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伽马射线暴余辉偏振的数值模拟

Numerical simulations of polarisation in gamma-ray burst afterglows

Rogelio Medina Covarrubias, Fabio De Colle, Gerardo Urrutia, Felipe Vargas

AI总结:

本文通过相对论喷流减速数值模拟及后处理,研究轴上与离轴伽马射线暴余辉线偏振,发现侧向膨胀使离轴偏振呈单峰,并由GRB 170817A约束磁场各向异性。

摘要:

我们计算了伽马射线暴余辉阶段的线偏振,涵盖轴上观测者和离轴观测者两种情形。我们采用相对论性喷流减速的数值模拟,并通过对数值模拟结果进行后处理来计算偏振。在模拟中,除了一个平行于激波速度的磁场分量外,我们还考虑了一个在激波面内混沌无序的磁场。虽然为轴上观测者计算得到的线偏振与以往的解析估计相符,但我们发现,在我们的模拟中得到精确处理的侧向膨胀,对决定离轴观测者所见的线偏振起着关键作用。结果表明,离轴观测者看到的离轴线偏振呈现单个峰值,这与以往解析研究推断出的两个峰值形成对比。最大偏振度在观测角θ_obs=0.4 rad时为40%,并随观测角增大而减小,这与解析模型预测的偏振随观测角增大而升高相反。根据GRB 170817A在244天时获得的12%线偏振上限,我们还推断出各向异性因子B_parallel/B_perpendicular=0.5-0.9,这与激波后磁场经湍流放大的情形相一致。

英文摘要:

We compute the linear polarisation during the afterglow phase of gamma-ray bursts, for both on-axis and off-axis observers. We use numerical simulations of the deceleration of a relativistic jet, and compute the polarisation by post-processing the results of the numerical simulations. In our simulations, we consider a magnetic field that is chaotic in the plane of the shock, in addition to a magnetic field component that is parallel to the shock velocity. While the linear polarisation computed for on-axis observers is consistent with previous analytical estimates, we found that lateral expansion, which is accurately handled in our simulations, plays a crucial role in determining the linear polarisation for off-axis observers. Our results show that the off-axis linear polarisation, as seen by off-axis observers, exhibits a single peak, in contrast to the two peaks inferred by previous analytical studies. The maximum polarisation degree is 40\% at an observing angle $θ_{\rm obs}=0.4$ rad, and it decreases as the observing angle increases, which is opposite to what predicted by analytical models, where polarisation increases with larger observing angles. From the upper limit of 12\% in the linear polarisation obtained at 244 days for the GRB 170817A, we also infer an anisotropy factor of $B_\parallel/B_\perp = 0.5-0.9$, consistent with the post-shock magnetic field being amplified by turbulence.

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