arXivDaily arXiv每日学术速递 周一至周五更新
arXiv 1001.1815astro-ph.CO
收藏

GRB余辉共振散射连续光子的Lyman $α$发射

On the formation of Lyman $α$ emission from resonantly scattered continuum photons of GRB's afterglow

Wen Xu, Xiang-Ping Wu

摘要:

本文研究了在伽玛暴连续光学余辉背景下共振散射莱曼$α$光子谱印的形成和演化。基于一个解析模型和一个完整的处理的所有散射使用蒙特卡罗模拟,我们发现,的Ly $α$发射的流量主要是由光子散射一次。相对于透射连续谱的未衰减最大通量,通量的量级为$10^{-4}$至$10^{-9}$,使得该特征可以忽略,但可能是可观察的。如果没有被宿主星系的DLA或星系际中性氢所遮蔽,当直接透射的光消失后,散射辐射特征可能在1小时到数年的某个时间出现,这种散射辐射特征可以通过其光度演化和轮廓随时间逐渐变窄的特征与其他来源的Ly $α$光子相区别。光谱变化的典型时间尺度是接近伽玛暴的氢团的光穿越时间。

英文摘要:

We study the formation and evolution of the spectral imprint of resonantly scattered Lyman $α$ photons in the context of GRB's continuum optical afterglow. Based on an analytic model and a complete treatment of all the scatterings using Monte Carlo simulations, we found that the flux of the Ly$α$ emission is mainly contributed by photons which are scattered only once. The flux is of order $10^{-4}$ to $10^{-9}$ relative to the undecayed maximum flux of the transmitted continuum, making the feature negligible but potentially observable. If not obscured by host galaxy's DLA or intergalactic neutral hydrogen, the feature may appear sometime from one hour to several years when the directly transmitted light has faded away.This scattered emission feature can be distinguished from Ly$α$ photons of other origins by its luminosity evolution, and by its gradual narrowing of profile with time. The typical time scale for spectral variance is that of the light crossing time of a hydrogen clump close to the GRB.

机构、总结、中文摘要均由AI分析而来,可能存在错误,请以论文正文为准。

↑