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Constraint on the ejecta mass for a black hole-neutron star merger event candidate S190814bv

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-06-09 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology

Abstract

We derive the upper limit to the ejecta mass of S190814bv, a black hole-neutron star merger candidate, through the radiative transfer simulations for kilonovae with the realistic ejecta density profile as well as the detailed opacity and heating rate models. The limits to the ejecta mass strongly depend on the viewing angle. For the face-on observations (45\le45^\circ), the total ejecta mass should be smaller than 0.1M0.1\,M_\odot for the average distance of S190814bv (D=267D=267 Mpc), while larger mass is allowed for the edge-on observations. We also derive the conservative upper limits of the dynamical ejecta mass to be 0.02M0.02\,M_\odot, 0.03M0.03\,M_\odot, and 0.05M0.05\,M_\odot for the viewing angle 20\le 20^\circ, 50\le 50^\circ, and for 90\le 90^\circ, respectively. We show that the {\it iz}-band observation deeper than 2222 mag within 2 d after the GW trigger is crucial to detect the kilonova with the total ejecta mass of 0.06M0.06\,M_\odot at the distance of D=300D=300 Mpc. We also show that a strong constraint on the NS mass-radius relation can be obtained if the future observations put the upper limit of 0.03M0.03\,M_\odot to the dynamical ejecta mass for a BH-NS event with the chirp mass smaller than 3M\lesssim 3\,M_\odot and effective spin larger than 0.5\gtrsim 0.5.

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@article{arxiv.2002.01662,
  title  = {Constraint on the ejecta mass for a black hole-neutron star merger event candidate S190814bv},
  author = {Kyohei Kawaguchi and Masaru Shibata and Masaomi Tanaka},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2002.01662},
  year   = {2020}
}

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16 pages, 15 figures