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ASTROPHYSICAL JOURNAL
Volume 777, Issue 2, Pages -Publisher
IOP PUBLISHING LTD
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/777/2/113
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gamma-ray burst: general; radiative transfer; relativistic processes; scattering; shock waves; stars: Wolf-Rayet
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- Grants-in-Aid for Scientific Research [23224004] Funding Source: KAKEN
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We present theoretical expectations for non-thermal emission due to the bulk Comptonization at the ultra-relativistic shock breakout. We calculate the transfer of photons emitted from the shocked matter with a Monte Carlo code fully taking into account special relativity. As a hydrodynamical model, we use the self-similar solution of Nakayama and Shigeyama. Our calculations reveal that the spectral shape exhibits a double peak or a single peak depending on the shock temperature at breakout; if it is significantly smaller than the rest energy of an electron, the spectrum has a double peak. We also include a few sample light curves, and estimate the total radiation energy. In comparison with observations of gamma-ray bursts, a part of the higher energy component in the spectra and the total energy can be reproduced by some parameter sets. Meanwhile, the lower energy counterpart in the Band function is not reproduced by our results and the duration seems too short to represent an entire gamma-ray burst. Therefore the subsequent phase will constitute the lower energy part of the spectrum.
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