Axion Constraints from Quiescent Soft Gamma-ray Emission from Magnetars
| Autor: | Lloyd, Sheridan J., Chadwick, Paula M., Brown, Anthony M., Guo, Huai-ke, Sinha, Kuver |
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| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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| Zdroj: | Phys. Rev. D 103, 023010 (2021) |
| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| DOI: | 10.1103/PhysRevD.103.023010 |
| Popis: | Axion-like-particles (ALPs) emitted from the core of a magnetar can convert to photons in its magnetosphere. The resulting photon flux is sensitive to the product of $(i)$ the ALP-nucleon coupling $G_{an}$ which controls the production cross section in the core and $(ii)$ the ALP-photon coupling $g_{a\gamma \gamma}$ which controls the conversion in the magnetosphere. We study such emissions in the soft-gamma-ray range (300 keV to 1 MeV), where the ALP spectrum peaks and astrophysical backgrounds from resonant Compton upscattering are expected to be suppressed. Using published quiescent soft-gamma-ray flux upper limits in 5 magnetars obtained with $CGRO$ COMPTEL and $INTEGRAL$ SPI/IBIS/ISGRI, we put limits on the product of the ALP-nucleon and ALP-photon couplings. We also provide a detailed study of the dependence of our results on the magnetar core temperature. We further show projections of our result for future $Fermi$-GBM observations. Our results motivate a program of studying quiescent soft-gamma-ray emission from magnetars with the $Fermi$-GBM. Comment: 14 pages, 4 figures. Version accepted in Physical Review D. More conservative benchmark core temperature assumed, details of production in the core provided, new constraints on ALP couplings based on spectral analysis presented. Extensive supplementary material added, future projections discussed, overall conclusions unchanged |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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