Neutrino and cosmic-ray emission from multiple internal shocks in gamma-ray bursts

TY - JOUR

T1 - Neutrino and cosmic-ray emission from multiple internal shocks in gamma-ray bursts

AU - Bustamante, Mauricio

AU - Baerwald, Philipp

AU - Murase, Kohta

AU - Winter, Walter

PY - 2015/4/10

Y1 - 2015/4/10

N2 - Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short-lived, luminous explosions at cosmological distances, thought to originate from relativistic jets launched at the deaths of massive stars. They are among the prime candidates to produce the observed cosmic rays at the highest energies. Recent neutrino data have, however, started to constrain this possibility in the simplest models with only one emission zone. In the classical theory of GRBs, it is expected that particles are accelerated at mildly relativistic shocks generated by the collisions of material ejected from a central engine. Here we consider neutrino and cosmic-ray emission from multiple emission regions since these internal collisions must occur at very different radii, from below the photosphere all the way out to the circumburst medium, as a consequence of the efficient dissipation of kinetic energy. We demonstrate that the different messengers originate from different collision radii, which means that multi-messenger observations open windows for revealing the evolving GRB outflows.

AB - Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are short-lived, luminous explosions at cosmological distances, thought to originate from relativistic jets launched at the deaths of massive stars. They are among the prime candidates to produce the observed cosmic rays at the highest energies. Recent neutrino data have, however, started to constrain this possibility in the simplest models with only one emission zone. In the classical theory of GRBs, it is expected that particles are accelerated at mildly relativistic shocks generated by the collisions of material ejected from a central engine. Here we consider neutrino and cosmic-ray emission from multiple emission regions since these internal collisions must occur at very different radii, from below the photosphere all the way out to the circumburst medium, as a consequence of the efficient dissipation of kinetic energy. We demonstrate that the different messengers originate from different collision radii, which means that multi-messenger observations open windows for revealing the evolving GRB outflows.

KW - astro-ph.HE

KW - hep-ph

U2 - 10.1038/ncomms7783

DO - 10.1038/ncomms7783

M3 - Journal article

SN - 2041-1723

VL - 6

JO - Nature Communications

JF - Nature Communications

M1 - 6783

ER -