Recycling of neutron stars in common envelopes and hypernova explosions
Recycling of neutron stars in common envelopes and hypernova explosions
In this paper, we propose a new plausible mechanism of supernova explosions specific to close binary systems. The starting point is the common envelope phase in the evolution of a binary consisting of a red supergiant and a neutron star. As the neutron star spirals towards the centre of its …