Numerical study of synchrotron and inverse-Compton radiation from gamma-ray burst afterglows with decaying microturbulence

The multiwavelength observations of GRB afterglows, together with some high-performance particle-in-cell simulations, hint that the magnetic field may decay behind the shock front. In this work, we develop a numerical code to calculate the evolution of the accelerated electron distribution, their synchrotron and inverse-Compton (IC) spectra and accordingly the light curves (LCs) under the assumption of decaying microturbulence (DM) downstream of the shock, $\epsilon_B(t_p')\propto t_p'^{\alpha_t}$ with $t_p'$ the fluid proper time since injection. We find: (1) The synchrotron spectrum in the DM model is similar to that in the homogeneous turbulence (HT) model with very low magnetic field strength. However, the difference in the IC spectral component is relatively more obvious between them, due to the significant change of the postshock electron energy distribution with DM. (2) If the magnetic field decay faster, there are less electrons cool fast, and the IC spectral component becomes weaker. (3) The LCs in the DM model decay steeper than in the HT model, and the spectral evolution and the LCs in the DM model is similar to the HT model where the magnetic field energy fraction decreases with observer time, $\epsilon_B(t) \propto t^{5\alpha_t /8}$. (4) The DM model can naturally produce a significant IC spectral component in TeV energy range, but due to the Klein-Nishina suppression the IC power cannot be far larger than the synchrotron power. We apply the DM model to describe the afterglow data of GRB 190114C and find the magnetic field decay exponent $\alpha_t\sim -0.4$ and the electron spectral index $p\sim2.4$. Future TeV observations of the IC emission from GRB afterglows will further help to probe the poorly known microphysics of relativistic shocks.Comment: 14 pages, 9 figures, 3 tables, submitted to MNRAS, comments welcom

Similarity Analysis of Projectile Penetration into Concrete

This paper presents a dimensionless model for the depth of penetration (DOP) of a projectile penetrating into a concrete target, based on the similarity theory involving intermediate asymptotics, complete similarity, and incomplete similarity. The calculated numerical results are in good agreement with previous experimental data, including two sets of full-scale and twenty-four sets of sub-scale penetration of non-deformable projectiles into concrete targets. Moreover, compared with several empirical and semi-empirical DOP models, the new model is applicable within a relatively broader range, including the penetration of both sub-scale and full-scale projectiles. For the limitations of the validity, dimensionless parameters Π3  = ϕt/ϕ larger than 12, Π4 = (ϕ3fc)/(Mv02) smaller than 0.1, and the initial impact velocity of the projectile less than about 900 to 1000m/s are necessary for the model