Astronomy and Astrophysics – Astrophysics
Scientific paper
2001-08-28
Astrophys.J. 569 (2002) 343-348
Astronomy and Astrophysics
Astrophysics
16 pages, 3 figures, revised version submitted to ApJ
Scientific paper
10.1086/339276
Neutron stars, just after their formation, are surrounded by expanding, dense, and very hot envelopes which radiate thermal photons. Iron nuclei can be accelerated in the wind zones of such energetic pulsars to very high energies. These nuclei photo-disintegrate and their products lose energy efficiently in collisions with thermal photons and with the matter of the envelope, mainly via pion production. When the temperature of the radiation inside the envelope of the supernova drops below $\sim 3\times 10^6$ K, these pions decay before losing energy and produce high energy neutrinos. We estimate the flux of muon neutrinos emitted during such an early phase of the pulsar - supernova envelope interaction. We find that a 1 km$^2$ neutrino detector should be able to detect neutrinos above 1 TeV within about one year after the explosion from a supernova in our Galaxy. This result holds if these pulsars are able to efficiently accelerate nuclei to energies $\sim 10^{20}$ eV, as postulated recently by some authors for models of Galactic acceleration of the extremely high energy cosmic rays (EHE CRs).
Beall J. H.
Bednarek Wlodek
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