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Supernova 1987A Energy-Loss Argument<br />

Georg Raffelt, Max-Planck-Institut für Physik, München, Germany<br />

PONT d‘Avignon, 21-25 April 2008, Avignon, France<br />

Neutrino<br />

sphere<br />

SN 1987A neutrino signal<br />

Neutrino<br />

diffusion<br />

Volume emission<br />

of novel particles<br />

Emission of very weakly interacting<br />

particles would “steal” energy from the<br />

neutrino burst and shorten it.<br />

(Early neutrino burst powered by accretion,<br />

not sensitive to volume energy loss.)<br />

Late-time time signal most sensitive observable

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