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Neutrino Emissions from Tidal Disruption Remnants

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2020-01-08 v2 General Relativity and Quantum Cosmology High Energy Physics - Phenomenology

Abstract

We study high-energy neutrino emissions from tidal disruption remnants (TDRs) around supermassive black holes. The neutrinos are produced by the decay of charged pions originating in ultrarelativistic protons that are accelerated there. In the standard theory of tidal disruption events (TDEs), there are four distinct phases from debris circularization of stellar debris to super- and sub-Eddington to radiatively inefficient accretion flows (RIAFs). In addition, we consider the magnetically arrested disk (MAD) state in both the super-Eddington accretion and RIAF phases. We find that there are three promising cases to produce neutrino emissions: the super-Eddington accretion phase of the MAD state and the RIAF phases of both the non-MAD and MAD states. In the super-Eddington MAD state, the enhanced magnetic field makes it possible to accelerate the protons to Ep,max 0.35PeV(Mbh/107.7M)41/48E_{p,max}~0.35 PeV (M_bh/10^{7.7}M_\odot)^{41/48} with the other given appropriate parameters. The neutrino energy is then Eν,pk 67TeV(Mbh/107.7M)41/48E_{\nu,pk}~67 TeV (M_bh/10^{7.7}M_\odot)^{41/48} at the peak of the energy spectrum. For Mbh107.7MM_bh\gtrsim10^{7.7} M_\odot, the neutrino light curve is proportional to t65/24t^{-65/24}, while it follows the standard t5/3t^{-5/3} decay rate for Mbh<107.7MM_bh<10^{7.7} M_\odot. In both cases, the large luminosity and characteristic light curves diagnose the super-Eddington MAD state in TDEs. In the RIAF phase of the non-MAD state, we find Ep,max 0.45PeV(Mbh/107M)5/3E_{p, max}~0.45 PeV (M_bh/10^7M_\odot)^{5/3} and Eν,pk 0.35PeV(Mbh/107M)5/3E_{\nu,pk}~0.35 PeV (M_bh/10^7M_\odot)^{5/3}, and its light curve is proportional to t10/3t^{-10/3}. This indicates that one can identify whether the existing RIAFs are the TDE origin or not. TDRs are potentially a population of hidden neutrino sources invisible in gamma rays.

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@article{arxiv.1908.10882,
  title  = {Neutrino Emissions from Tidal Disruption Remnants},
  author = {Kimitake Hayasaki and Ryo Yamazaki},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1908.10882},
  year   = {2020}
}

Comments

41 pages, 2 figures, published in ApJ, 886 114 (2019)

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