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As is well recognized, the supernova explosions produce a great amount of neutrinos, thus we have a strong reason to believe that all violent cosmological events, such as supernova explosions, gamma bursts, black hole merging or neutron…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2018-07-27 Zijian Song , Xue-Qian Li

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory opened the window on neutrino astronomy by discovering high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in 2013 and identifying the first compelling astrophysical neutrino source, the blazar TXS0506+056, in 2017. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-17 Brian Clark

The IceCube Collaboration has observed 37 neutrino events in the energy range $30\, TeV\leq E_{\nu} \leq 2$ PeV and the sources of these neutrinos are unknown. Here we have shown that positions of 12 high energy blazars and the position of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-02 Sarira Sahu , Luis Salvador Miranda

The discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube kicked off a new line of research to identify the electromagnetic counterparts producing these neutrinos. Among the extragalactic sources, active galactic nuclei (AGN), and in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 C. Righi , F. Tavecchio , L. Pacciani

Since the end of the eighties, in response to a reported increase of the total neutrino flux in the Homestake experiment in coincidence with solar flares, neutrino detectors have searched for signals of neutrinos associated with solar flare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-03 G. de Wasseige

We present a generalized neutrino luminosity function for protons accelerated in the X-ray coronae of supermassive black holes in Seyfert-like galaxies. A major uncertainty in assessing the diffuse neutrino contribution of these systems is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-15 Rostom Mbarek

Understanding cosmic acceleration mechanisms, such as jet formation in black holes, star collapses or binary mergers, and the propagation of accelerated particles in the universe is still a `work in progress' and requires a multi-messenger…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Teresa Montaruli

A neutrino-dominated accretion flow (NDAF) around a rotating stellar-mass black hole (BH) is one of the plausible candidates for the central engine of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Two mechanisms, i.e., Blandford-Znajek (BZ) mechanism and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Tong Liu , Shu-Jin Hou , Li Xue , Wei-Min Gu

The detection of a high-energy neutrino from the flaring blazar TXS 0506+056 and the subsequent discovery of a neutrino excess from the same direction have strengthened the hypothesis that blazars are cosmic neutrino sources. The lack,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-27 Apostolos Mastichiadis , Maria Petropoulou

Although many high-energy neutrinos detected by the IceCube telescope are believed to have anextraterrestrial origin, their astrophysical sources remain a mystery. Recently, an unprecedenteddiscovery of a high-energy muon neutrino event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 Ruo-Yu Liu , Kai Wang , Rui Xue , Andrew M. Taylor , Xiang-Yu Wang , Zhuo Li , Huirong Yan

The detection of a high energy muon neutrino on 22 September 2017 by IceCube neutrino detector coincides with the multiwavelength flaring from the BL Lac object TXS 0506+056, most likely confirming AGN as a source of high energy cosmic rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-05 Sarira Sahu , Carlos Eduardo Lopez Fortin , Shigehiro Nagataki

The recent spatial and temporal coincidence of the blazar TXS 0506+056 with the IceCube detected neutrino event IC-170922A has opened up a realm of multi-messenger astronomy with blazar jets as a plausible site of cosmic-ray acceleration.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-09 Vaidehi S. Paliya , M. Böttcher , A. Olmo-García , A. Domínguez , A. Gil de Paz , A. Franckowiak , S. Garrappa , R. Stein

The IceCube collaboration has identified neutrinos of energy $\sim 10-100$ TeV from the blazar TXS 0506+056 and the active galaxy NGC 1068, which must have traveled through a dense dark matter spike surrounding the supermassive black holes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-01 James M. Cline

The IceCube project transformed a cubic kilometer of transparent, natural Antarctic ice into a Cherenkov detector. It discovered neutrinos of TeV-PeV energy originating beyond our Galaxy with an energy flux that exceeds the one of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-15 Francis Halzen

Merging of stellar-mass binary black holes (BBH) could take place within the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGN). The resulting BH remnant is likely to accrete the disk gas at a super-Eddington rate, launching a fast,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Zhi-Peng Ma , Kai Wang

Most active galactic nuclei (AGN) lack prominent jets, and show modest radio emission and significant X-ray emission which arises mainly from the galactic core, very near from the central black hole. We use a quantitative scenario of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Peter Meszaros

The IceCube collaboration has observed the first steady-state point source of high-energy neutrinos, coming from the active galaxy NGC 1068. If neutrinos interacted strongly enough with dark matter, the emitted neutrinos would have been…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2023-06-14 James M. Cline , Matteo Puel

In this work we use a multi-messenger approach to determine if the high energy diffuse neutrino flux observed by the IceCube Observatory can originate from $\gamma$-ray sources powered by Cosmic Rays interactions with gas. Typical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-11 Andrea Palladino , Anatoli Fedynitch , Rasmus W. Rasmussen , Andrew M. Taylor

Neutrinos from blazars can originate from inelastic scatterings between protons within their jets and sub-GeV dark matter (DM) around them, explaining IceCube detections of neutrinos from TXS 0506+056 that are otherwise challenging for…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-01-13 Andrea Giovanni De Marchi , Alessandro Granelli , Jacopo Nava , Filippo Sala

The diffuse neutrino flux measured in IceCube is comparable with the ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) flux, which has led to the concept of a unified origin of high-energy neutrino and UHECR backgrounds. We construct a generic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-28 Shigeru Yoshida , Kohta Murase