E. Waxman and P. Mészáros 2003 ApJ 584 390 doi:10.1086/345536
E. Waxman1 and P. Mészáros2
Show affiliationsWe show that the collapsar model of gamma-ray bursts results in a series of successive shocks and rarefaction waves propagating in the "cork" of stellar material being pushed ahead of the jet, as it emerges from the massive stellar progenitor. Our results are derived from analytical calculations assuming a hot, ultrarelativistic one-dimensional flow with an initial Lorentz factor Γj ~ 100. The shocks result in a series of characteristic, increasingly shorter and harder thermal X-ray pulses, as well as a nonthermal γ-ray pulse, which precede the usual nonthermal MeV γ-rays. We consider jets escaping from both compact (CO or He dwarf) and blue supergiant stellar progenitors. The period, fluence, and hardness of the pulses serves as a diagnostic for the size and density of the outer envelope of the progenitor star.
gamma rays: bursts; gamma rays: theory; supernovae: general; X-rays: bursts
Issue 1 (2003 February 10)
Received 2002 June 22, accepted for publication 2002 October 14
E. Waxman and P. Mészáros 2003 ApJ 584 390
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