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GW170817离轴伽马射线暴的谱之谜

Spectral Puzzle of the Off-Axis Gamma-Ray Burst in GW170817

Kunihito Ioka, Takashi Nakamura

摘要:

在GW 170817中首次发现了来自两颗中子星(NS)合并的引力波,以及各种电磁波,为短伽马射线暴(sGRB)的起源提供了直接线索。相关的sGRB 170817 A比典型的要暗得多,表明来自相对论性喷流的离轴发射。然而,观察到的提示光谱是不一致的频谱(Amati)关系,并导致最简单的离轴模型的紧性问题。我们专注于这个光谱之谜,并提出一个可能的关键,离轴发射通常来自偏离中心的射流,既不是射流核心,也不是视线射流,如果射流结构是指数微弱的向外从观测推断。偏离中心的喷流可能装载有重子或茧。离轴模型预测,大致$\sim 10\%$事件在较小的视角下比sGRB 170817 A更亮,尽管确切的事件率敏感地取决于偏心结构的不确定性。该模型还预测了Amati关系的异常值,为未来揭示中心发动机活动提供了测试。

英文摘要:

Gravitational waves from a merger of two neutron stars (NSs) were discovered for the first time in GW170817, together with diverse electromagnetic counterparts, providing a direct clue to the origin of short gamma-ray bursts (sGRBs). The associated sGRB 170817A was much fainter than typical, suggesting off-axis emission from a relativistic jet. However the observed prompt spectrum is inconsistent with the spectral (Amati) relation and causes the compactness problem in the simplest off-axis model. We focus on this spectral puzzle and suggest a possible key that the off-axis emission generally comes from the off-center jet, neither the jet core nor the line-of-sight jet, if the jet structure is exponentially faint outward as inferred from observations. The off-center jet could be loaded with baryon or cocoon. The off-axis model predicts that roughly $\sim 10\%$ events are brighter at smaller viewing angles than sGRB 170817A, although the exact event rate sensitively depends on uncertainties of the off-center structure. The model also predicts outliers to Amati relation, providing future tests to reveal the central engine activities.

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