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Light-curve Modelling for The Initial Rising Phase of Rapidly-evolving Transients Powered by Continuous Outflow

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2023-03-29 v1 Solar and Stellar Astrophysics

Abstract

A wind-driven model is a new framework to model observational properties of transients that are powered by continuous outflow from a central system. While it has been applied to Fast Blue Optical Transients (FBOTs), the applicability has been limited to post-peak behaviours due to the steady-state assumptions; non-steady-state physics, e.g., expanding outflow, is important to model the initial rising phase. In this paper, we construct a time-dependent wind-driven model, which can take into account the expanding outflow and the time evolution of the outflow rate. We apply the model to a sample of well-observed FBOTs. FBOTs require high outflow rates (30\sim 30 M_{\odot} yr1^{-1}) and fast velocity (0.20.3c\sim 0.2-0.3c), with the typical ejecta mass and energy budget of 0.2\sim 0.2 M_{\odot} and 1052\sim 10^{52} erg, respectively. The energetic outflow supports the idea that the central engine of FBOTs may be related to a relativistic object, e.g., a black hole. The initial photospheric temperature is 105610^{5-6} K, which suggests that FBOTs will show UV or X-ray flash similar to supernova shock breakouts. We discuss future prospects of surveys and follow-up observations of FBOTs in the UV bands. FBOTs are brighter in the UV bands than in the optical bands, and the timescale is a bit longer than in optical wavelengths. We suggest that UV telescopes with a wide field of view can play a key role in discovering FBOTs and characterizing their natures.

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@article{arxiv.2303.09798,
  title  = {Light-curve Modelling for The Initial Rising Phase of Rapidly-evolving Transients Powered by Continuous Outflow},
  author = {Kohki Uno and Keiichi Maeda},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2303.09798},
  year   = {2023}
}

Comments

7 pages, 6 Figures, and 1 Table. Accepted for publication in MNRAS