Pulsar kicks from neutrino oscillations

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2004-09-21

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/0409521v2

Int.J.Mod.Phys. D13 (2004) 2065-2084

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

invited review article to appear in Int. J. Mod. Phys. (21 pages, 6 figures)

Scientific paper

10.1142/S0218271804006486

Neutrino oscillations in a core-collapse supernova may be responsible for the observed rapid motions of pulsars. Given the present bounds on the neutrino masses, the pulsar kicks require a sterile neutrino with mass 2-20 keV and a small mixing with active neutrinos. The same particle can be the cosmological dark matter. Its existence can be confirmed the by the X-ray telescopes if they detect a 1-10 keV photon line from the decays of the relic sterile neutrinos. In addition, one may be able to detect gravity waves from a pulsar being accelerated by neutrinos in the event of a nearby supernova.

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