INVESTIGATION OF PRIMORDIAL BLACK HOLE BURSTS USING INTERPLANETARY NETWORK GAMMA-RAY BURSTS

Journal Article · Wed Jul 20 00:00:00 EDT 2016 · Astrophysical Journal

DOI:https://doi.org/10.3847/0004-637X/826/1/98· OSTI ID:22666021

Ukwatta, T. N. ^[1]; Hurley, K. ^[2]; MacGibbon, J. H. ^[3]; Svinkin, D. S.; Aptekar, R. L.; Golenetskii, S. V.; Frederiks, D. D.; Pal'shin, V. D. ^[4]; Goldsten, J. ^[5]; Boynton, W. ^[6]; Kozyrev, A. S. ^[7]; Rau, A.; Kienlin, A. von; Zhang, X. ^[8]; Connaughton, V. ^[9]; Yamaoka, K. ^[10]; Ohno, M. ^[11]; Ohmori, N. ^[12]; Feroci, M. ^[13]; others, and

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1. Director's Postdoctoral Fellow, Space and Remote Sensing (ISR-2), Los Alamos National Laboratory, Los Alamos, NM 87545 (United States)
2. University of California, Berkeley, Space Sciences Laboratory, 7 Gauss Way, Berkeley, CA 94720-7450 (United States)
3. Department of Physics, University of North Florida, Jacksonville, FL 32224 (United States)
4. Ioffe Physical Technical Institute, St. Petersburg, 194021 (Russian Federation)
5. Applied Physics Laboratory, Johns Hopkins University, Laurel, MD 20723 (United States)
6. Department of Planetary Sciences, University of Arizona, Tucson, AZ 85721 (United States)
7. Space Research Institute, 84/32, Profsoyuznaya, Moscow 117997 (Russian Federation)
8. Max-Planck-Institut für extraterrestrische Physik, Giessenbachstrasse, Postfach 1312, Garching, D-85748 (Germany)
9. University of Alabama in Huntsville, NSSTC, 320 Sparkman Drive, Huntsville, AL 35805 (United States)
10. Department of Physics and Mathematics, Aoyama Gakuin University, 5-10-1 Fuchinobe, Sagamihara, Kanagawa 229-8558 (Japan)
11. Department of Physics, Hiroshima University, 1-3-1 Kagamiyama, Higashi-Hiroshima, Hiroshima 739-8526 (Japan)
12. Department of Applied Physics, University of Miyazaki, 1-1 Gakuen kibanadai-nishi, Miyazaki-shi, Miyazaki 889-2192 (Japan)
13. INAF/IAPS-Roma, via Fosso del Cavaliere 100, I-00133, Roma (Italy)

The detection of a gamma-ray burst (GRB) in the solar neighborhood would have very important implications for GRB phenomenology. The leading theories for cosmological GRBs would not be able to explain such events. The final bursts of evaporating primordial black holes (PBHs), however, would be a natural explanation for local GRBs. We present a novel technique that can constrain the distance to GRBs using detections from widely separated, non-imaging spacecraft. This method can determine the actual distance to the burst if it is local. We applied this method to constrain distances to a sample of 36 short-duration GRBs detected by the Interplanetary Network (IPN) that show observational properties that are expected from PBH evaporations. These bursts have minimum possible distances in the 10{sup 13}–10{sup 18} cm (7–10{sup 5} au) range, which are consistent with the expected PBH energetics and with a possible origin in the solar neighborhood, although none of the bursts can be unambiguously demonstrated to be local. Assuming that these bursts are real PBH events, we estimate lower limits on the PBH burst evaporation rate in the solar neighborhood.

• OSTI ID: 22666021
• Journal Information: Astrophysical Journal, Vol. 826, Issue 1; Other Information: Country of input: International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA); ISSN 0004-637X
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

Related Subjects

79 ASTROPHYSICS
COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY
BLACK HOLES
COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS
DETECTION
EVAPORATION
GAMMA RADIATION
INTERPLANETARY SPACE
SPACE VEHICLES