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伽玛暴的绝热膨胀、早期X射线数据和中心引擎

Adiabatic expansion, early x-ray data and the central engine in GRBs

R. Barniol Duran, P. Kumar

摘要:

雨燕卫星早期的X射线数据显示,大多数伽马射线暴的光变曲线都有非常陡峭的衰减。这种衰减要么是由中央发动机活动的持续迅速下降产生的,要么是由中央发动机关闭后立即开始的一些剩余辐射产生的。后一种情况包括通过绝热膨胀冷却的“热”的发射,如果喷流角大于源洛伦兹因子的倒数,则大角度发射。在这项工作中,我们计算的时间和光谱特性的发射从这样的冷却的绝热膨胀,提供了一个新的处理的微观物理。我们利用p_{\perp} ^2/B(p_{\perp}是电子动量垂直于磁场B的分量)的绝热不变性来计算绝热膨胀过程中电子的洛伦兹因子;随着膨胀的发展,电子动量变得越来越与局部磁场一致。我们比较了理论预期的绝热膨胀(和大角度发射)与当前观测的早期X射线数据,发现只有约20%的107个爆发的样本可能与此模型一致。这使我们相信,对于大多数爆发,在X射线光变曲线的急剧衰减期间,中心引擎并没有完全关闭;因此,这个阶段是由中心引擎的持续快速衰减活动产生的。

英文摘要:

The Swift satellite early x-ray data shows a very steep decay in most of the Gamma-Ray Bursts light curves. This decay is either produced by the rapidly declining continuation of the central engine activity or by some left-over radiation starting right after the central engine shuts off. The latter scenario consists of the emission from an "ember" that cools via adiabatic expansion and, if the jet angle is larger than the inverse of the source Lorentz factor, the large angle emission. In this work, we calculate the temporal and spectral properties of the emission from such a cooling ember, providing a new treatment for the micro-physics of the adiabatic expansion. We use the adiabatic invariance of p_{\perp}^2/B (p_{\perp} is the component of the electrons' momentum normal to the magnetic field, B) to calculate the electrons' Lorentz factor during the adiabatic expansion; the electron momentum becomes more and more aligned with the local magnetic field as the expansion develops. We compare the theoretical expectations of the adiabatic expansion (and the large angle emission) with the current observations of the early x-ray data and find that only about 20% of our sample of 107 bursts is potentially consistent with this model. This leads us to believe that, for most bursts, the central engine does not turn off completely during the steep decay of the x-ray light curve; therefore, this phase is produced by the continued rapidly declining activity of the central engine.

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