# Charged Compact Binary Coalescence Signal and Electromagnetic Counterpart of Plunging BH-NS mergers

## TL;DR

This paper introduces the concept of charged Compact Binary Coalescence (cCBC) signals, theorizes their generation during charged mergers, especially NS-BH systems, and discusses their potential electromagnetic counterparts and observable signatures.

## Contribution

It develops a general theory of cCBC signals for any mass and charge, highlighting their occurrence in NS mergers and potential observability.

## Key findings

- cCBC signals can produce electromagnetic counterparts with significant luminosity.
- NSs as spinning magnets are guaranteed to produce cCBC signals during mergers.
- cCBC signals are especially clean and detectable in BH-NS mergers with small mass ratios.

## Abstract

If at least one of the members of a compact binary coalescence is charged, the inspiral of the two members would generate a Poynting flux with an increasing power, giving rise to a brief electromagnetic counterpart temporally associated with the chirp signal of the merger (with possibly a small temporal offset), which we term as the {\em charged Compact Binary Coalescence} (cCBC) signal. We develop a general theory of cCBC for any mass and amount of charge for each member. Neutron stars (NSs), as spinning magnets, are guaranteed to be charged, so the cCBC signal should accompany all neutron star mergers. The cCBC signal is clean in a BH-NS merger with a small mass ratio ($q \equiv m_2/m_1 < 0.2$), in which the NS plunges into the BH as a whole, and its luminosity/energy can reach that of a fast radio burst if the NS is Crab-like. The strength of the cCBC signal in Extreme Mass Ratio Inspiral Systems (EMRIs) is also estimated.