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Memory effect from supernova neutrino shells

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2017-09-20 v4 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Theory

Abstract

When a supernova explodes, most of its energy is released in a shell of relativistic neutirnos which changes the surrounding geometry. We calculate the potentially observable responses to such a change in both pulsar scintillation and conventional interferometers. In both cases, the responses are permanent changes due to such a transient event. This is by-definition a memory effect. In addition to the transverse component in the usual gravitational memory (Christodolou effect) effect, it also has a longitudinal component. Furthermore it is different from the Christodolou effect as the transverse component of this memory effect also has a term that grows with time.

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@article{arxiv.1605.05399,
  title  = {Memory effect from supernova neutrino shells},
  author = {Darsh Kodwani and Ue-Li Pen and I-Sheng Yang},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1605.05399},
  year   = {2017}
}

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