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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 evidence for multi-messenger photon and neutrino emission from the blazar TXS 0506+056 has demonstrated the importance of realtime follow-up of neutrino events by various ground- and space-based facilities. The effort of H.E.S.S. and…

The recent KM3NeT observation of an ${\cal{O}}(100~{\rm PeV})$ event KM3-230213A is puzzling because IceCube with much larger effective area times exposure has not found any such events. We propose a novel solution to this conundrum in…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-08-07 P. S. Bhupal Dev , Bhaskar Dutta , Aparajitha Karthikeyan , Writasree Maitra , Louis E. Strigari , Ankur Verma

In 2018, the IceCube collaboration reported evidence for the identification of a blazar as an astrophysical neutrino source. That evidence is briefly summarised here before focusing on the prospects of tau neutrino physics in IceCube, both…

High Energy Physics - Experiment · Physics 2019-01-04 Daan van Eijk

Three independent predictions follow from postulating the existence of protons co-accelerated with electrons in extragalactic jets (i) multi-TeV gamma ray emission from nearby blazars, (ii) extragalactic cosmic ray protons up to 10^20 eV,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Karl Mannheim

First evidence of high-energy astrophysical neutrino observation with the IceCube detector from May 2010 to May 2012 is presented. Selecting for high-energy neutrino events with vertices well contained in the detector volume, the analysis…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Naoko Kurahashi

Gamma-ray-bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been one of the most promising source classes of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos detected by IceCube. The first evidence of an IceCube point source was a blazar detected by the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Sam Hori , Abhishek Desai , Justin Vandenbroucke

Microquasar SS433 is composed by a supergiant star that feeds mass through a supercritical accretion disk to a $\sim 10 \ M_\odot$ black hole. The latter launches two oppositely directed jets that precess with a period of $162$ days. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-13 Matías M. Reynoso , Agustín M. Carulli

It has been suggested that the baseline scenario of collisionless cold dark matter over-predicts the numbers of satellite galaxies, as well as the dark matter (DM) densities in galactic centers. This apparent lack of structure at small…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-11-06 John F. Cherry , Alexander Friedland , Ian M. Shoemaker

We propose heavy decaying dark matter (DM) as a new probe of the cosmic neutrino background (C$\nu$B). Heavy DM, with mass $\gtrsim 10^9$ GeV, decaying into neutrinos can be a new source of ultrahigh-energy (UHE) neutrinos. Including this…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2026-02-24 Writasree Maitra , Anna M. Suliga , Vedran Brdar , P. S. Bhupal Dev

Identifying the astrophysical sources responsible for the high-energy cosmic neutrinos has been a longstanding challenge. In a previous work, we report evidence for a spatial correlation between blazars from the 5th Roma-BZCat catalog and…

We present evidence that TXS 0506+056, the first plausible non-stellar neutrino source, despite appearances, is not a blazar of the BL Lac type but is instead a masquerading BL Lac, i.e., intrinsically a flat-spectrum radio quasar with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 P. Padovani , F. Oikonomou , M. Petropoulou , P. Giommi , E. Resconi

The detection of a long flaring activity from blazar TXS 0506+056 in temporal and spatial coincidence with the energetic neutrino IceCube-170922A provided evidence about the photo-hadronic interactions in this source. However, analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-12 Nissim Fraija , Edilberto Aguilar-Ruiz , Antonio Galván-Gámez

Current strategies of indirect Dark Matter detection with neutrino telescopes are based on the search for high-energy neutrinos from the Solar core or from the center of the Earth. Here, we propose a new strategy based on the detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Gianfranco Bertone

The detection of the high-energy neutrino event, IceCube-170922A, demonstrated that multimessenger particle astrophysics triggered by neutrino alerts is feasible. We consider time delay signatures caused by secret neutrino interactions with…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2020-02-03 Kohta Murase , Ian M. Shoemaker

Pinpointing the neutrino sources is crucial to unveil the mystery of high-energy cosmic rays. The search for neutrino-source candidates from coincident neutrino-photon signatures and electromagnetic objects with peculiar flaring behaviors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Yu-Ling Chang , Bruno Arsioli , Wenlian Li , Donglian Xu , Liang Chen

The recent IceCube discovery of 0.1-1 PeV neutrinos of astrophysical origin opens up a new era for high-energy astrophysics. Although there are various astrophysical candidate sources, a firm association of the detected neutrinos with one…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Maria Petropoulou , Stavros Dimitrakoudis , Paolo Padovani , Apostolos Mastichiadis , Elisa Resconi

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov telescope operating at the South Pole. In 2013 IceCube discovered high-energy astrophysical neutrinos and has more recently found compelling evidence for a flaring blazar being a source of high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Federica Bradascio

The potential association between the blazar TXS 0506+056 and the neutrino event IceCube-170922A provides a unique opportunity to study the possible physical connection between the high-energy photons and neutrinos. We explore the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-11 Gang Cao , Chuyuan Yang , Jianping Yang , Jiancheng Wang

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