Issue |
A&A
Volume 636, April 2020
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Article Number | A105 | |
Number of page(s) | 15 | |
Section | Astrophysical processes | |
DOI | https://doi.org/10.1051/0004-6361/201936335 | |
Published online | 27 April 2020 |
Gamma-ray burst jet propagation, development of angular structure, and the luminosity function⋆
1
INAF – Osservatorio Astronomico di Brera, via E. Bianchi 46, 23807 Merate, Italy
e-mail: om.salafia@inaf.it
2
Università degli Studi di Milano-Bicocca, Dip. di Fisica “G. Occhialini”, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano, Italy
3
INFN – Sezione di Milano-Bicocca, Piazza della Scienza 3, 20126 Milano, Italy
4
Gran Sasso Science Institute, viale F. Crispi 7, 67100 L’Aquila (AQ), Italy
5
Università degli Studi dell’Insubria, Via Valleggio 11, 22100 Como, Italy
Received:
17
July
2019
Accepted:
9
March
2020
The fate and observable properties of gamma-ray burst jets crucially depend on their interaction with the progenitor material that surrounds the central engine. We present a semi-analytical model of this interaction (which builds upon several previous analytical and numerical works) aimed at predicting the angular distribution of jet and cocoon energy and Lorentz factor after breakout given the properties of the ambient material and of the jet at launch. Using this model, we constructed synthetic populations of structured jets, assuming either a collapsar (for long gamma-ray bursts – LGRBs) or a binary neutron star merger (for short gamma-ray bursts – SGRBs) as progenitor. We assumed all progenitors to be identical, and we allowed little variability in the jet properties at launch: our populations therefore feature a quasi-universal structure. These populations are able to reproduce the main features of the observed LGRB and SGRB luminosity functions, although several uncertainties and caveats have yet to be addressed. We make our simulated populations publicly available.
Key words: gamma-ray burst: general / stars: neutron / relativistic processes
The results of this work are stored in a publicly available repository at the following url: https://github.com/omsharansalafia/jedi/
© ESO 2020
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