Ultrahigh-Energy Photons as a Probe of Nearby Transient Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Sources and Possible Lorentz-Invariance Violation

Abstract

Detecting neutrinos and photons is crucial to identifying the sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs), especially for transient sources. We focus on ultrahigh-energy gamma-ray emission from transient sources such as gamma-ray bursts, since >EeV gamma rays can be more direct evidence of UHECRs than PeV neutrinos and GeV-TeV gamma rays. We demonstrate that coincident detections of about 1-100 events can be expected by current and future UHECR detectors such as Auger and JEM-EUSO, and the detection probability can be higher than that of neutrinos for nearby transient sources at <50-100 Mpc. They may be useful for constraining the uncertain cosmic radio background as well as knowing the source properties and maximum energy of UHECRs. They can also give us more than 10^4 times stronger limits on the Lorentz-invariance violation than current constraints.

4 pages, 3 figures, replaced to match the published version (PRL, 103, 081102)

References in corpus (9)

• On the Rates of Gamma Ray Bursts and Type Ib/c Supernovae
• Giant AGN Flares and Cosmic Ray Bursts
• The Jem-Euso Mission
• GRBs Neutrinos as a Tool to Explore Quantum Gravity induced Lorentz Violation
• High energy neutrino early afterglows from gamma-ray bursts revisited
• Ultra High Energy Cosmic Rays from Black Hole Jets of Radio Galaxies
• Searching for a Correlation Between Cosmic-Ray Sources Above 10^{19} eV and Large-Scale Structure
• Propagation of UHE Protons through Magnetized Cosmic Web
• Inspecting absorption in the spectra of extra-galactic gamma-ray sources for insight into Lorentz invariance violation

Cited by in corpus (41)

• Fermi Observations of GRB 090510: A Short Hard Gamma-Ray Burst with an Additional, Hard Power-Law Component from 10 keV to GeV Energies
• Lower limit on the strength and filling factor of extragalactic magnetic fields
• The Giant Radio Array for Neutrino Detection (GRAND): Science and Design
• Blazars as Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Sources: Implications for TeV Gamma-Ray Observations
• Open Questions in Cosmic-Ray Research at Ultrahigh Energies
• Constraining Very Heavy Dark Matter Using Diffuse Backgrounds of Neutrinos and Cascaded Gamma Rays
• Newly-born pulsars as sources of ultrahigh energy cosmic rays
• Testing the Newborn Pulsar Origin of Ultrahigh Energy Cosmic Rays with EeV Neutrinos
• Variable Gamma-ray Emission Induced by Ultra-High Energy Neutral Beams: Application to 4C +21.35
• The Role of Stochastic Acceleration in the Prompt Emission of Gamma-Ray Bursts: Application to Hadronic Injection
• Propagation of ultrahigh energy nuclei in clusters of galaxies: resulting composition and secondary emissions
• Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays: The Intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers
• Gamma-Ray Burst Science in the Era of the Cherenkov Telescope Array
• Gamma-Ray and Neutrino Backgrounds as Probes of the High-Energy Universe: Hints of Cascades, General Constraints, and Implications for TeV Searches
• Neutrino Background Flux from Sources of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Nuclei
• High-Energy Multi-Messenger Transient Astrophysics
• The Astrophysical Multimessenger Observatory Network (AMON): Performance and Science Program
• High-Energy Emission Induced by Ultra-High-Energy Photons as a Probe of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Accelerators Embedded in the Cosmic Web
• Neutrino Echoes from Multimessenger Transient Sources
• Very-High-Energy Gamma-Ray Signal from Nuclear Photodisintegration as a Probe of Extragalactic Sources of Ultrahigh-Energy Nuclei
• Lorentz violation effects on astrophysical propagation of very high energy photons
• Ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray nuclei and neutrinos from engine-driven supernovae
• Prospective constraints on Lorentz violation from ultrahigh-energy photon detection
• Identifying Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic-Ray Accelerators with Future Ultrahigh-Energy Neutrino Detectors
• The Role of Structured Magnetic Fields on Constraining Properties of Transient Sources of Ultra-high-energy Cosmic Rays
• Probing New Physics at Future Tau Neutrino Telescopes
• Propagation of extragalactic photons at ultra-high energy with the EleCa code
• Origin and Impacts of the First Cosmic Rays
• Revisiting Tests of Lorentz Invariance with Gamma-ray Bursts: Effects of Intrinsic Lags
• Synchrotron pair halo and echo emission from blazars in the cosmic web: application to extreme TeV blazars
• Origin of the spectral upturn in the cosmic-ray C/Fe and O/Fe ratios
• Neutrino emission from high-energy component gamma-ray bursts
• Probing superheavy dark matter through lunar radio observations of ultrahigh-energy neutrinos and the impacts of neutrino cascades
• Testing Short Distance Anisotropy in Space
• Neutrino Production in Electromagnetic Cascades: An extra component of cosmogenic neutrino at ultrahigh energies
• Blazar jets as possible sources of ultra-high energy photons: a short review
• Light curves of BSM-induced neutrino echoes in the optically-thin limit
• Tracing Cosmic accelerators with Decaying Neutrons
• Revisiting Propagation Delays of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays from Long-lived Sources
• Modeling the imprints of large-scale magnetized structures on $\gamma$-rays from extragalactic transients
• The effect of loop quantum gravitational rainbow functions on the formation of naked singularities