Neutrino signal from pair-instability supernovae

Wright, Warren P.; Gilmer, Matthew S.; Fröhlich, Carla; Kneller, James P.

doi:10.1103/physrevd.96.103008

Title: Neutrino signal from pair-instability supernovae

Journal Article · Mon Nov 13 00:00:00 EST 2017 · Physical Review. D.

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/physrevd.96.103008· OSTI ID:1541119

Wright, Warren P. ^[1]; Gilmer, Matthew S. ^[1]; Fröhlich, Carla ^[1]; Kneller, James P. ^[1]

North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)

A very massive star with a carbon-oxygen core in the range of 64 M_⊙< M_CO < 133 M_⊙ is expected to undergo a very different kind of explosion known as a pair-instability supernova. Pair-instability supernovae are candidates for superluminous supernovae due to the prodigious amounts of radioactive elements they create. While the basic mechanism for the explosion is understood, how a star reaches a state is not, and thus observations of a nearby pair-instability supernova would allow us to test current models of stellar evolution at the extreme of stellar masses. Much will be sought within the electromagnetic radiation we detect from such a supernova but we should not forget that the neutrinos from a pair-instability supernova contain unique signatures of the event that unambiguously identify this type of explosion. Here we calculate the expected neutrino flux at Earth from two, one-dimensional pair-instability supernova simulations which bracket the mass range of stars which explode by this mechanism taking into account the full time and energy dependence of the neutrino emission and the flavor evolution through the outer layers of the star. We calculate the neutrino signals in five different detectors chosen to represent present or near future designs. We find the more massive progenitors explode as pair-instability supernova which can easily be detected in multiple different neutrino detectors at the “standard” supernova distance of 10 kpc producing several events in DUNE, JUNO, and Super-Kamiokande, while the lightest progenitors produce only a handful of events (if any) in the same detectors. The proposed Hyper-Kamiokande detector would detect neutrinos from a large pair-instability supernova as far as ~50 kpc allowing it to reach the Megallanic Clouds and the several very high mass stars known to exist there.

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Research Organization:: North Carolina State University, Raleigh, NC (United States)

Sponsoring Organization:: USDOE Office of Science (SC)

Grant/Contract Number:: SC0010263; FG02-02ER41216; FG02-10ER41577

OSTI ID:: 1541119

Alternate ID(s):: OSTI ID: 1408562

Journal Information:: Physical Review. D., Vol. 96, Issue 10; ISSN 2470-0010

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Country of Publication:: United States

Language:: English

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