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MONTHLY NOTICES OF THE ROYAL ASTRONOMICAL SOCIETY
Volume 495, Issue 4, Pages 3780-3787Publisher
OXFORD UNIV PRESS
DOI: 10.1093/mnras/staa1454
Keywords
MHD; gamma-ray burst: general; stars: neutron
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- 'PHAROS', COST Action [CA16214]
- LOEWE-Program in HIC for FAIR
- ISF-NSFC joint research program [3296/19]
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The observations of GW170817/GRB170817A have confirmed that the coalescence of a neutron-star binary is the progenitor of a short gamma-ray burst (GRB). In the standard picture of a short GRB, a collimated highly relativistic outflow is launched after merger and it successfully breaks out from the surrounding ejected matter. Using initial conditions inspired from numerical-relativity binary neutron-star merger simulations, we have performed general-relativistic hydrodynamic (HD) and magnetohydrodynamic (MHD) simulations in which the jet is launched and propagates self-consistently. The complete set of simulations suggests that: (i) MHD jets have an intrinsic energy and velocity polar structure with a 'hollow core' subtending an angle theta(core) approximate to 4 degrees-5 degrees and an opening angle of theta(jet) > greater than or similar to 10 degrees; (ii) MHD jets eject significant amounts of matter and two orders of magnitude more than HD jets; (iii) the energy stratification in MHD jets naturally yields the power-law energy scaling E(> Gamma beta) proportional to (Gamma beta)(-4.5); (iv) MHD jets provide fits to the afterglow data from GRB170817A that are comparatively better than those of the HD jets and without free parameters; and (v) finally, both of the best-fitting HD/MHD models suggest an observation angle theta(obs) similar or equal to 21 degrees for GRB170817A.
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