High Energy Neutrinos and Cosmic-Rays From Low-Luminosity Gamma-Ray Bursts?

Technical Report · Mon Jul 10 00:00:00 UTC 2006

DOI:https://doi.org/10.2172/886791· OSTI ID:886791

Murase, Kohta; Ioka, Kunihito; Nagataki, Shigehiro; Nakamura, Takashi

The recently discovered gamma-ray burst (GRB) 060218/SN 2006aj is classified as an X-ray Flash with very long duration driven possibly by a neutron star. Since GRB 060218 is very near {approx} 140 Mpc and very dim, one-year observation by Swift suggests that the true rate of GRB 060218-like events might be very high so that such low luminosity GRBs (LL-GRBs) might form a different population of GRBs from the cosmological high luminosity GRBs (HL-GRBs). We found that the high energy neutrino background from such LL-GRBs could be comparable with or larger than that from HL-GRBs. If each neutrino event is detected by IceCube, later optical-infrared follow-up observations such as by Subaru could identify a Type Ibc supernova associated with LL-GRBs, even if gamma- and X-rays are not observed by Swift. This is in a sense a new window from neutrino astronomy, which might enable us to confirm the existence of LL-GRBs and to obtain information about their rate and origin. We also argue LL-GRBs as high energy gamma-ray and cosmic-ray sources.

• Research Organization: Stanford Linear Accelerator Center (SLAC)
• Sponsoring Organization: USDOE
• DOE Contract Number: AC02-76SF00515
• OSTI ID: 886791
• Report Number(s): SLAC-PUB-11954; astro-ph/0607104
• Country of Publication: United States
• Language: English

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