Gamma Rays from SN1987A due to Pseudoscalar Conversion

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1996-06-05

arxiv.org/abs/astro-ph/9606028v1

Phys.Rev.Lett. 77 (1996) 2372-2375

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Astrophysics

8 pages, no figures

Scientific paper

10.1103/PhysRevLett.77.2372

A light pseudoscalar coupled to two photons would be copiously emitted by the core of a supernova. Part of this flux would be converted to $\gamma-$rays by the galactic magnetic field. Measurements on the SN1987A $\gamma-$ray flux by the Gamma-Ray Spectrometer on the Solar Maximum Mission satellite already imply a bound on the coupling $g < 3 \times 10^{-12}$ GeV$^{-1}$. The improved generation of satellite-borne detectors, like EGRET or the project GLAST, could be able to detect a pseudoscalar-to-photon signal from a nearby supernova, for allowed values of $g$.

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