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We discuss the possibility that the PeV neutrinos recently observed by IceCube are produced by the interactions of extragalactic cosmic rays during their propagation through the radiation backgrounds. We show that the fluxes resulting from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Esteban Roulet , Guenter Sigl , Arjen van Vliet , Silvia Mollerach

We examine the potential multi-messenger role of BL Lac objects emitting at high energy (so-called HBL) focusing on the limits on the energy density of soft radiation in the jet frame, a critical parameter which regulates the proton cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 F. Tavecchio , F. Oikonomou , C. Righi

We argue that the excess of sub-PeV/PeV neutrinos recently reported by IceCube could plausibly originate through pion-production processes in the same sources responsible for cosmic rays (CRs) with energy above the second knee around…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-04-23 Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang , Susumu Inoue , Roland Crocker , Felix Aharonian

The observed very high energy spectra of distant blazars are well described by secondary gamma rays produced in line-of-sight interactions of cosmic rays with background photons. In the absence of the cosmic-ray contribution, one would not…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-07-29 Oleg E. Kalashev , Alexander Kusenko , Warren Essey

While active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets have long been prime candidates for the origin of extragalactic cosmic rays and neutrinos, the BL Lac object TXS 0506+056 is the first astrophysical source observed to be associated with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 M. Cerruti , A. Zech , C. Boisson , G. Emery , S. Inoue , J. -P. Lenain

High-energy astrophysical neutrinos have been observed by several telescopes in the last decade, but their sources still remained unknown. We address the problem of locating astrophysical neutrinos' sources in a statistical manner. We show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-17 A. V. Plavin , Y. Y. Kovalev , Y. A. Kovalev , S. V. Troitsky

We investigate the high-energy neutrino emission expected from newly born magnetars surrounded by their stellar ejecta. Protons might be accelerated up to 0.1-100 EeV energies possibly by, e.g., the wave dissipation in the winds, leading to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-14 Kohta Murase , Peter Meszaros , Bing Zhang

The diffuse background of very high energy extra-terrestrial neutrinos recently discovered with IceCube is compatible with that expected from cosmic ray interactions in the Galactic interstellar medium plus that expected from hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-11 Shlomo Dado , Arnon Dar

Cosmogenic neutrinos originate from photo-hadronic interactions of cosmic ray protons with the cosmic microwave background (CMB). The neutrino production rate can be constrained through the accompanying electrons, positrons and gamma-rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-01-10 M. Ahlers , L. A. Anchordoqui , M. C. Gonzalez-Garcia , F. Halzen , Subir Sarkar

The origins of the diffuse flux of cosmogenic PeV neutrinos detected in the IceCube experiment during 2010 - 2017 remain unidentified. A population of extragalactic newly born fast spinning pulsars are investigated as possible candidates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-09 Rajat K. Dey , Animesh Basak , Sabyasachi Ray , Tamal Sarkar

Eight years after the first detection of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube we are still almost clueless as regards to their origin, although the case for blazars being neutrino sources is getting stronger. After the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 P. Padovani , P. Giommi , R. Falomo , F. Oikonomou , M. Petropoulou , T. Glauch , E. Resconi , A. Treves , S. Paiano

High-energy neutrinos are detected by the IceCube Observatory in the direction of NGC 1068, the archetypical type II Seyfert galaxy. The neutrino flux, surprisingly, is more than an order of magnitude higher than the $\gamma$-ray upper…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-03 Ke Fang , Enrique Lopez Rodriguez , Francis Halzen , John S. Gallagher

The energy spectrum of high-energy neutrinos reported by the IceCube collaboration shows a dip between 400 TeV and 1 PeV. One intriguing explanation is that high-energy neutrinos scatter with the cosmic neutrino background through a $\sim$…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2015-12-16 Ayuki Kamada , Hai-Bo Yu

We study high-energy neutrino production in collimated jets inside progenitors of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and supernovae, considering both collimation and internal shocks. We obtain simple, useful constraints, using the often overlooked…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-23 Kohta Murase , Kunihito Ioka

Models of blazar jets, that explain observations of their photon spectra, typically predict too few neutrinos to be possibly seen by existing telescopes. In particular, they fall short in reproducing the first neutrino ever detected from a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Andrea Giovanni De Marchi , Alessandro Granelli , Jacopo Nava , Filippo Sala

Bright blazars were found to be prominent neutrino sources, and a number of IceCube events were associated with them. Evaluating high-energy photon emission of such blazars is crucial for better understanding of the processes and regions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-04 A. V. Plavin , R. A. Burenin , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. A. Lutovinov , A. A. Starobinsky , S. V. Troitsky , E. I. Zakharov

The prompt emission mechanism of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) is a long-standing open question, and GRBs have been considered as potential sources of high-energy neutrinos. Despite many years of search for the neutrino events associated with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-26 Yang-Dong-Jun Ou , Hou-Jun Lü , Xue-Zhao Chang , Xiao-Xuan Liu , En-Wei Liang

Any interpretation of the astrophysical neutrinos discovered by IceCube must accommodate a variety of multimessenger constraints. We address implications of these neutrinos being produced in transient sources, principally if buried within…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-04 Matthew D. Kistler , Hasan Yuksel

The origin of the TeV--PeV astrophysical neutrinos seen by the IceCube telescope is unknown. If they are made in proton-photon interactions in astrophysical sources, their spectrum may show bump-like features. We search for such features in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Mauricio Bustamante

The origin of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux observed by the IceCube experiment is still under debate. In recent years there have been associations of neutrino events with individual blazars, which are active galaxies with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 Xavier Rodrigues , Vaidehi S. Paliya , Simone Garrappa , Anastasiia Omeliukh , Anna Franckowiak , Walter Winter