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Possible Neutrino Emission from the Pulsar Wind Nebula G63.7+1.1

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-07-29 v1

Abstract

We report on our finding of an excess of 5415+1654^{+16}_{-15} neutrinos at the location of the pulsar wind nebula (PWN) G63.7+1.1. By analyzing the IceCube track-like neutrino data for a group of 14 PWNe, which are selected as the targets because of their reportedly association with molecular clouds, G63.7+1.1 is found to be the only one detected with neutrino emission and the post-trail significance for the detection is 3.2σ\sigma. Previously, this PWN was estimated to have an age of \gtrsim8\,kyr, contain a candidate pulsar detected in X-rays, and have a distance of \sim6\,kpc. More importantly and related to the PWN's possible neutrino emission, surrounding molecular materials are seen to interact with the PWN. On the basis of these properties, we examine the proton-proton interactions as the process for the neutrino production. The PWN (or the pulsar) can collectively provide sufficient energy to power the required high-energy (HE) protons. This possibly first neutrino-emitting case in our Galaxy, with problems or other possibilities to be solved or examined, may reveal to us that PWNe are the significant Galactic HE neutrino sources.

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@article{arxiv.2507.19724,
  title  = {Possible Neutrino Emission from the Pulsar Wind Nebula G63.7+1.1},
  author = {Shunhao Ji and Zhongxiang Wang and Dong Zheng and Jintao Zheng},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2507.19724},
  year   = {2025}
}

Comments

11 pages, 4 figures, 3 tables, accepted for publication in ApJ