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Expected neutrino fluence from short Gamma-Ray Burst 170817A and off-axis angle constraints

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2018-02-21 v2

Abstract

We compute the expected neutrino fluence from SGRB 170817A, associated with the gravitational wave event GW 170817, directly based on Fermi observations in two scenarios: structured jet and off-axis (observed) top-hat jet. While the expected neutrino fluence for the structured jet case is very small, large off-axis angles imply high radiation densities in the jet, which can enhance the neutrino production efficiency. In the most optimistic allowed scenario, the neutrino fluence can reach only 10410^{-4} of the sensitivity of the neutrino telescopes. We furthermore demonstrate that the fact that gamma-rays can escape limits the baryonic loading (energy in protons versus photons) and the off-axis angle for the internal shock scenario. In particular, for a baryonic loading of ten, the off-axis angle is more strongly constrained by the baryonic loading than by the time delay between the gravitational wave event and the onset of the gamma-ray emission.

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@article{arxiv.1712.00449,
  title  = {Expected neutrino fluence from short Gamma-Ray Burst 170817A and off-axis angle constraints},
  author = {Daniel Biehl and Jonas Heinze and Walter Winter},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1712.00449},
  year   = {2018}
}

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9 pages, 6 figures