Neutrino emission from high-energy component gamma-ray bursts

• Main Author: Olivo, Martino
• Format: Others
• Language: English
• Published: Uppsala universitet, Högenergifysik 2010
• Subjects: neutrino; GRB; IceCube; Astroparticle physics; Astropartikelfysik
• Online Access: http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-132961

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are brief and sudden explosions radiating most of their energy in the soft γ-ray band ( 100 keV). In the context of multimessenger astroparticle physics recent observations of GRBs provide an excellent benchmark for testing theoretical models of high energy emission mechanisms. Acceleration of hadrons in the engine is expected to produce high energy neutrinos and gamma-rays simultaneously via π±/π0 decays, thus reinforcing the motivation for coincident searches in km3 neutrino telescopes. The Waxman-Bachall spectra and the corresponding expected neutrino rates in IceCube are derived here for GRB090510 amd GRB090902B recently detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope. The implications of the significant detection of deviations from the Band function fit in photon spectra and a model that explains these extra-components in terms of π0-decay photons are presented here and the relevance to neutrino astronomy is shown.