Black hole spin influence on accretion disk neutrino detection

O. L. Caballero, T. Zielinski, G. C. McLaughlin, and R. Surman
Phys. Rev. D 93, 123015 – Published 22 June 2016

Abstract

Neutrinos are copiously emitted from neutrino-cooled black hole accretion disks playing a fundamental role in their evolution, as well as in the production of gamma ray bursts and r-process nucleosynthesis. The black hole generates a strong gravitational field able to change the properties of the emerging neutrinos. We study the influence of the black hole spin on the structure of the neutrino surfaces, neutrino luminosities, average neutrino energies, and event counts at SuperK. We consider several disk models and provide estimates that cover different black hole efficiency scenarios. We discuss the influence of the detector’s inclination with respect to the axis of the torus on neutrino properties. We find that tori around spinning black holes have larger luminosities, energies, and rates compared to tori around static black holes and that the inclination of the observer causes a reduction in the luminosities and detection rates but an increase in the average energies.

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  • Received 27 October 2015

DOI:https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.93.123015

© 2016 American Physical Society

Physics Subject Headings (PhySH)

Gravitation, Cosmology & Astrophysics

Authors & Affiliations

O. L. Caballero* and T. Zielinski

  • Department of Physics, University of Guelph, Guelph, Ontario N1G 2W1, Canada

G. C. McLaughlin

  • Department of Physics, North Carolina State University, Raleigh, North Carolina 27695, USA

R. Surman

  • Department of Physics, University of Notre Dame, Notre Dame, Indiana 46556, USA

  • *lcaballe@umail.iu.edu

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Vol. 93, Iss. 12 — 15 June 2016

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