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High energy neutrinos with energy typically greater than tens of thousands of GeV may originate from several astrophysical sources. The sources may include, for instance, our galaxy, the active centers of nearby galaxies, as well as…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2007-05-23 H. Athar

Constraints on the dynamics, dissipation, and production of VHE neutrinos in relativistic jets are derived using opacity calculations and VHE $\gamma$-ray observations. In particular, it is demonstrated how rapid variability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-17 Amir Levinson

Blazars are among the most powerful steady sources in the Universe. Multi-messenger searches for blazars have traditionally focused on their gamma-ray emission, which can be produced simultaneously with neutrinos in photohadronic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-20 Ankur Sharma , Erin O'Sullivan

With the discovery of a high-energy neutrino flux in the 0.1 PeV to PeV range from beyond the Earth's atmosphere with the IceCube detector, neutrino astronomy has achieved a major breakthrough in the exploration of the high-energy universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. Kappes

Astronomy at the highest energies observed must be performed by studying neutrinos rather than photons because the universe is opaque to photons of these energies. By making observations of neutrinos with energies above 10 EeV one can…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. B. Cline , F. W. Stecker

Blazars are jetted active galactic nuclei with a jet pointing close to the line of sight, hence enhancing their intrinsic luminosity and variability. Monitoring these sources is essential in order to catch them flaring and promptly organize…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 Jean-Philippe Lenain

We introduce neutrino astronomy starting 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 a century, we…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. Halzen

IceCube has detected a cumulative flux of PeV neutrinos, which origin is unknown. Blazars, active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointing to us, are long and widely expected to be one of the strong candidates of high energy neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 B. Theodore Zhang , Zhuo Li

Various aspects of the high-energy emission from relativistic jets associated wi th compact astrophysical systems are reviewed. The main leptonic and hadronic processes responsible for the production of high-energy $\gamma$-rays, very-high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Amir Levinson

Blazars have been suggested as possible neutrino sources long before the recent IceCube discovery of high-energy neutrinos. We re-examine this possibility within a new framework built upon the blazar simplified view and a self-consistent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 P. Padovani , M. Petropoulou , P. Giommi , E. Resconi

Multi-messenger data suggest that radio galaxies (i.e. non-blazar active galaxies) are perhaps the most likely class of sources for the diffuse flux of high-energy neutrinos reported by the IceCube Collaboration. In this study, we consider…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-30 Carlos Blanco , Dan Hooper

We discuss the possibility that microquasar jets may be powerful emitters of TeV neutrinos. We estimate the neutrino fluxes produced by photopion production in the jets of a sample of identified microquasars and microquasar candidates, for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. Guetta , C. Distefano , A. Levinson , E. Waxman

We test the recently proposed idea that outflows associated with Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) could be neutrino emitters in two complementary ways. First, we cross-correlate a list of 94 "bona fide" AGN outflows with the most complete and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 P. Padovani , A. Turcati , E. Resconi

The origin of the high-energy astrophysical neutrinos discovered by IceCube remains unclear, with both blazars and Seyfert galaxies emerging as potential sources. Recently, the IceCube Collaboration reported a ${\sim}{3}\sigma$ neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-28 Anastasiia Omeliukh , Samuel Barnier , Yoshiyuki Inoue

The physical nature of the mechanism responsible for the emission of neutrinos in active galactic nuclei (AGN) has been matter of debate in the literature, with relativistic jets of radio-loud AGNs as possible candidates to be the sources…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-17 Viktor Y. D. Sumida , André de A. Schutzer , Anderson Caproni , Zulema Abraham

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

The origin of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos remains a key open question in multimessenger astrophysics. A correlation between unabsorbed hard X-ray emission and high-energy neutrino luminosity has been reported in a sample of six…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Emma Kun , Imre Bartos , Claudio Ricci , Santiago del Palacio , Francis Halzen , Julia Becker Tjus , Peter L. Biermann , Anna Franckowiak

In order to facilitate the identification of possible new physics signatures in neutrino telescopes, such as neutrinos from the annihilation of neutralinos or decaying relics, it is essential to gain full control over the astrophysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Karl Mannheim

The KM3NeT collaboration has reported the detection of the highest energy neutrino event observed to date. The energy of the event is of the order of 220 PeV hinting towards a neutrino flux at the highest energies. In this article, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-19 The KM3NeT Collaboration

IceCube is the first representative of the km^3 class of neutrino telescopes and currently the most sensitive detector to high-energy neutrinos. Its main mission is to search for Galactic and extragalactic sources of high-energy neutrinos,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Alexander Kappes