Accretion and outflow from a magnetized, neutrino cooled torus in the gamma ray burst central engine

TL;DR

This paper uses 2D MHD simulations in General Relativity to study the accretion and jet formation in the central engine of gamma-ray bursts, focusing on hot, dense, neutrino-cooled tori around spinning black holes.

Contribution

It provides a detailed modeling of the accretion flow, jet launching, and neutrino cooling in GRB central engines, specifically for short GRBs from neutron star mergers.

Findings

Estimated neutrino luminosity for short GRB scenarios.

Characterized the structure and evolution of the accretion torus.

Demonstrated jet launching mechanisms in magnetized, neutrino-cooled environments.

Abstract

Gamma Ray Bursts (GRB) are the extremely energetic transient events, visible from the most distant parts of the Universe. They are most likely powered by accretion on the hyper-Eddington rates that proceeds onto a newly born stellar mass black hole. This central engine gives rise to the most powerful, high Lorentz factor jets that are responsible for energetic gamma ray emission. We investigate the accretion flow evolution in GRB central engine, using the 2D MHD simulations in General Relativity. We compute the structure and evolution of the extremely hot and dense torus accreting onto the fast spinning black hole, which launches the magnetized jets. We calculate the chemical structure of the disk and account for neutrino cooling. Our preliminary runs apply to the short GRB case (remnant torus accreted after NS-NS or NS-BH merger). We estimate the neutrino luminosity of such an event for chosen disk and central BH mass