Structure and Luminosity of Neutrino-cooled Accretion Disks

Details Structure and Luminosity of Neutrino-cooled Accretion Disks Structure and Luminosity of Neutrino-cooled Accretion Disks

2007-02-07

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0702186v1

Astrophys.J.661:1025-1033,2007

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

32 pages, 13 figures, accepted by ApJ

Scientific paper

10.1086/513689

Neutrino-cooled hyperaccretion disks around stellar mass black holes are plausible candidates for the central engine of gamma-ray bursts. We calculate the one-dimensional structure and the annihilation luminosity of such disks. The neutrino optical depth is of crucial importance in determining the neutrino cooling rate and is in turn dependent on the electron fraction, the free nucleon fraction, and the electron degeneracy, with given density and temperature of the disk matter. We construct a bridging formula for the electron fraction that works for various neutrino optical depths, and give exact definitions for the free proton fraction and free neutron fraction. We show that the electron degeneracy has important effects in the sense that it enlarges the absorption optical depth for neutrinos, and it along with the neutronization processes favored by high temperature cause the electron fraction to drop to be below 0.1 in the inner region of the disk. The resulting neutrino annihilation luminosity is considerably reduced comparing with that obtained in previous works where the electron degeneracy was not considered and the electron fraction was simply taken to be 0.5, but it is still likely to be adequate for gamma-ray bursts, and it is ejected mainly from the inner region of the disk and has an anisotropic distribution.

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