Probing for Leptonic Signatures from GRB030329 with AMANDA-II
The discovery of high-energy (TeV-PeV) neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) would shed light on their intrinsic microphysics by confirming hadronic acceleration in the relativistic jet; possibly revealing an acceleration mechanism for the highest energy cosmic rays. We describe an analysis featuri...
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ftdatacite:10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0510336 2023-05-15T13:39:19+02:00 Probing for Leptonic Signatures from GRB030329 with AMANDA-II Stamatikos, Michael Kurtzweil, Jenny Clarke, Melanie J. 2005 https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0510336 https://arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0510336 unknown arXiv Assumed arXiv.org perpetual, non-exclusive license to distribute this article for submissions made before January 2004 http://arxiv.org/licenses/assumed-1991-2003/ Astrophysics astro-ph FOS Physical sciences Preprint Article article CreativeWork 2005 ftdatacite https://doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.astro-ph/0510336 2022-04-01T16:13:33Z The discovery of high-energy (TeV-PeV) neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) would shed light on their intrinsic microphysics by confirming hadronic acceleration in the relativistic jet; possibly revealing an acceleration mechanism for the highest energy cosmic rays. We describe an analysis featuring three models based upon confronting the fireball phenomenology with ground-based and satellite observations of GRB030329, which triggered the High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE-II). Contrary to previous diffuse searches, the expected discrete muon neutrino energy spectra for models 1 and 2, based upon an isotropic and beamed emission geometry, respectively, are directly derived from the fireball description of the prompt gamma-ray photon energy spectrum, whose spectral fit parameters are characterized by the Band function, and the spectroscopically observed redshift, based upon the associated optical transient (OT) afterglow. For comparison, we also consider a model (3) based upon averaged burst parameters and isotropic emission. Strict spatial and temporal constraints (based upon electromagnetic observations), in conjunction with a single, robust selection criterion (optimized for discovery) have been leveraged to realize a nearly background-free search, with nominal signal loss, using archived data from the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA-II). Our preliminary results are consistent with a null signal detection, with a peak muon neutrino effective area of ~80 m^2 at ~2 PeV and a flux upper limit of ~0.150 GeV/cm^2/s for model 1. Predictions for IceCube, AMANDA's kilometer scale successor, are compared with those found in the literature. Implications for correlative searches are discussed : 8 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Pune, India (August 2005) Report Antarc* Antarctic DataCite Metadata Store (German National Library of Science and Technology) Antarctic The Antarctic |
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The discovery of high-energy (TeV-PeV) neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) would shed light on their intrinsic microphysics by confirming hadronic acceleration in the relativistic jet; possibly revealing an acceleration mechanism for the highest energy cosmic rays. We describe an analysis featuring three models based upon confronting the fireball phenomenology with ground-based and satellite observations of GRB030329, which triggered the High Energy Transient Explorer (HETE-II). Contrary to previous diffuse searches, the expected discrete muon neutrino energy spectra for models 1 and 2, based upon an isotropic and beamed emission geometry, respectively, are directly derived from the fireball description of the prompt gamma-ray photon energy spectrum, whose spectral fit parameters are characterized by the Band function, and the spectroscopically observed redshift, based upon the associated optical transient (OT) afterglow. For comparison, we also consider a model (3) based upon averaged burst parameters and isotropic emission. Strict spatial and temporal constraints (based upon electromagnetic observations), in conjunction with a single, robust selection criterion (optimized for discovery) have been leveraged to realize a nearly background-free search, with nominal signal loss, using archived data from the Antarctic Muon and Neutrino Detector Array (AMANDA-II). Our preliminary results are consistent with a null signal detection, with a peak muon neutrino effective area of ~80 m^2 at ~2 PeV and a flux upper limit of ~0.150 GeV/cm^2/s for model 1. Predictions for IceCube, AMANDA's kilometer scale successor, are compared with those found in the literature. Implications for correlative searches are discussed : 8 pages, 3 figures; to appear in the Proceedings of the 29th International Cosmic Ray Conference in Pune, India (August 2005) |
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Probing for Leptonic Signatures from GRB030329 with AMANDA-II |
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Probing for Leptonic Signatures from GRB030329 with AMANDA-II |
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Probing for Leptonic Signatures from GRB030329 with AMANDA-II |
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