Long-term continuous energy injection in the afterglow of GRB 060729

	Long-term continuous energy injection in the afterglow of GRB 060729
	Xu, Ming 1; Huang, Yong-Feng 1; Lu, Tan2
刊名	RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS
	2009-12-01
卷号	9 期号:12 页码:1317-1323
关键词	gamma rays: bursts ISM: jets and outflows
英文摘要	A long plateau phase and an amazing level of brightness have been observed in the X-ray afterglow of GRB 060729. This peculiar light curve is likely due to long-term energy injection in external shock. Here, we present a detailed numerical study of the energy injection process of magnetic dipole radiation from a strongly magnetized millisecond pulsar and model the multi-band afterglow observations. It is found that this model can successfully explain the long plateaus in the observed X-ray and optical afterglow light curves. The sharp break following the plateaus could be due to the rapid decline of the emission power of the central pulsar. At an even later time (similar to 5 x 10(6) s), an obvious jet break appears, which implies a relatively large half opening angle of theta similar to 0.3 for the GRB ejecta. Due to the energy injection, the Lorentz factor of the outflow is still larger than two even at 10(7) s after the GRB trigger, making the X-ray afterglow of this burst detectable by Chandra even 642 d after the burst.
WOS标题词	Science & Technology ; Physical Sciences
类目[WOS]	Astronomy & Astrophysics
研究领域[WOS]	Astronomy & Astrophysics
关键词[WOS]	GAMMA-RAY BURST ; 28 FEBRUARY 1997 ; SWIFT XRT DATA ; THEORETICAL IMPLICATIONS ; LIGHT CURVES ; MODEL ; EVOLUTION ; EMISSION ; STARS
收录类别	SCI
语种	英语
WOS记录号	WOS:000272967100003
内容类型	期刊论文
源URL	[http://libir.pmo.ac.cn/handle/332002/15924]
专题	紫金山天文台_院士文集_陆埮
作者单位	1.Nanjing Univ, Dept Astron, Nanjing 210093, Peoples R China 2.Chinese Acad Sci, Purple Mt Observ, Nanjing 210008, Peoples R China
推荐引用方式 GB/T 7714	Xu, Ming,Huang, Yong-Feng,Lu, Tan. Long-term continuous energy injection in the afterglow of GRB 060729[J]. RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS,2009,9(12):1317-1323.
APA	Xu, Ming,Huang, Yong-Feng,&Lu, Tan.(2009).Long-term continuous energy injection in the afterglow of GRB 060729.RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS,9(12),1317-1323.
MLA	Xu, Ming,et al."Long-term continuous energy injection in the afterglow of GRB 060729".RESEARCH IN ASTRONOMY AND ASTROPHYSICS 9.12(2009):1317-1323.