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伽马射线暴轻子和强子模型中高能辐射的延迟起始

Delayed Onset of High-Energy Emissions in Leptonic and Hadronic Models of Gamma-Ray Bursts

Katsuaki Asano, Peter Mészáros

摘要:

本文在轻子和强子模型下数值模拟了伽马射线暴瞬发辐射的时间谱演化。对于足够弱的磁场,轻子模型可以再现费米-LAT观测到的GeV光子发射开始的几秒钟延迟,这是由于逆康普顿散射的目标光子场的缓慢增长。然而,即使在更强的磁场中,GeV的延迟也可以用强子模型来解释,这是由于质子的加速时间尺度很长,并且在粒子注入结束后会持续产生质子。在单带轻子模型中,MeV和GeV光变曲线的半高宽几乎相同,而在强子模型中,1- 30 GeV光变曲线的半高宽明显大于0.1- 1 MeV光变曲线的半高宽。GeV延迟的量取决于Klein-Nishina效应在轻子和强子模型中的重要性。在我们的强子模型的例子中,逃逸中子的能量与伽马射线的能量相当,尽管它们对超高能宇宙射线的贡献仍然是次要的。由此产生的中微子光谱足够硬,以避免来自冰立方的通量限制约束。中微子发射开始的延迟比GeV光子发射开始的相应延迟长几倍。各种模型的光变曲线的定量差异可能会进一步测试与未来的大气切伦科夫望远镜,其有效面积大于费米-LAT,如CTA。

英文摘要:

The temporal--spectral evolution of the prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is simulated numerically for both leptonic and hadronic models. For weak enough magnetic fields, leptonic models can reproduce the few seconds delay of the onset of GeV photon emission observed by Fermi-LAT, due to the slow growth of the target photon field for inverse Compton scattering. However, even for stronger magnetic fields, the GeV delay can be explained with hadronic models, due to the long acceleration timescale of protons and the continuous photopion production after the end of the particle injection. While the FWHMs of the MeV and GeV lightcurves are almost the same in one-zone leptonic models, the FWHM of the 1--30 GeV lightcurves in hadronic models are significantly wider than those of the 0.1--1 MeV lightcurves. The amount of the GeV delay depends on the importance of the Klein--Nishina effect in both the leptonic and hadronic models. In our examples of hadronic models the energies of the escaped neutrons are comparable to the gamma-ray energy, although their contribution to the ultra high-energy cosmic rays is still subdominant. The resulting neutrino spectra are hard enough to avoid the flux limit constraint from IceCube. The delay of the neutrino emission onset is up to several times longer than the corresponding delay of the GeV photon emission onset. The quantitative differences in the lightcurves for various models may be further tested with future atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes whose effective area is larger than that of Fermi-LAT, such as CTA.

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