The author estimates the distances out to which various terrestrial neutrino detectors can see a stellar collapse. With these ranges, neutrino burst detection rates are obtained. The mean time between detections is expected to be rather long. A realistic estimate for this time is ≡50 - 100 years. Whether this is indeed the case depends sensitively on the as yet unknown mean energy of the emitted neutrinos and the galactic collapse rate.
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Adam Burrows (1984) studied this question.