Revisiting the dispersion measure of fast radio bursts associated with gamma-ray burst afterglows

Yu, Yun-Wei

doi:10.1088/0004-637X/796/2/93

Title: Revisiting the dispersion measure of fast radio bursts associated with gamma-ray burst afterglows

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Some fast radio bursts (FRBs) are expected to be associated with the afterglow emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), while a short-lived, supermassive neutron star (NS) forms during the GRBs. I investigate the possible contributions to the dispersion measure (DM) of the FRBs from the GRB ejecta and the wind blown from the precollapsing NS. On the one hand, sometimes an internal X-ray plateau afterglow could be produced by the NS wind, which indicates that a great number of electron-positron pairs are carried by the wind. If the pair-generation radius satisfies a somewhat rigorous condition, the relativistic and dense wind would contribute a high DM to the associated FRB, which can be comparable to and even exceed the DM contributed by the intergalactic medium. On the other hand, if the wind only carries a Goldreich-Julian particle flux, its DM contribution would become negligible; meanwhile, the internal plateau afterglow would not appear. Alternatively, the FRB should be associated with a GRB afterglow produced by the GRB external shock, i.e., an energy-injection-caused shallow-decay afterglow or a normal single-power-law afterglow if the impulsive energy release of the GRB is high enough. In the latter case, the DM contributed by the high-mass GRB ejecta couldmore »« less

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Yu, Yun-Wei ^[1]

Institute of Astrophysics, Central China Normal University, Wuhan 430079 (China)

Publication Date:: Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2014

OSTI Identifier:: 22370160

Resource Type:: Journal Article

Journal Name:: Astrophysical Journal

Additional Journal Information:: Journal Volume: 796; Journal Issue: 2; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); Journal ID: ISSN 0004-637X

Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

Subject:: 79 ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY; AFTERGLOW; COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS; COSMIC RADIO SOURCES; DECAY; DISPERSIONS; ELECTRONS; EMISSION; MASS; NEUTRON STARS; PARTICLES; POSITRONS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; STELLAR WINDS; X RADIATION

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                    Yu, Yun-Wei. Revisiting the dispersion measure of fast radio bursts associated with gamma-ray burst afterglows.  United States: N. p., 2014. 
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@article{osti_22370160,

  title        = {Revisiting the dispersion measure of fast radio bursts associated with gamma-ray burst afterglows},

  author       = {Yu, Yun-Wei},

  abstractNote = {Some fast radio bursts (FRBs) are expected to be associated with the afterglow emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), while a short-lived, supermassive neutron star (NS) forms during the GRBs. I investigate the possible contributions to the dispersion measure (DM) of the FRBs from the GRB ejecta and the wind blown from the precollapsing NS. On the one hand, sometimes an internal X-ray plateau afterglow could be produced by the NS wind, which indicates that a great number of electron-positron pairs are carried by the wind. If the pair-generation radius satisfies a somewhat rigorous condition, the relativistic and dense wind would contribute a high DM to the associated FRB, which can be comparable to and even exceed the DM contributed by the intergalactic medium. On the other hand, if the wind only carries a Goldreich-Julian particle flux, its DM contribution would become negligible; meanwhile, the internal plateau afterglow would not appear. Alternatively, the FRB should be associated with a GRB afterglow produced by the GRB external shock, i.e., an energy-injection-caused shallow-decay afterglow or a normal single-power-law afterglow if the impulsive energy release of the GRB is high enough. In the latter case, the DM contributed by the high-mass GRB ejecta could be substantially important, in particular, for an environment of main-sequence stellar wind. In summary, a careful assessment on the various DM contributors could be required for the cosmological application of the expected FRB-GRB association. The future DM measurements of GRB-associated FRBs could provide a constraint on the physics of NS winds.},

  doi          = {10.1088/0004-637X/796/2/93},

  url          = {https://www.osti.gov/biblio/22370160},
  journal      = {Astrophysical Journal},

  issn         = {0004-637X},

  number       = 2,

  volume       = 796,

  place        = {United States},

  year         = {Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2014},

  month        = {Mon Dec 01 00:00:00 EST 2014}

}

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