Revealing the Supernova--Gamma-Ray Burst Connection with TeV Neutrinos
Abstract
Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are rare but powerful explosions displaying highly relativistic jets. It has been suggested that a significant fraction of the much more frequent core-collapse supernovae are accompanied by comparably energetic but mildly relativistic jets, which would indicate an underlying supernova--GRB connection. We calculate the neutrino spectra from the decays of pions and kaons produced in jets in supernovae, and show that the kaon contribution is dominant and provides a sharp break near 20 TeV, which is a sensitive probe of the conditions inside the jet. For a supernova at 10 Mpc, 30 events above 100 GeV are expected in a 10 s burst in the IceCube detector.
Keywords
Cite
@article{arxiv.astro-ph/0502521,
title = {Revealing the Supernova--Gamma-Ray Burst Connection with TeV Neutrinos},
author = {Shin'ichiro Ando and John F. Beacom},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:astro-ph/0502521},
year = {2007}
}
Comments
4 pages, 2 figures; revised version, accepted for publication in Physical Review Letters