Shock within a shock: Revisiting the radio flares of NS merger ejecta and gamma-ray burst-supernovae

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Fast ejecta expelled in binary neutron star (NS) mergers or energetic supernovae (SNe) should produce late-time synchrotron radio emission as the ejecta shocks into the surrounding ambient medium. Models for such radio flares typically assume the ejecta expands into an unperturbed interstellar medium (ISM). However, it is also well known that binary NS mergers and broad-lined Ic SNe Ic can harbour relativistic jetted outflows. In this work, we show that such jets shock the ambient ISM ahead of the ejecta, thus evacuating the medium into which the ejecta subsequently collides. Using an idealized spherically symmetric model, we illustrate that this inhibits the ejecta radio flare at early times t

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Margalit, B., & Piran, T. (2020). Shock within a shock: Revisiting the radio flares of NS merger ejecta and gamma-ray burst-supernovae. Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society, 495(4), 4981–4993. https://doi.org/10.1093/MNRAS/STAA1486

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