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-ray bursts from ordinary cosmic strings
Phys. Rev. D 48, 940 – Published 15 July, 1993
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1103/PhysRevD.48.940
Abstract
We give an upper estimate for the number of -ray bursts from ordinary (nonsuperconducting) cosmic strings expected to be observed at terrestrial detectors. Assuming that cusp annihilation is the mechanism responsible for the bursts we consider strings arising at a GUT phase transition and compare our estimate with the recent BATSE results. Further we give a lower limit for the effective area of future detectors designed to detect the cosmic-string-induced flux of -ray bursts.
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