scholarly journals Constraining the contribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts to the high-energy diffuse neutrino flux with 10 years of ANTARES data

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Angela Zegarelli ◽  
Silvia Celli
Keyword(s):  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Neutrino Flux ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Gamma Ray Bursts

ON THE PRODUCTION OF HIGH-ENERGY NEUTRINOS IN GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

2014 ◽  
Vol 28 ◽  
pp. 1460207
Author(s):  
MATIAS M. REYNOSO
Keyword(s):  
Energy Loss ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Neutrino Flux ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Gamma Ray Bursts ◽  
Proton Proton ◽  
Preliminary Results ◽  
Acceleration Zone ◽  
High Energy Neutrinos

We present preliminary results of a model with two zones in order to study the production of high energy neutrinos at the prompt phase of gamma-ray bursts (GRB). We consider an acceleration zone, where protons and electrons are injected and accelerated, being subject to synchrotron, proton-proton, and proton-gamma cooling. We also assume that they can escape from this zone at a certain rate. The produced pions and the decaying muons are also subject to energy loss and gain processes within the acceleration zone, and the escaping ones are re-injected in a second zone where acceleration no longer operates. We compute the neutrino output expected from both of these zones using typical GRB parameters, and integrate in the redshift to obtain a diffuse neutrino flux which can be different from the expected within one-zone models.

scholarly journals Constraining the contribution of Gamma-Ray Bursts to the high-energy diffuse neutrino flux with 10 yr of ANTARES data

2020 ◽  
Vol 500 (4) ◽  
pp. 5614-5628
Author(s):  
A Albert ◽  
M André ◽  
M Anghinolfi ◽  
G Anton ◽  
M Ardid ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Neutrino Flux ◽  
Radial Distance ◽  
Optimization Procedure ◽  
Lorentz Factor ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Gamma Ray Bursts ◽  
Model Parameters ◽  
The Impact ◽  
Astrophysical Neutrino

ABSTRACT Addressing the origin of the astrophysical neutrino flux observed by IceCube is of paramount importance. Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) are among the few astrophysical sources capable of achieving the required energy to contribute to such neutrino flux through pγ interactions. In this work, ANTARES data have been used to search for upward going muon neutrinos in spatial and temporal coincidence with 784 GRBs occurred from 2007 to 2017. For each GRB, the expected neutrino flux has been calculated in the framework of the internal shock model and the impact of the lack of knowledge on the majority of source redshifts and on other intrinsic parameters of the emission mechanism has been quantified. It is found that the model parameters that set the radial distance where shock collisions occur have the largest impact on neutrino flux expectations. In particular, the bulk Lorentz factor of the source ejecta and the minimum variability time-scale are found to contribute significantly to the GRB-neutrino flux uncertainty. For the selected sources, ANTARES data have been analysed by maximizing the discovery probability of the stacking sample through an extended maximum-likelihood strategy. Since no neutrino event passed the quality cuts set by the optimization procedure, 90 per cent confidence level upper limits (with their uncertainty) on the total expected diffuse neutrino flux have been derived, according to the model. The GRB contribution to the observed diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux around 100 TeV is constrained to be less than 10 per cent.

scholarly journals Cosmic ray and neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts with a nuclear cascade

2018 ◽  
Vol 611 ◽  
pp. A101 ◽  
Author(s):  
D. Biehl ◽  
D. Boncioli ◽  
A. Fedynitch ◽  
W. Winter
Keyword(s):  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Neutrino Flux ◽  
Cosmic Ray ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Secondary Emission ◽  
Gamma Ray Bursts ◽  
Propagation Model ◽  
Ultra High Energy ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
Internal Shock

Aim. We discuss neutrino and cosmic ray emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) with the injection of nuclei, where we take into account that a nuclear cascade from photodisintegration can fully develop in the source. Our main objective is to test whether recent results from the IceCube and the Pierre Auger Observatory can be accommodated within the paradigm that GRBs are the sources of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Methods. We simulate this scenario in a combined source-propagation model. While our key results are obtained using an internal shock model of the source, we discuss how the secondary emission from a GRB shell can be interpreted in terms of other astrophysical models. Results. We demonstrate that the expected neutrino flux from GRBs weakly depends on the injection composition for the same injection spectra and luminosities, which implies that prompt neutrinos from GRBs can efficiently test the GRB-UHECR paradigm even if the UHECRs are nuclei. We show that the UHECR spectrum and composition, as measured by the Pierre Auger Observatory, can be self-consistently reproduced. In an attempt to describe the energy range including the ankle, we find tension with the IceCube bounds from the GRB stacking analyses. In an alternative scenario, where only the UHECRs beyond the ankle originate from GRBs, the requirement for a joint description of cosmic ray and neutrino observations favors lower luminosities, which does not correspond to the typical expectation from γ-ray observations.

scholarly journals Starburst galaxies strike back: a multi-messenger analysis with Fermi-LAT and IceCube data

2021 ◽  
Vol 503 (3) ◽  
pp. 4032-4049
Author(s):  
Antonio Ambrosone ◽  
Marco Chianese ◽  
Damiano F G Fiorillo ◽  
Antonio Marinelli ◽  
Gennaro Miele ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Cosmic Rays ◽  
Gamma Ray ◽  
Neutrino Flux ◽  
Data Interpretation ◽  
Realistic Model ◽  
High Energy ◽  
Starburst Galaxies ◽  
Neutrino Factory ◽  
High Energy Cosmic Rays ◽  
Astrophysical Objects

ABSTRACT Starburst galaxies, which are known as ‘reservoirs’ of high-energy cosmic-rays, can represent an important high-energy neutrino ‘factory’ contributing to the diffuse neutrino flux observed by IceCube. In this paper, we revisit the constraints affecting the neutrino and gamma-ray hadronuclear emissions from this class of astrophysical objects. In particular, we go beyond the standard prototype-based approach leading to a simple power-law neutrino flux, and investigate a more realistic model based on a data-driven blending of spectral indexes, thereby capturing the observed changes in the properties of individual emitters. We then perform a multi-messenger analysis considering the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) measured by Fermi-LAT and different IceCube data samples: the 7.5-yr high-energy starting events (HESE) and the 6-yr high-energy cascade data. Along with starburst galaxies, we take into account the contributions from blazars and radio galaxies as well as the secondary gamma-rays from electromagnetic cascades. Remarkably, we find that, differently from the highly-constrained prototype scenario, the spectral index blending allows starburst galaxies to account for up to $40{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ of the HESE events at $95.4{{\ \rm per\ cent}}$ CL, while satisfying the limit on the non-blazar EGB component. Moreover, values of $\mathcal {O}(100\, \mathrm{PeV})$ for the maximal energy of accelerated cosmic-rays by supernovae remnants inside the starburst are disfavoured in our scenario. In broad terms, our analysis points out that a better modelling of astrophysical sources could alleviate the tension between neutrino and gamma-ray data interpretation.

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