De Colle, Fabio 2011 伽马暴喷流的数值模拟

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Title:		Simulations of GRB Jets in a Stratified External Medium: Dynamics, Afterglow Lightcurves, Jet Breaks and Radio Calorimetry
Authors:		De Colle, Fabio; Ramirez-Ruiz, Enrico; Granot, Jonathan; Lopez-Camara, Diego
Publication:		eprint arXiv:1111.6667
Publication Date:		11/2011
Origin:		ARXIV
Keywords:		Astrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
Comment:		10 pages, 13 figures, submitted to ApJ
Bibliographic Code:		2011arXiv1111.6667D

Abstract

The dynamics of GRB jets during the afterglow phase is most reliably and accurately modelled using hydrodynamic simulations. All published simulations, however, have considered only a uniform external medium, while a stratified external medium is expected around long duration GRB progenitors. Here we present simulations of the dynamics of GRB jets and the resulting afterglow emission for both uniform and stratified external media with $\rho \propto r^{-k}$ for k = 0, 1, 2. The simulations are performed in 2D using the special relativistic version of the Mezcal code. The dynamics for stratified external media are broadly similar to those derived for expansion into a uniform external medium. The jet half-opening angle start increasing logarithmically with time once the Lorentz factor drops below 1/theta_0. For larger k values the lateral expansion is faster at early times and slower at late times with the jet expansion becoming Newtonian and slowly approaching spherical symmetry over progressively longer timescales. We find that contrary to analytic expectations, there is a reasonably sharp jet break in the lightcurve for k = 2 although the shape of the break is affected more by the viewing angle than by the slope of the external density profile. Steeper density profiles are found to produce more gradual jet breaks while larger viewing angles cause smoother and later appearing jet breaks. The counter-jet becomes visible as it becomes sub-relativistic, and for k=0 this results in a clear bump-like feature in the light curve. However, for larger k values the jet decelerates more gradually, causing only a mild flattening in the radio light curve that might be hard to discern when k=2. Late time radio calorimetry is likely to consistently over-estimate the true energy by up to a factor of a few for k=2, and either over-predict or under-predict it by a smaller factor for k = 0,1.

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