Collimated Jet or Expanding Outflow: Possible Origins of GRBs and X-Ray Flashes

Abstract

We investigate the dynamics of an injected outflow propagating in a progenitor in the context of the collapsar model for gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) through two dimensional axisymmetric relativistic hydrodynamic simulations. Initially, we locally inject an outflow near the center of a progenitor. We calculate 25 models, in total, by fixing its total input energy to be 10^{51} ergs s^{-1} and radius of the injected outflow to be $7\times 10^7$ cm while varying its bulk Lorentz factor, ${\Gamma }_0=1.05\sim 5$, and its specific internal energy, ${\epsilon }_0/c^2=0.1\sim 30$. The injected outflow propagates in the progenitor and drives a large-scale outflow or jet. We find a smooth but dramatic transition from a collimated jet to an expanding outflow among calculated models. The maximum Lorentz factor is, on the other hand, sensitive to both of ${\Gamma }_0$ and ${\epsilon }_0$; roughly ${\Gamma }_{\max }\sim {\Gamma }_0(1+{\epsilon }_0/c^2)$. Our finding will explain a smooth transition between the GRBs, X-ray rich GRBs (XRRs) and X-ray Flashes (XRFs) by the same model but with different ${\epsilon }_0$ values.

Comments 51 pages, 21 figures. accepted for publication in ApJ high resolution version is available at http://www.mpa-garching.mpg.de/~mizuta/COLLAPSAR/collapsar.html

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