Long-term Neutrino Afterglows from Gamma-Ray Bursts
Astrophysics
2009-11-07 v1
Abstract
It is widely believed that multiwavelength afterglows of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) originate from relativistic blast waves. We here show that in such blast waves, a significant fraction of the energy of shock-accelerated protons would be lost due to pion production by interactions with afterglow photons. This could lead to long-term production of -- eV neutrinos and sub-TeV -rays that accompany with usual afterglows, provided that the protons are accelerated to eV in the blast waves.
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0208435,
title = {Long-term Neutrino Afterglows from Gamma-Ray Bursts},
author = {Z. Li and Z. G. Dai and T. Lu},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0208435},
year = {2009}
}
Comments
10 pages, A&A accepted