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Galactic sources of high energy neutrinos: Expectation from gamma-ray data

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2016-07-20 v1

Abstract

The recent results from ground based γ\gamma-ray detectors (HESS, MAGIC, VERITAS) provide a population of TeV galactic γ\gamma-ray sources which are potential sources of High Energy (HE) neutrinos. Since the γ\gamma-rays and ν\nu -s are produced from decays of neutral and charged pions, the flux of TeV γ\gamma-rays can be used to estimate the upper limit of ν\nu flux and vice versa; the detectability of ν\nu flux implies a minimum flux of the accompanying γ\gamma-rays (assuming the internal and the external absorption of γ\gamma-rays is negligible). Using this minimum flux, it is possible to find the sources which can be detected with cubic-kilometer telescopes. I will discuss the possibility to detect HE neutrinos from powerful galactic accelerators, such as Supernova Remnants (SNRs) and Pulsar Wind Nebulae (PWNe) and show that likely only RX J1713.7-3946 , RX J0852.0-4622 and Vela X can be detected by current generation of instruments (IceCube and Km3Net). It will be shown also, that galactic binary systems could be promising sources of HE ν\nu -s. In particular, ν\nu-s and γ\gamma-rays from Cygnus X-3 will be discussed during recent gamma-ray activity, showing that in the future such kind of activities could produce detectable flux of HE ν\nu-s

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@article{arxiv.1512.02333,
  title  = {Galactic sources of high energy neutrinos: Expectation from gamma-ray data},
  author = {N. Sahakyan},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1512.02333},
  year   = {2016}
}

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Proceedings of RICAP-14 "The Roma International Conference on Astroparticle Physics", Noto (Italy) Oct. 2014