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中子成分在长伽马射线暴喷流光球辐射中的作用

The Role of a Neutron Component in the Photospheric Emission of Long-Duration Gamma-Ray Burst Jets

Nathan Walker, Tyler Parsotan, Davide Lazzati

AI总结:

本文通过相对论流体动力学模拟与MCRaT辐射转移后处理,研究中子成分对长伽马射线暴喷流光球辐射的影响,发现其改变Band参数并提高总辐射能量。

摘要:

长持续时间伽马射线暴(LGRBs)被认为是在核心坍缩超新星期间产生的,其外流物质中可能含有显著的中子成分。如果中子存在,它们可以通过降低不透明度来改变光子在外流中的散射方式,从而使光子比没有中子时更早解耦。因此,理解这一过程的细节可以使我们探测原本隐藏的LGRB中心引擎。在这里,我们结合相对论流体动力学模拟和使用Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer(MCRaT)代码进行的辐射转移后处理,给出了LGRB喷流光球辐射的结果。我们通过改变平衡电子分数$Y_{e}$来控制喷流物质中中子成分的大小,并发现GRB火球中中子的存在会影响Band参数$\alpha$和$E_{0}$,而$\beta$参数的情况则不太清楚。特别是,拐折能量$E_{0}$向更高能量移动。此外,我们发现,增加中子成分的大小也会在多个观测视角上增加外流的总辐射能量。我们的结果不仅阐明了LGRBs,而且由于这类系统中很可能存在显著的中子成分,因此也与双中子星并合相关的短持续时间伽马射线暴有关。

英文摘要:

Long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs), thought to be produced during core-collapse supernovae, may have a prominent neutron component in the outflow material. If present, neutrons can change how photons scatter in the outflow by reducing its opacity, thereby allowing the photons to decouple sooner than if there were no neutrons present. Understanding the details of this process could therefore allow us to probe the central engine of LGRBs, which is otherwise hidden. Here, we present results of the photospheric emission from an LGRB jet, using a combination of relativistic hydrodynamic simulations and radiative transfer post-processing using the Monte Carlo Radiation Transfer (MCRaT) code. We control the size of the neutron component in the jet material by varying the equilibrium electron fraction $Y_{e}$, and we find that the presence of neutrons in the GRB fireball affects the Band parameters $α$ and $E_{0}$, while the picture with the $β$ parameter is less clear. In particular, the break energy $E_{0}$ is shifted to higher energies. Additionally, we find that increasing the size of the neutron component also increases the total radiated energy of the outflow across multiple viewing angles. Our results not only shed light on LGRBs, but are also relevant to short-duration gamma-ray bursts associated with binary neutron star mergers, due to the likelihood of a prominent neutron component in such systems.

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