PhotonAcceleration at ShockBreakout of Trans-Relativistic Supernova
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The predicted thermal flash from supernova (SN) shock breakout might have been detected for the first time by Swift in GRB 060218/SN 2006aj. The detected thermal X-ray emission in this event implies emergence of a trans-relativistic (TR) SN shock with kinetic energy of Ek & 10 erg. During TRSN shock breakout, the thermal photons could be “accelerated” by the shock through repeated bulk Compton scattering, forming a nonthermal γ/X-ray component with dominant energy over thermal one. This mechanism of “photon acceleration” at TRSN shock breakout might also account for gamma-rays in the other similar low-luminosity GRBs, implying that they are atypical GRBs with only TR outflows. TRSNe form a peculiar type of SNe with large kinetic energy, & 10erg, in TR ejecta, Γβ & 2.
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