VHE-UHE Properties of Gamma Ray Bursts
Creators
- 1. Center for Particle Astrophysics, Dept. of Astronomy and Astrophysics and Dept. of Physics, Pennsylvania State University, University Park, PA 16802 (United States)
Description
Gamma-ray bursts are observed to emit at least up to GeV energies, and their photon spectrum at the source is expected to extend up to TeV, due to either or both leptonic and hadronic mechanisms. I review some recent developments in GRB phenomenology in the light of Swift and other sub-MeV measurement, as well as recent theoretical work. I discuss then the acceleration of cosmic rays in GRB, which can extend to GZK energies, and the possibility of acceleration in GRB-related or other hypernovae. In both, synchrotron and inverse Compton, as well as hadronic processes, can lead to GeV-TeV gamma-rays measurable by GLAST, AGILE, or ACTs, providing useful probes of the burst physics and model parameters. Photo-meson and pp interactions also produce neutrinos at energies ranging from sub-TeV to EeV, which are targets for experiments such as IceCube, ANITA and KM3NeT.
Additional details
Identifiers
- DOI
- 10.1063/1.3076689;
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- AIP Conference Proceedings
- Journal Volume
- 1085
- Journal Issue
- 1
- Journal Page Range
- p. 38-49
- ISSN
- 0094-243X
- CODEN
- APCPCS
Conference
- Title
- 4. international meeting on high energy gamma-ray astronomy
- Dates
- 7-11 Jul 2008
- Place
- Heidelberg (Germany)
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United States
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 41005750
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Resource subtype / Literary indicator
- Conference
- Descriptors DEI
- ACCELERATION; COSMIC GAMMA BURSTS; COSMIC GAMMA SOURCES; EEV RANGE; GAMMA RADIATION; GEV RANGE 100-1000; MESONS; NEUTRINOS; NEUTRON STARS; PHOTONS; SYNCHROTRONS; TEV RANGE 01-10
- Descriptors DEC
- ACCELERATORS; BOSONS; COSMIC RADIATION; COSMIC RAY SOURCES; CYCLIC ACCELERATORS; ELECTROMAGNETIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; GEV RANGE; HADRONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; PRIMARY COSMIC RADIATION; RADIATIONS; STARS; TEV RANGE
Optional Information
- Notes
- (c) 2009 American Institute of Physics