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The field of high-energy neutrino astronomy is undergoing a rapid evolution. After the discovery of a diffuse flux of astrophysical TeV-PeV neutrinos in 2013, the IceCube observatory has recently found first compelling evidence for neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Markus Ahlers

Recently the IceCube collaboration and 15 other collaborations reported the spatial and temporal coincidence between the neutrino event IceCube-170922A and the radio-TeV activity of the blazar TXS 0506+056. Their further analysis on 9.5…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-28 Yun-Feng Liang , Hao-Ning He , Neng-Hui Liao , Yu-Liang Xin , Qiang Yuan , Yi-Zhong Fan

The recent observation of NGC 1068 by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has opened a new window to neutrino physics with astrophysical baselines. In this Letter, we propose a new method to probe the nature of neutrino masses using these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-08 Kiara Carloni , Ivan Martinez-Soler , Carlos A. Arguelles , K. S. Babu , P. S. Bhupal Dev

The IceCube detector has recently reported the observation of 28 events at previously unexplored energies. While the statistics of the observed events are still low, these events hint at the existence of a neutrino flux over and above the…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2014-06-24 Atri Bhattacharya , Mary Hall Reno , Ina Sarcevic

Recently, IceCube has observed an excess of astrophysical neutrinos from the Galactic plane. Such a signal may indicate the presence of individual sources or a diffuse neutrino flux from the interactions of Galactic, hadronic cosmic rays.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-10 Alina Kochocki , Dhiti Doddamreddy , Mehr Un Nisa , Steve Sclafani

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

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

Cosmic ray interactions that produce high-energy neutrinos also inevitably generate high-energy gamma rays, which finally contribute to the diffuse high-energy gamma-ray background after they escape the sources. It was recently found that,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-14 Xiang-Yu Wang , Ruo-Yu Liu

With the breakthrough in PeV gamma-ray astronomy brought by the LHAASO experiment, the high-energy sky is getting richer than before. Lately, LHAASO Collaboration reported the observation of a gamma-ray diffuse emission with energy up to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-14 Chengyu Shao , Sujie Lin , Lili Yang

We entertain the possibility that transient astrophysical sources can produce a flux of dark particles that induce ultra-high-energy signatures at neutrino telescopes such as IceCube and KM3NeT. We construct scenarios where such ``dark…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2025-06-23 Yasaman Farzan , Matheus Hostert

Atmospheric neutrinos are produced in air showers, when cosmic ray primaries hit the Earth's atmosphere and interact hadronically. The conventional neutrino flux, which dominates the neutrino data measured in the GeV to TeV range by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Anne Schukraft

The discovery of extraterrestrial very-high-energy neutrinos by the IceCube collaboration has launched a quest for the identification of their astrophysical sources. Gamma-ray blazars have been predicted to yield a cumulative neutrino…

The origin of the high-energy astrophysical neutrinos discovered by IceCube remains largely unknown. Multimessenger studies have indicated that the majority of these neutrinos come from gamma-ray-dark sources. Choked-jet supernovae (cjSNe),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-04 Po-Wen Chang , Bei Zhou , Kohta Murase , Marc Kamionkowski

Astrophysical neutrinos travel long distances from their sources to the Earth traversing dark matter halos of clusters of galaxies and that of our own Milky Way. The interaction of neutrinos with dark matter may affect the flux of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-05-08 Ki-Young Choi , Jongkuk Kim , Carsten Rott

Blazars are promising high-energy neutrino source candidates. However, leptohadronic models face challenges in describing neutrino emission within a viable energy budget, and their predictive power is limited by the commonly used…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-08 Xavier Rodrigues , Frank Rieger , Artem Bohdan , Paolo Padovani

There is mounting evidence that ultra-energetic neutrinos of astrophysical origin may be associated with blazars. Here we investigate a unique sample of 47 blazars, $\sim 20$ of which could be new neutrino sources. In particular, we focus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-21 Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Aldo Treves , Paolo Padovani , Paolo Giommi , Riccardo Scarpa

In recent years, evidence has accumulated that some high-energy cosmic neutrinos can be associated with blazars. The strongest evidence for an individual association was found in the case of the blazar TXS 0506+056 in 2017. In July 2019,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 F. Eppel , M. Kadler , E. Ros , P. Benke , M. Giroletti , J. Hessdoerfer , F. McBride , F. Roesch

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 observed dark matter abundance in the Universe can be explained with non-thermal, heavy dark matter models. In order for dark matter to still be present today, its lifetime has to far exceed the age of the Universe. In these scenarios,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-27 Minjin Jeong

The recent detection of possible neutrino emission from the blazar TXS 0506+056 was the first high-energy neutrino associated with an astrophysical source, making this special type of active galaxies promising neutrino emitters. The fact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-23 O. de Bruijn , I. Bartos , P. L. Biermann , J. Becker Tjus