Sensitivity of the fermi detectors to gamma-ray bursts from evaporating primordial black holes (PBHS)
Document Type
Conference Proceeding
Publication Date
1-1-2012
Abstract
Primordial Black Holes (PBHs), which may have been created in the early Universe, are predicted to be detectable by their Hawking radiation. The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observatory offers increased sensitivity to the gamma-ray bursts produced by PBHs with an initial mass of ∼ 5 × 1014 g expiring today. PBHs are candidate progenitors of unidentified Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) that lack X-ray afterglow. We propose spectral lag, which is the temporal delay between the high and low energy pulses, as an efficient method to identify PBH evaporation events with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Copyright © 2012 by World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.
Publication Title
12th Marcel Grossmann Meeting on Recent Dev. in Theoretical and Experimental General Relativity, Astrophysics and Relativistic Field Theories - Proc. of the MG 2009 Meeting on General Relativity
First Page
1588
Last Page
1590
Digital Object Identifier (DOI)
10.1142/9789814374552_0278
ISBN
9814374512,9789814374514
Citation Information
Ukwatta, T. N., MacGibbon, J.H., Parke, W.C., Dhuga, K.S., Rhodes, S., Eskandarian, A., Gehrels, N., Maximon, L., Morris, D.C. (2012) Sensitivity of the Fermi Detectors to Gamma-Ray Bursts from Evaporating Primordial Black Holes (PBHs). In Twelfth Marcel Grossmann Meeting on General Relativity, pp. 1588–1590. doi:10.1142/9789814374552_0278.