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http://hdl.handle.net/2289/6485| Title: | Photodisintegrated gamma rays and neutrinos from heavy nuclei in the gamma-ray burst jet of GRB 130427A |
| Authors: | Joshi, Jagdish C. Razzaque, Soebur Moharana, Reetanjali |
| Keywords: | 24 months |
| Issue Date: | May-2016 |
| Publisher: | Oxford University Press for The Royal Astronomical Society |
| Citation: | Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society Letters , 2016, Vol. 458, L79 - L83 |
| Abstract: | Detection of ∼0.1–70 GeV prompt γ-ray emission from the exceptionally bright gamma-ray burst (GRB) 130427A by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope provides an opportunity to explore the physical processes of GeV γ-ray emission from the GRB jets. In this work, we discuss interactions of Iron and Oxygen nuclei with observed keV–MeV photons in the jet of GRB 130427A in order to explain an additional, hard spectral component observed during 11.5–33 s after trigger. The photodisintegration time-scale for Iron nuclei is comparable to or shorter than this duration. We find that γ rays resulting from the Iron nuclei disintegration can account for the hard power-law component of the spectra in the ∼1–70 GeV range, before the γγ → e± pair production with low-energy photons severely attenuates emission of higher energy photons. Electron antineutrinos from the secondary neutron decay, on the other hand, can be emitted with energies up to ∼2 TeV. The flux of these neutrinos is low and consistent with non-detection of GRB 130427A by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. The required total energy in the Iron nuclei for this hadronic model for GeV emission is ≲10 times the observed total energy released in the prompt keV–MeV emission. |
| Description: | Restricted Access. An open-access version is available at arXiv.org (one of the alternative locations) |
| URI: | http://hdl.handle.net/2289/6485 |
| ISSN: | 1745-3933 (online) 1745-3925 |
| Alternative Location: | http://adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2016MNRAS.458L..79J http://arxiv.org/abs/1512.02434 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/mnrasl/slw023 |
| Copyright: | 2016 The authors & the Royal Astronomical Society. |
| Appears in Collections: | Research Papers (A&A) |
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