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Medientyp:
E-Artikel
Titel:
Inverse reconstruction of jet structure from off-axis gamma-ray burst afterglows
Beteiligte:
Takahashi, Kazuya;
Ioka, Kunihito
Erschienen:
Oxford University Press (OUP), 2020
Erschienen in:
Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 497 (2020) 1, Seite 1217-1235
Sprache:
Englisch
DOI:
10.1093/mnras/staa1984
ISSN:
0035-8711;
1365-2966
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ABSTRACT The gravitational wave event GW 170817 and the slowly rising afterglows of short gamma-ray burst (GRB) 170817A clearly suggest that the GRB jet has an angular structure. However the actual jet structure remains unclear as different authors give different structures. We formulate a novel method to inversely reconstruct the jet structure from off-axis GRB afterglows, without assuming any functional form of the structure in contrast to the previous studies. The jet structure is uniquely determined from the rising part of a light curve for a given parameter set by integrating an ordinary differential equation, which is derived from the standard theory of GRB afterglows. Applying to GRB 170817A, we discover that a non-trivial hollow-cone jet is consistent with the observed afterglows, as well as Gaussian and power-law jets within errors, which implies the Blandford–Znajek mechanism or ejecta–jet interaction. The current observations only constrain the jet core, not in principle the outer jet structure around the line of sight. More precise and high-cadence observations with our inversion method will fix the jet structure, providing a clue to the jet formation and propagation.