In this contribution I review the mechanism proposed earlier for producing a gamma-ray burst from the rapidly spinning neutron star in an X-ray binary (Spruit 1999), with a discussion of some more recent developments and outstanding issues.
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Spruit, H. (2007). Gamma-ray Bursts from X-ray Binaries. In: Aschenbach, B., Burwitz, V., Hasinger, G., Leibundgut, B. (eds) Relativistic Astrophysics Legacy and Cosmology – Einstein’s. ESO Astrophysics Symposia. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-540-74713-0_93
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