Collision-induced magnetic reconnection and a unified interpretation of polarization properties of GRBs and blazars
arXiv:1602.03879 · doi:10.3847/2041-8205/821/1/L12
Abstract
The jet composition and energy dissipation mechanism of Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and Blazars are fundamental questions which remain not fully understood. One plausible model is to interpret the -ray emission of GRBs and optical emission of blazars as synchrotron radiation of electrons accelerated from the collision-induced magnetic dissipation regions in Poynting-flux-dominated jets. The polarization observation is an important and independent information to test this model. Based on our recent 3D relativistic MHD simulations of collision-induced magnetic dissipation of magnetically dominated blobs, here we perform calculations of the polarization properties of the emission in the dissipation region and apply the results to model the polarization observational data of GRB prompt emission and blazar optical emission. We show that the same numerical model with different input parameters can reproduce well the observational data of both GRBs and blazars, especially the polarization angle (PA) change in GRB 100826A and the PA swing in Blazar 3C279. This supports a unified model for GRB and blazar jets, suggesting that collision-induced magnetic reconnection is a common physical mechanism to power the relativistic jet emission from events with very different black hole masses.
arXiv comment7 pages, 4 figures, accepted by ApJL
References in corpus (34)
- Unsteady Outflow Models for Cosmological Gamma-Ray Bursts
- The Physics of Gamma-Ray Bursts and Relativistic Jets
- The Internal-Collision-Induced Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence (ICMART) Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Leptonic and Hadronic Modeling of Fermi-Detected Blazars
- Can internal shocks produce the variability in GRBs?
- Turbulent, Extreme Multi-Zone Model for Simulating Flux and Polarization Variability in Blazars
- Fast TeV variability in blazars: jets in a jet
- Steep Slopes and Preferred Breaks in GRB Spectra: the Role of Photospheres and Comptonization
- Gamma-ray bursts from internal shocks in a relativistic wind: temporal and spectral properties
- Formation of Hard Power-laws in the Energetic Particle Spectra Resulting from Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection
- A change in the optical polarization associated with a gamma-ray flare in the blazar 3C 279
- A Universal Scaling for the Energetics of Relativistic Jets From Black Hole Systems
- Evidence of an initially magnetically dominated outflow in GRB 080916C
- Fast cooling synchrotron radiation in a decaying magnetic field and -ray burst emission mechanism
- Detection of Gamma-Ray Polarization in Prompt Emission of GRB 100826A
- Search for Prompt Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with IceCube
- RoboPol: First season rotations of optical polarization plane in blazars
- Model-dependent high-energy neutrino flux from Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Modeling the Large Scale Structures of Astrophysical Jets in the Magnetically Dominated Limit
- Synchrotron Polarization in Blazars
- A Turbulent Model of Gamma-Ray Burst Variability
- Polarization Swings Reveal Magnetic Energy Dissipation in Blazars
- Polarization properties of photospheric emission from relativistic, collimated outflows
- Spatial Growth of the Current-Driven Instability in Relativistic Jets
- Relativistic MHD simulations of collision-induced magnetic dissipation in Poynting-flux-dominated jets/outflows
- Episodic Jets as the Central Engine of Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Radiation Mechanism and Jet Composition of Gamma-Ray Bursts and GeV-TeV selected Radio Loud Active Galactic Nuclei
- Stepwise Filter Correlation Method and Evidence of Superposed Variability Components in GRB Prompt Emission Lightcurves
- Relativistic MHD Simulations of Poynting Flux-Driven Jets
- The extension of variability properties in gamma-ray bursts to blazars
- Radiation from a Relativistic Poynting Jet: some general considerations
- Similar phenomena at different scales: Black Holes, the Sun, Gamma-ray Bursts, Supernovae, Galaxies and Galaxy Clusters
- Cosmic Ray Acceleration by E-Parallel Reconnection of Force-Free Fields
- Phenomenological Analogies in Black Hole Systems of all Masses
Cited by in corpus (25)
- The Observer's Guide to the Gamma-Ray Burst-Supernova Connection
- RoboPol: Connection between optical polarization plane rotations and gamma-ray flares in blazars
- Detailed polarization measurements of the prompt emission of five Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Lowly polarized light from a highly magnetized jet of GRB 190114C
- Multiwavelength observations of the blazar BL Lacertae: a new fast TeV gamma-ray flare
- Radiation and Polarization Signatures from Magnetic Reconnection in Relativistic Jets--I. A Systematic Study
- A Comprehensive Power Spectral Density Analysis of Astronomical Time Series. II. The Swift/BAT Long Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Polarization Signatures of Kink Instabilities in the Blazar Emission Region from Relativistic Magnetohydrodynamic Simulations
- AstroSat-CZTI detection of variable prompt emission polarization in GRB 171010A
- Polarization with a 3-dimensional Mixed Magnetic Field and Its Application to GRB 170817A
- Temporal Evolution of Prompt GRB Polarization
- Numerical and analytical solutions of Neutrino-Dominated Accretion Flows with a Non-Zero Torque Boundary Condition and its applications in Gamma-ray Bursts
- Photospheric Polarization Signatures From Long Gamma Ray Burst Simulations
- Gamma-Ray Burst Optical Afterglows with Two-Component Jets: Polarization Evolution Revisited
- Turbulent reconnection acceleration
- Photospheric Prompt Emission From Long Gamma Ray Burst Simulations -- II. Spectropolarimetry
- The Synchrotron Polarization in Decaying Magnetic Field in Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Magnetized Reverse Shock: Density-fluctuation-induced Field Distortion, Polarization Degree Reduction, and Application to GRBs
- Can Turbulence Dominate Depolarization of Optical Blazars?
- Interpreting time-integrated polarization data of gamma-ray burst prompt emission
- The polarization-angle flip in GRB prompt emission
- Spectral Lag for a Radiating Jet Shell with a High Energy Cut-off Radiation Spectrum
- Synchrotron Polarization of Relativistic Thermal Electrons
- An energy-conserving dynamical model of GRB afterglows from magnetized forward and reverse shocks
- Is gamma-ray burst polarization from photosphere emission?