Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2002-03-06
Mon.Not.Roy.Astron.Soc. 345 (2003) 575
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
17 pages, MNRAS, accepted. Contains new analysis of pressure-confined jets, of jets that experience oblique shocks or mix with
Scientific paper
10.1046/j.1365-8711.2003.06969.x
I constrain a possible supernova origin for gamma-ray bursts by modeling the dynamical interaction between a relativistic jet and a stellar envelope surrounding it. The delay in observer's time introduced by the jet traversing the envelope should not be long compared to the duration of gamma-ray emission; also, the jet should not be swallowed by a spherical explosion it powers. The only stellar progenitors that comfortably satisfy these constraints, if one assumes that jets move ballistically within their host stars, are compact carbon-oxygen or helium post-Wolf-Rayet stars (type Ic or Ib supernovae); type II supernovae are ruled out. Notably, very massive stars do not appear capable of producing the observed bursts at any redshift unless the stellar envelope is stripped prior to collapse. The presence of a dense stellar wind places an upper limit on the Lorentz factor of the jet in the internal shock model; however, this constraint may be evaded if the wind is swept forward by a photon precursor. Shock breakout and cocoon blowout are considered individually; neither presents a likely source of precursors for cosmological GRBs. These envelope constraints could conceivably be circumvented if jets are laterally pressure-confined while traversing the outer stellar envelope. If so, jets responsible for observed GRBs must either have been launched from a region several hundred kilometers wide, or have mixed with envelope material as they travel. A phase of pressure confinement and mixing would imprint correlations among jets that may explain observed GRB variability-luminosity and lag-luminosity correlations.
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