Kauan D. Marquez, Débora P. Menezes

International Journal of Modern Physics: Conference Series

01/01/2017

Abstract

The phenomenon that originates gamma ray bursts (GRBs) remains undefined. In this work the conversion of a hadronic star into a quark star is discussed as one of the possible causes of GRBs. Effective models are used to describe the compact stars and to obtain their equations of state. Macroscopic properties, such baryonic and gravitational masses, of both types of stars are then obtained from the solution of the hydrostatic equilibrium equations. The relation between this values allows to calculate the amount of energy possibly released in this process. The obtained results are then compared to actual GRB observational data, and are within the observational order of magnitude.

10.1142/S2010194517600084