Neutrino trapping and accretion models for Gamma-Ray Bursts

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2002-07-15

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0207319v2

Astrophys.J.579:706-715,2002

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

23 pages, added reference, corrected typo and bremsstrahlung formula

Scientific paper

10.1086/342832

Many models of Gamma Ray Bursts invoke a central engine consisting of a black hole of a few solar masses accreting matter from a disk at a rate of a fraction to a few solar masses per second. Popham et al. and Narayan et al. have shown that, for Mdot >~ 0.1 Msun/s, accretion proceeds via neutrino cooling and neutrinos can carry away a significant amount of energy from the inner regions of the disks. We improve on these calculations by including a simple prescription for neutrino transfer and neutrino opacities in such regions. We find that the flows become optically thick to neutrinos inside a radius R~6-40R_s for Mdot in the range of 0.1 -10 Msun/s, where R_s is the black hole Schwarzchild radius. Most of the neutrino emission comes from outside this region and, the neutrino luminosity stays roughly constant at a value L_{\nu} ~ 10^{53} erg/s. We show that, for Mdot > 1 Msun/s, neutrinos are sufficiently trapped that energy advection becomes the dominant cooling mechanism in the flow. These results imply that neutrino annihilation in hyperaccreting black holes is an inefficient mechanism for liberating large amounts of energy. Extraction of rotational energy by magnetic processes remains the most viable mechanism.

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