IceCube Search for Neutrino Emission from X-ray Bright Seyfert Galaxies
High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena
2024-06-13 v1 High Energy Physics - Experiment
Abstract
The recent IceCube detection of TeV neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068 suggests that active galactic nuclei (AGN) could make a sizable contribution to the diffuse flux of astrophysical neutrinos. The absence of TeV -rays from NGC 1068 indicates neutrino production in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole, where the high radiation density leads to -ray attenuation. Therefore, any potential neutrino emission from similar sources is not expected to correlate with high-energy -rays. Disk-corona models predict neutrino emission from Seyfert galaxies to correlate with keV X-rays, as they are tracers of coronal activity. Using through-going track events from the Northern Sky recorded by IceCube between 2011 and 2021, we report results from a search for individual and aggregated neutrino signals from 27 additional Seyfert galaxies that are contained in the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS). Besides the generic single power-law, we evaluate the spectra predicted by the disk-corona model. Assuming all sources to be intrinsically similar to NGC 1068, our findings constrain the collective neutrino emission from X-ray bright Seyfert galaxies in the Northern Hemisphere, but, at the same time, show excesses of neutrinos that could be associated with the objects NGC 4151 and CGCG 420-015. These excesses result in a 2.7 significance with respect to background expectations.
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@article{arxiv.2406.07601,
title = {IceCube Search for Neutrino Emission from X-ray Bright Seyfert Galaxies},
author = {R. Abbasi and M. Ackermann and J. Adams and S. K. Agarwalla and J. A. Aguilar and M. Ahlers and J. M. Alameddine and N. M. Amin and K. Andeen and C. Argüelles and Y. Ashida and S. Athanasiadou and L. Ausborm and S. N. Axani and X. Bai and A. Balagopal V. and M. Baricevic and S. W. Barwick and S. Bash and V. Basu and R. Bay and J. J. Beatty and J. Becker Tjus and J. Beise and C. Bellenghi and C. Benning and S. BenZvi and D. Berley and E. Bernardini and D. Z. Besson and E. Blaufuss and L. Bloom and S. Blot and F. Bontempo and J. Y. Book Motzkin and C. Boscolo Meneguolo and S. Böser and O. Botner and J. Böttcher and J. Braun and B. Brinson and J. Brostean-Kaiser and L. Brusa and R. T. Burley and D. Butterfield and M. A. Campana and I. Caracas and K. Carloni and J. Carpio and S. Chattopadhyay and N. Chau and Z. Chen and D. Chirkin and S. Choi and B. A. Clark and A. Coleman and G. H. Collin and A. Connolly and J. M. Conrad and P. Coppin and R. Corley and P. Correa and D. F. 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Mukherjee and R. Naab and R. Nagai and M. Nakos and U. Naumann and J. Necker and A. Negi and L. Neste and M. Neumann and H. Niederhausen and M. U. Nisa and K. Noda and A. Noell and A. Novikov and A. Obertacke Pollmann and V. O'Dell and B. Oeyen and A. Olivas and R. Orsoe and J. Osborn and E. O'Sullivan and H. Pandya and N. Park and G. K. Parker and E. N. Paudel and L. Paul and C. Pérez de los Heros and T. Pernice and J. Peterson and S. Philippen and A. Pizzuto and M. Plum and A. Pontén and Y. Popovych and M. Prado Rodriguez and B. Pries and R. Procter-Murphy and G. T. Przybylski and C. Raab and J. Rack-Helleis and M. Ravn and K. Rawlins and Z. Rechav and A. Rehman and P. Reichherzer and E. Resconi and S. Reusch and W. Rhode and B. Riedel and A. Rifaie and E. J. Roberts and S. Robertson and S. Rodan and G. Roellinghoff and M. Rongen and A. Rosted and C. Rott and T. Ruhe and L. Ruohan and D. Ryckbosch and I. Safa and J. Saffer and D. Salazar-Gallegos and P. Sampathkumar and A. Sandrock and M. Santander and S. Sarkar and S. Sarkar and J. Savelberg and P. Savina and P. Schaile and M. Schaufel and H. Schieler and S. Schindler and B. Schlüter and F. Schlüter and N. Schmeisser and T. Schmidt and J. Schneider and F. G. Schröder and L. Schumacher and S. Sclafani and D. Seckel and M. Seikh and M. Seo and S. Seunarine and P. Sevle Myhr and R. Shah and S. Shefali and N. Shimizu and M. Silva and B. Skrzypek and B. Smithers and R. Snihur and J. Soedingrekso and A. Søgaard and D. Soldin and P. Soldin and G. Sommani and C. Spannfellner and G. M. Spiczak and C. Spiering and M. Stamatikos and T. Stanev and T. Stezelberger and T. Stürwald and T. Stuttard and G. W. Sullivan and I. Taboada and S. Ter-Antonyan and A. Terliuk and M. Thiesmeyer and W. G. Thompson and J. Thwaites and S. Tilav and K. Tollefson and C. Tönnis and S. Toscano and D. Tosi and A. Trettin and R. Turcotte and J. P. Twagirayezu and M. A. Unland Elorrieta and A. K. Upadhyay and K. Upshaw and A. 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journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2406.07601},
year = {2024}
}
Comments
17 pages, 9 figures