Cosmic Sparks from Superconducting Strings
Tanmay Vachaspati
DOI 10.1103/PhysRevLett.101.141301 · Physical Review Letters
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Abstract
We investigate cosmic sparks from cusps on superconducting cosmic strings in light of the recently discovered millisecond radio burst by Lorimer et al.. We find that the observed duration, fluence, spectrum, and event rate can be reasonably explained by grand unification scale superconducting cosmic strings that carry currents ∼105 GeV. The superconducting string model predicts an event rate that falls off only as S−1/2, where S is the energy flux, and hence predicts a population of very bright bursts. Other surveys, with different observational parameters, are shown to impose tight constraints on the superconducting string model.
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