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Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and collisionless shocks Ehud Nakar Krakow Oct. 6, 2008 Gamma-Ray Bursts Flash of g-rays that last several seconds – the prompt emission NASA NASA web site long lasting decaying radiooptical-X-ray emission – the afterglow Fox et. al., 05 Longs & shorts Kouveliotou et al. 1993 ? Short GRBs Unknown – possibly NS-NS or BH-NS coalescence Long GRBs collapse of a massive star Prompt emission - observations (long GRBs) Duration 1-1000s 1052-1054 erg (isotropic equivalent) 1050-1052 erg/s (isotropic equivalent) ~0.01-2 MeV photons Non-thermal spectrum; very high energy tail (at least up to GeV) Rapid variability (less than 10ms) Prompt emission in the fireball model G>100 Inner Engine g-rays Relativistic Internal dissipation Wind (p-e- or p-e+-eor EM) 106cm 1013-1016cm Prompt emission - theory (long GRBs) The emission source is internal dissipation within a relativistic outflow, G>100! Radiation process – Unknown Leading candidates are synchrotron and IC Outflow composition and magnetization – Unknown Unmagentized pair plasma is unlikely Collisionless shocks ? – only if the outflow is baryonic mildly relativistic internal shocks Afterglow - Observations Peaks in X-ray first (minutes-hour) , then in optical (hours-days) and finally in radio (days-years) Fn B, V, R, I Temporal & spectral structure: Broken power law n t (days) Stanek et al. 99 Galama et al. 99 The internal-external fireball model g-rays Inner Engine Relativistic Internal dissipation Wind Afterglow External Shock (p-e- or p-e+-eor EM) 106cm 1013-1016cm 1016-1018cm External shock afterglow model Hydrodynamics: A relativistic blast-wave that propagates into a perfect fluid (shocked fluid energy concentrated in – DR ~ R/g2) g Shocked plasma pressure R/g2 upstream pressure •Blast wave decelerates while shoveling mass - gR-3/2 (for a constant external density). •The burst emission ionize and destruct dust in the circum-burst medium upstream is ionized, unmagnetized, p-e plasma. Radiation modeling: •Shock crossing electron acceleration N(g) g-p for g>gm • ee - fraction of electrons energy out of the internal energy at the shock crossing • eB - fraction magnetic field energy out of the internal energy at any time synchrotron + Synchrotron Self-Compton radiation The model fit for five free parameters: Ek, n, p, ee and eB The basic (slow cooling) Synchrotron Afterglow Spectrum and its time evolution: t0 t-3/2 t-1/2 Sari et al 1998 Synch self Absorption Observations Model Fn Low energy Fnn-1/3 Galama et al. 99 High Energy Fn n-p/2 n The typical parameters that fit the data ee ~ 0.1 eB ~ 0.01-0.001 p = 2-2.7 Ek,iso = 1052-1054 erg (Comparable to Eg,iso) n ~ 0.01-10 cm-3 (expected in ISM) Typical scales G~100 @ t=100s G~10 @ t=1 day G~2 @ t=1 month (t – observer time since the burst) shock Lorentz factor - B Downstream B Upstream Bd~ mG-G Bu~ mG (eB,up~10-9) Width of shocked plasma ~1012cm @ t=100s ~1016cm @ t=1week Skin depth ~107 cm Main microphysical assumptions in the basic model: • The shock is thin compared to the emitting region. • Electrons are coupled to the protons just through the shock. • All Electrons are accelerated – relaxing this assumption can change the best fit parameters by a factor f<mp/me (Eichler & Waxman 05) • ee and eB are constant in time and space – eB cannot drop significantly far in the downstream (Rossi & Rees 02) Afterglow observations strongly suggest that weakly magnetized relativistic collisionless shocks: •Generate magnetic field with ~10-4-10-2 of equipartition. •This magnetic field survives long after crossing the shock (>107 skin depths). •Polarization indicate that the magnetic field is anisotropic on large scales with ratio ~2:1 •Efficiently accelerate electrons (in equipartitoin with protons energy) at least up to TeV Note: External shock is the most popular and successful afterglow model. But, it is not the only model and it cannot explain all afterglow observations in all bursts. Short GRBs • Prompt emission is similar to long GRBs • About dozen observed afterglows (mostly in X-ray) suggest a similar mechanism and physical properties as in long GRB afterglows • The progenitor is an old stellar system and therefore the expected circum burst medium is the interstellar medium – unaffected by massive stellar wind. The ability of collisionless shocks to generate field an accelerate particles is not unique to upstream which is shaped by stellar wind (e.g., with high density clumps) Nakar 07 Magnetic field generation in GRB external shocks Equipartion field on a skin depth scale is thought to be generated in unmagnetized shocks by the Weibel instability (Moiseev & Sagdeev 63; Kazimura et al 98; Medvedev & Loeb 99, …) But … without sustaining process it is expected to decay over a similar scale (Gruzinov 01; Chang et al., 08) How can the shock generate strong magnetic field that survives over ~109 skin depths? Suggested processes: • Interaction of the thermal plasma (upstream and/or downstream) with accelerated particles via kinetic instabilities (e.g., recent numerical results by Keshet et al. 08 and Spitkovsky 08) • Amplification of the downstream field via downstream vorticity generated by • Density inhomogeneity in the upstream (e.g., Sironi & Goodman 07) • Angular energy anisotropy of decelerating blast wave (Milosavljevic, Nakar & Zhang 07) • Interaction between streaming protons and the upstream plasma via nonresonant streaming instability (e.g., Bell 2004, Milosavljevic & Nakar 06, Reville et al 06, …) Generation of upstream density inhomogeneies by streaming protons (Couch, Milosavljevic & Nakar 2008) ` assumption: protons are accelerated in the shock by Fermi process shock frame Upstream frame ~R/G2 ~R/G G e upstream p p e p upstream IC cooling grantee that if protons are accelerated to gp>103 then protons stream farther upstream then electrons • Nonresonant streaming instability amplifies the magnetic field and produces density inhomogeneities (e.g., Bell 04) • Even if the field is not amplified by orders of magnitude (e.g., Pelletier et al 08), density contrast of order unity is generated. Such contrast is enough in order to amplify the downstream field to the observed levels by generating downstream vorticity. • In GRB external shocks there is enough time to generate order unity density contrast even if the seed field is the pre-existing mG field Summary • GRB prompt emission may be a result of mildly relativistic collisionless shocks (if GRB jets are baryonic). • GRB external shocks are unmagnetized ultra-relativistic collisionless shocks and are the prime candidates to be the source of the observed afterglows, in which case these shocks: • Generate long lasting magnetic field to sub-equipartition level • Efficiently accelerate electrons at least to Tev energies • Several processes were suggested as the source of the generated magnetic field in these shocks. None of which is confirmed yet. Thank! Are all the electrons need to be accelerated? g dn/dg ee fee eB feB E E/f n n/f g If only a fraction me/mp<f<1 is accelerated the above mapping results in similar fit to f=1 (Eichler & Waxman 05). Can the magnetic field decay after the shock? No decay Decay after crossing 1% No decay Decay after crossing 1% A decay of the magnetic field after the plasma crosses much less than 1% of the shocked shell is hard to explain by the observations (Rossi & Rees 02)