Universe, Volume 8, Issue 12
December 2022 - 55 articles
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Cover Story: The resultant face-on profiles from 3D hydrodynamic simulations of relativistic jets interact with neutron star merger and neutrino-driven wind ejecta. We show how the inhomogeneity of energy and velocity across the jet surface profile can alter the temporal afterglow light curve shape for observers at any line-of-sight angle. An analytic jet structure function that includes physically motivated parameter uncertainties due to the variability through rotation of the source is presented to replace the typically ad hoc functions used by the community. Such physically motivated jet structures are an essential ingredient for precise cosmological inference with gravitational wave electromagnetic counterparts from merger jets. View this paper