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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 859, Issue 1, Pages -Publisher
IOP Publishing Ltd
DOI: 10.3847/1538-4357/aabcc1
Keywords
accretion, accretion disks; black hole physics; gamma-ray burst: general; stars: massive
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- NSF [AST-1616157]
- NASA [NNX17AK42G]
- Simons Foundation
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Ultra-long gamma-ray bursts (ULGRBs) are a distinct class of GRBs characterized by durations of several thousands of seconds, about two orders of magnitude longer than those of standard long GRBs (LGRBs). The driving engine of these events has not yet been uncovered, and ideas range from magnetars, to tidal disruption events, to extended massive stars, such as blue super giants (BSG). BSGs, a possible endpoint of stellar evolution, are attractive for the relatively long freefall times of their envelopes, allowing accretion to power a long-lasting central engine. At the same time, their large radial extension poses a challenge to the emergence of a jet. Here, we perform an end-to-end simulation aimed at assessing the viability of BSGs as ULGRB progenitors. The evolution to the core-collapse of a BSG star model is calculated with the MESA code. We then compute the accretion rate for the fraction of envelope material with enough angular momentum to circularize and form an accretion disk, and input the corresponding power into a jet, which we evolve through the star envelope with the FLASH code. Our simulation shows that the jet can emerge, and the resulting light curves resemble those observed in ULGRBs, with durations T-90 ranging from approximate to 4000 s to approximate to 10(4) s, depending on the viewing angle.
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