TY - JOUR
T1 - High energy neutrino flashes from far-ultraviolet and X-ray flares in gamma-ray bursts
AU - Murase, Kohta
AU - Nagataki, Shigehiro
PY - 2006
Y1 - 2006
N2 - The recent observations of bright optical and x-ray flares by the Swift satellite suggest these are produced by the late activities of the central engine. We study the neutrino emission from far-ultraviolet and x-ray flares under the late internal shock model. We show that the efficiency of pion production in the highest energy is comparable to or higher than the unity, and the contribution from such neutrino flashes to a diffuse very high energy neutrino background can be larger than that of prompt bursts if the total baryonic energy input into flares is comparable to the radiated energy of prompt bursts. These signals may be detected by IceCube and are very important because they have possibilities to probe the nature of flares (the baryon loading, the photon field, the magnetic field and so on).
AB - The recent observations of bright optical and x-ray flares by the Swift satellite suggest these are produced by the late activities of the central engine. We study the neutrino emission from far-ultraviolet and x-ray flares under the late internal shock model. We show that the efficiency of pion production in the highest energy is comparable to or higher than the unity, and the contribution from such neutrino flashes to a diffuse very high energy neutrino background can be larger than that of prompt bursts if the total baryonic energy input into flares is comparable to the radiated energy of prompt bursts. These signals may be detected by IceCube and are very important because they have possibilities to probe the nature of flares (the baryon loading, the photon field, the magnetic field and so on).
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U2 - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.051101
DO - 10.1103/PhysRevLett.97.051101
M3 - Article
AN - SCOPUS:33746926330
SN - 0031-9007
VL - 97
JO - Physical review letters
JF - Physical review letters
IS - 5
M1 - 051101
ER -