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Extragalactic plus Galactic model for IceCube neutrino events

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2016-08-17 v2

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 Eν2E_\nu^{-2} spectrum while the galactic component has a Eν2.7E_\nu^{-2.7} 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 \mboxkm3\mbox{km}^3 neutrino telescopes located in the Northern Hemisphere and for gamma ray telescopes aiming at measuring events till few 100 TeV from the Southern sky.

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@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

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