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Ultra-Luminous Infrared Galaxies (ULIRGs) are the most luminous objects in the infrared sky. With infrared luminosities exceeding $10^{12}$ solar luminosities, ULIRGs contain strong star formation regions which could power hadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 P. Correa , K. D. de Vries , N. van Eijndhoven

High energy neutrino astrophysics has come of age with the discovery by IceCube of neutrinos in the TeV to PeV energy range attributable to extragalactic sources at cosmological distances. At such energies, astrophysical neutrinos must have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-11 P. Meszaros

The most extreme active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the radio active ones whose relativistic jet propagates close to our line of sight. These objects were first classified according to their emission line features into flat-spectrum radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-08 Jesus M. Rueda-Becerril , Amanda O. Harrison , Dimitrios Giannios

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

The undisputed galactic origin of cosmic rays at energies below the so-called knee implies an existence of a nonthemal population of galactic objects which effectively accelerate protons and nuclei to TeV-PeV energies. The distinct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Felix Aharonian

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has recently found compelling evidence for a particular blazar producing high-energy neutrinos and $\mathrm{PeV}$ cosmic rays, however the sources of cosmic rays above several $\mathrm{EeV}$ remain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-27 Lisa Schumacher

The blazars are one of the leading candidate sources of high-energy neutrinos. Recently, two blazars have been found to be temporally and spatially correlated with some IceCube high-energy neutrino events. The two blazars, GB6 J2113+1121…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-08 Xiong Jiang , Neng-Hui Liao , Xue Rui , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

High-energy astrophysical neutrinos serve as crucial messengers for understanding hadronic acceleration processes and identifying the origins of cosmic rays, with blazars among the most promising neutrino sources. The KM3NeT experiment…

Non-blazar Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have emerged as a new gamma-ray emitting source class on the extragalactic sky and started to deepen our understanding of the physical processes and the nature of AGN in general. The detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-10 Frank M. Rieger

The origin of diffuse high-energy neutrinos from TeV to PeV energies detected by IceCube Observatory remains a mystery. In our previous work, we have shown that hadronuclear (p-p) interactions in AGN jets could be important and generate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-08 Rui Xue , Ze-Rui Wang , Jagdish C. Joshi , Wei-Jian Li

This review describes telescopes designed to study neutrinos from astrophysical sources. These sources include the Sun and Supernovae emitting neutrino energies up to tens of MeV, atmospheric neutrino sources caused by cosmic ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 A. B. McDonald , C. Spiering , S. Schoenert , E. T. Kearns , T. Kajita

The energy density of cosmic neutrinos measured by IceCube matches the one observed by Fermi in extragalactic photons that predominantly originate in blazars. This has inspired attempts to match Fermi sources with IceCube neutrinos. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-10 Francis Halzen , Ali Kheirandish

Blazars are active galactic nuclei (AGN) whose relativistic jets point nearly to the line of sight. Their compact radio structure can be imaged with very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) on parsec scales. Blazars at extremely high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-12 H. -M. Cao , S. Frey , K. É. Gabányi , Z. Paragi , J. Yang , D. Cseh , X. -Y. Hong , T. An

We introduce neutrino astronomy from the observational fact that Nature accelerates protons and photons to energies in excess of 10^{20} and 10^{13} eV, respectively. Although the discovery of cosmic rays dates back close to a century, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 F. Halzen

Tensions between the diffuse gamma-ray sky observed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the diffuse high-energy neutrino sky detected by the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory question our knowledge about high-energy neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 Emma Kun , Imre Bartos , Julia Becker Tjus , Peter L. Biermann , Anna Franckowiak , Francis Halzen , György Mező

This is a review of high energy neutrino astronomy that might be done with a kilometer-scale detector. The emphasis is on diffuse neutrinos of extragalactic origin and their relation to possible sources of the highest energy cosmic rays,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 T. K. Gaisser

At highest energy edges Ultra High Energy Cosmic Ray, (UHECR) and PeVs neutrino (UHE neutrino), should soon offer new exciting astronomy. The fast and somehow contradictory growth of hundred of antagonist models shows the explosive vitality…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-14 Daniele Fargion

Identifying the most likely sources for high-energy neutrino emission has been one of the main topics in high-energy astrophysics ever since the first observation of high-energy neutrinos by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory. Active galactic…

We present an argument that radio galaxies (active galaxies with mis-aligned jets) are likely to be the primary sources of the high-energy astrophysical neutrinos observed by IceCube. In particular, if the gamma-ray emission observed from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-21 Dan Hooper

Relativistic jets in AGN in general, and in blazars in particular, are the most energetic and among the most powerful astrophysical objects known so far. Their relativistic nature provides them with the ability to emit profusely at all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-09 Ivan Agudo , Alan P. Marscher , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Jose L. Gomez