Neutrino alert systems for Gamma Ray Bursts and Transient astronomical Sources

TL;DR

This paper discusses neutrino alert systems for Gamma Ray Bursts, exploring how energetic processes in GRBs could produce high-energy neutrinos detectable by current and future telescopes.

Contribution

It analyzes the potential of neutrino detection from GRBs and presents observational strategies for upcoming neutrino telescopes.

Findings

GRBs can produce high-energy neutrinos detectable by telescopes.

Neutrino detection can provide insights into GRB mechanisms.

Observational strategies for neutrino telescopes are outlined.

Abstract

GRBs are the most energetic events in the Universe, associated with the death of massive stars (core-collapse supernovae) or the merging of neutron stars or black holes. Discovered in the early 1970s, their cosmological origin was demonstrated only in 1997, when the first distance was measured. Theoretical models predict that the very energetic processes at work in GRBs accelerate charged particles to such energies that they could contribute to the observed high energy neutrinos. These processes will be discussed and the observational consequences, in particular for current and forthcoming neutrino telescopes, presented.