2000/02/09 by Katsuaki Asano, Takeshi Fukuyama · 53 citations
Physics and Astronomy · #Accretion (finance) #Annihilation #Astrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena #Gamma-ray bursts and supernovae #Gravitation #Gravitational binding energy #Gravitational energy #Gravitational field #Gravitational redshift #Neutrino #Neutrino Physics Research #Redshift #astro-ph
paper · pdf · doi:10.1086/308513
published in The Astrophysical Journal 531(2), 949-955 (IOP Publishing) · 18 pages, 6 figures, aasms4.sty. To appear in ApJ Part 1, March 10
arxiv created 2000/02/09 · openalex publication_date 2000/03/10 · arxiv updated 2009/12/01 · openalex created_date 2016/06/24 · openalex updated_date 2026/08/05
We study semianalytically the gravitational effects on neutrino pair annihilation near the neutrinosphere and around the thin accretion disk. For the disk case, we assume that the accretion disk is isothermal and that the gravitational field is dominated by the Schwarzschild black hole. General relativistic effects are studied only near the rotation axis. The energy deposition rate is enhanced by the effect of orbital bending toward the center. However, the effects of the redshift and gravitational trapping of the deposited energy reduce the effective energy of the gamma-ray burst's source. Although each effect is substantial, the effects partly cancel one another. As a result, the gravitational effects do not substantially change the energy deposition rate for either the spherically symmetric case or the disk case.