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Axion-photon multimessenger astronomy with giant flares

Javier De Miguel* and Chiko Otani

  • The Institute of Physical and Chemical Research (RIKEN), Center for Advanced Photonics, 519-1399 Aramaki-Aoba, Aoba-ku, Sendai, Miyagi 980-0845, Japan

  • *javier.miguelhernandez@riken.jp
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Phys. Rev. D 106, L041302 – Published 25 August, 2022

DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.106.L041302

Abstract

We treat prospects for multimessenger astronomy with giant flares (GFs), a rare transient event featured by magnetars that can be as luminous as a hundred of the brightest supernovae ever observed. The beamed photons could correlate with an axion counterpart via resonant conversion in the magnetosphere. In a realistic parameter space, we find that the sensitivity limit to Galactic GFs for currently viable experiments is gϕγ≳several×10−13  GeV−1 and gϕe≳few×10−12. We rule out the compatibility of axion flares with the recent XENON1T excess only due to the time persistence of the signal.

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Phys. Rev. D 106, L041302– Published 25 August, 2022
  • Received 13 January 2022
  • Accepted 29 June 2022
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