdevilhill.com/astronomychat/wwwboard.html
The collision of two neutron stars was one of the theories for the generation of GRBs as recently as last year, but has since been eliminated as having insufficient initial m to energy conversion. It would still cause a heck of an explosion, but not enough to "make" energy on the order a GRB. (This info was ped on to myself and other by Dr. Chip Meegan at the Second High Energy Astrophysics Workshop for Astronomers, held in Waikaloa Hawai'i in July, 2002.) It follows that neutrinos, even if they do interact and indeed are deflected by dense material in neutron stars, would be insufficient to be the cause. It's an interesting idea though, that neutron stars may deflect gamma rays from a GRB event and using that as a measuring stick to the neutron star.