Extragalactic plus Galactic model for IceCube neutrino events
Abstract
The hypothesis that high energy cosmic neutrinos are power law distributed is critically analyzed. We propose a model with two components that explains better the observations. The extragalactic component of the high energy neutrino flux has a canonical spectrum while the galactic component has a spectrum; both of them are significant. This model has several implications, that can be tested by IceCube and ANTARES in the next years. Moreover, the existence of a diffuse component close to the Galactic plane and that yields (20-30)\% of IceCube's events, is interesting for the future neutrino telescopes located in the Northern Hemisphere and for gamma ray telescopes aiming at measuring events till few 100 TeV from the Southern sky.
Cite
@article{arxiv.1601.06678,
title = {Extragalactic plus Galactic model for IceCube neutrino events},
author = {Andrea Palladino and Francesco Vissani},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1601.06678},
year = {2016}
}
Comments
22 pages, 8 figures. Existence of galactic component supported also by the interpretation of passing-muons and angular distribution. Submitted to APJ