TY - JOUR
AU - Yuan, Chengchao
AU - Winter, Walter
AU - Zhang, B. Theodore
AU - Murase, Kohta
AU - Zhang, Bing
TI - Revisiting X-ray Afterglows of Jetted Tidal Disruption Events with the External Reverse Shock
JO - The astrophysical journal / Part 1
VL - 982
IS - 2
SN - 0004-637X
CY - London
PB - Institute of Physics Publ.
M1 - PUBDB-2024-06650
M1 - arXiv:2411.07925
M1 - arXiv:2411.07925
SP - 196
PY - 2024
N1 - 10 pages, 3 figures, 1 table. Comments are welcome
AB - We investigate the external reverse shock region of relativistic jets as the origin of X-ray afterglows of jetted tidal disruption events (TDEs) that exhibit luminous jets accompanied by fast-declining non-thermal X-ray emissions. We model the dynamics of jet propagating within an external density medium, accounting for continuous energy injection driven by accretion activities. We compute the time-dependent synchrotron and inverse Compton emissions from the reverse shock region. Our analysis demonstrates that the reverse shock scenario can potentially explain the X-ray light curves and spectra of four jetted TDEs, AT 2022cmc, Swift J1644, Swift J2058, and Swift J1112. Notably, the rapid steepening of the late-stage X-ray light curves can be attributed jointly to the jet break and cessation of the central engine as the accretion rate drops below the Eddington limit. Using parameters obtained from X-ray data fitting, we also discuss the prospects for γ-ray and neutrino detection.
LB - PUB:(DE-HGF)16
UR - <Go to ISI:>//WOS:001456037200001
DO - DOI:10.3847/1538-4357/adbbde
UR - https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/617191
ER -