Abstract
We consider the effect of free-streaming axion emission on numerical models for the cooling of the newly born neutron star associated with SN 1987A. We find that for an axion mass of greater than 10-3 eV, axion emission shortens the duration of the expected neutrino burst so significantly that it would be inconsistent with the neutrino observations made by the Kamiokande II and Irvine-Michigan-Brookhaven detectors. However, we have not investigated the possibility that axion trapping (which should occur for masses 0.02 eV) sufficiently reduces axion emission so that axion masses greater than 2 eV would be consistent with the neutrino observations.
| Original language | English (US) |
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| Pages (from-to) | 1020-1028 |
| Number of pages | 9 |
| Journal | Physical Review D |
| Volume | 39 |
| Issue number | 4 |
| DOIs | |
| State | Published - 1989 |
All Science Journal Classification (ASJC) codes
- Physics and Astronomy (miscellaneous)