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Ideal Engine Durations For Gamma-Ray-Burst-Jet Launch

arXiv:1707.01056 · doi:10.1093/mnras/stx987

Abstract

Aiming to study GRB engine duration, we present numerical simulations to investigate collapsar jets. We consider typical explosion energy ( erg) but different engine durations, in the widest domain to date from 0.1 to 100 s. We employ an AMR 2D hydrodynamical code. Our results show that engine duration strongly influences jet nature. We show that the efficiency of launching and collimating relativistic outflow increases with engine duration, until the intermediate engine range where it is the highest, past this point to long engine range, the trend is slightly reversed; we call this point where acceleration and collimation are the highest "sweet spot" (10 -- 30 s). Moreover, jet energy flux shows that variability is also high in this duration domain. We argue that not all engine durations can produce the collimated, relativistic and variable long GRB-jets. Considering a typical progenitor and engine energy, we conclude that the ideal engine duration to reproduce a long GRB is 10 -- 30 s, where the launch of relativistic, collimated and variable jets is favored. We note that this duration domain makes a good link with Lazzati et al. (2013), which suggested that the bulk of BATSE's long GRBs is powered by 10 -- 20 s collapsar engines.

19 pages, 16 figures, 3 tables. Accepted for publication in MNRAS

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