Non-relativistic radiation mediated shock breakouts: I. Exact bolometric planar breakout solutions

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2011-03-25

arxiv.org/abs/1103.5075v1

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

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The problem of a non-steady planar radiation mediated shock (RMS) breaking out from a surface with a power-law density profile, \rho\propto x^n, is numerically solved in the approximation of diffusion with constant opacity. For an appropriate choice of time, length and energy scales, determined by the breakout opacity, velocity and density, the solution is universal, i.e. depends only on the density power law index n. The resulting luminosity depends weakly on the value of n. An approximate analytic solution, based on the self-similar hydrodynamic solutions and on the steady RMS solutions, is constructed and shown to agree with the numerical solutions as long as the shock is far from the surface, \tau>> c/v_{sh}. Approximate analytic expressions, calibrated based on the exact solutions, are provided, that describe the escaping luminosity as a function of time. These results can be used to calculate the bolometric properties of the bursts of radiation produced during supernova (SN) shock breakouts. For completeness, we also use the exact breakout solutions to provide an analytic approximation for the maximum surface temperature for fast (v_{sh}>~0.1) non-thermal breakouts, and show that it is few times smaller than inferred based on steady-state RMS solutions.

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