High Energy Neutrino Emission from the Earliest Gamma-Ray Bursts
arXiv:1103.5477 · doi:10.1103/PhysRevD.83.103004
Abstract
We discuss the high energy neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts resulting from the earliest generation (`population III') stars forming in the Universe, whose core collapses into a black hole. These gamma-ray bursts are expected to produce a highly relativistic, magnetically dominated jet, where protons can be accelerated to ultra-high energies. These interact with the photons produced by the jet, leading to ultra-high energy photo-meson neutrinos as well as secondary leptons and photons. The photon luminosity and the shock properties, and thus the neutrino spectrum, depend on the mass of the black holes as well as on the density of the surrounding external gas. We calculate the individual source neutrino spectral fluxes and the expected diffuse neutrino flux for various source parameters and evolution scenarios. Both the individual and diffuse signals appear detectable in the 1-300 PeV range with current and planned neutrino detectors such as IceCube and ARIANNA, provided the black hole mass is in excess of 30-100 solar masses. This provides a possible test for the debated mass of the progenitor stellar objects, as well as a probe for the early cosmological environment and the formation rate of the earliest structures.
arXiv comment13 pages, 10 figures, 2 tables, Phys. Rev. D, in press
References in corpus (52)
- Advection-Dominated Accretion: A Self-Similar Solution
- How Massive Single Stars End their Life
- The Formation of the First Star in the Universe
- The Formation of the First Stars. I. The Primordial Star Forming Cloud
- High Energy Neutrinos from Cosmological Gamma-Ray Burst Fireballs
- High Energy Neutrinos from Astrophysical Sources: An Upper Bound
- The Internal-Collision-Induced Magnetic Reconnection and Turbulence (ICMART) Model of Gamma-Ray Bursts
- A glimpse of the end of the dark ages: the gamma-ray burst of 23 April 2009 at redshift 8.3
- Pair-Instability Supernovae, Gravity Waves, and Gamma-Ray Transients
- Formation of Primordial Stars in a LCDM Universe
- Neutrinos from propagation of ultra-high energy protons
- Low-Resolution Spectroscopy of Gamma-ray Burst Optical Afterglows: Biases in the Swift Sample and Characterization of the Absorbers
- Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of the Very High Redshift Universe
- Gamma-Ray Bursts as a Probe of the Very High Redshift Universe
- The formation of the first stars and galaxies
- Discovery of z~8 Galaxies in the HUDF from ultra-deep WFC3/IR Observations
- The Reionization of the Universe by the First Stars and Quasars
- On the cosmic ray bound for models of extragalactic neutrino production
- Photohadronic Neutrinos from Transients in Astrophysical Sources
- Radiation Hydrodynamical Evolution of Primordial H II Regions
- High Energy Astrophysical Neutrinos: the Upper Bound is Robust
- Cosmogenic Neutrinos: parameter space and detectabilty from PeV to ZeV
- High-Redshift Gamma-Ray Bursts from Population III Progenitors
- The H II Region of the First Star
- High Energy Spectral Components in Gamma-Ray Burst Afterglows
- Observational Constraints on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the Second Flight of the ANITA Experiment
- Erratum: Observational Constraints on the Ultra-high Energy Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the Second Flight of the ANITA Experiment
- Flavoring Astrophysical Neutrinos: Flavor Ratios Depend on Energy
- IceCube: An Instrument for Neutrino Astronomy
- Expected Number and Flux Distribution of Gamma-Ray-Burst Afterglows with High Redshifts
- Orphan GRB radio afterglows: Candidates and constraints on beaming
- High energy neutrino early afterglows from gamma-ray bursts revisited
- Prompt GRB spectra: detailed calculations and the effect of pair production
- A Complete Survey of the Transient Radio Sky and Implications for Gamma-Ray Bursts, Supernovae, and other Relativistic Explosions
- Limits on Neutrino Emission from Gamma-Ray Bursts with the 40 String IceCube Detector
- Population III Gamma Ray Bursts
- Can Gamma-Ray Burst Jets Break Out the First Stars?
- Population III GRB Afterglows: Constraints on Stellar Masses and External Medium Densities
- Ultra-high energy cosmic rays, cascade gamma-rays, and high-energy neutrinos from gamma-ray bursts
- ARIANNA: A New Concept for UHE Neutrino Detection
- Enhanced Cosmological GRB Rates and Implications for Cosmogenic Neutrinos
- Dark Stars: a new look at the First Stars in the Universe
- A prototype station for ARIANNA: a detector for cosmic neutrinos
- Discovery of Radio Afterglow from the Most Distant Cosmic Explosion
- Very High Energy Neutrinos Originating from Kaons in Gamma-Ray Bursts
- Diffuse Cosmic Neutrino Background from Population III Stars
- High Energy neutrino signals from the Epoch of Reionization
- Modeling GRB 050904: Autopsy of a Massive Stellar Explosion at z=6.29
- Gamma Ray Bursts from the First Stars: Neutrino Signals
- An Observational Limit on the Earliest GRBs
- Neutrino emission from high-energy component gamma-ray bursts
- Population III Star Formation During and After the Reionization Epoch
Cited by in corpus (11)
- Gamma Ray Bursts
- Revisiting the Contributions of Supernova and Hypernova Remnants to the Diffuse High-Energy Backgrounds: Constraints on Very-High-Redshift Injections
- The Physics of Pulsar Halos: Research Progress and Prospect
- Gamma Ray Bursts
- UHE neutrinos from Pop III stars: concept and constraints
- Gamma Ray Bursts and their links with Supernovae and Cosmology
- Origin and Impacts of the First Cosmic Rays
- Multi-GeV Neutrino Emission from Magnetized Gamma Ray Bursts
- Neutrino production in Population III microquasars
- The neutrino velocity anomaly as an explanation of the missing observation of neutrinos in coincidence with GRB
- Neutrinos from collapsars