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Gamma-ray burst jets: uniform or structured? | | O. S. Salafia
; A. Pescalli
; F. Nappo
; G. Ghisellini
; G. Ghirlanda
; R. Salvaterra
; G. Tagliaferri
; | | Date: |
3 Mar 2015 | | Abstract: | The structure of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) jets impacts on their prompt and
afterglow emission properties. Insights into the still unknown structure of
GRBs can be achieved by studying how different structures impact on the
luminosity function (LF): i) we show that low ($10^{46} < L_{
m iso} <
10^{48}$ erg/s) and high (i.e. with $L_{
m iso} > 10^{50}$ erg/s) luminosity
GRBs can be described by a unique LF; ii) we find that a uniform jet (seen on-
and off-axis) as well as a very steep structured jet (i.e. $epsilon( heta)
propto heta^{-s}$ with $s > 4$) can reproduce the current LF data; iii)
taking into account the emission from the whole jet (i.e. including
contributions from mildly relativistic, off-axis jet elements) we find that
$E_{
m iso}( heta_{
m v})$ (we dub this quantity "apparent structure") can
be very different from the intrinsic structure $epsilon( heta)$: in
particular, a jet with a Gaussian intrinsic structure has an apparent structure
which is more similar to a power law. This opens a new viewpoint on the
quasi-universal structured jet hypothesis. | | Source: | arXiv, 1503.1131 | | Services: | Forum | Review | PDF | Favorites | |
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