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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

Neutrino observatories such as IceCube, Cubic Kilometre Neutrino Telescope (KM3NeT), and Super-Kamiokande cover a broad energy range that enables the study of both atmospheric neutrinos and astrophysical neutrinos. IceCube and KM3NeT focus…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-31 Shiqi Yu

The IceCube Collaboration has recently reported the observation of a flux of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. The angular distribution of events is consistent with an isotropic arrival direction of neutrinos which is expected for an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Markus Ahlers , Francis Halzen

We discuss recent results in neutrino astronomy and their implications for the cosmic-ray acceleration in relativistic outflows, such as in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) jets, Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs), and Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs). We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-09 Walter Winter

The blazar TXS 0506+056 has been the first astrophysical source associated with high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, and it has emerged as the second-most-prominent hotspot in the neutrino sky over ten years of observations. Although…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Federico Testagrossa , Maria Petropoulou , Walter Winter

A population of binary stellar-mass black hole (BBH) mergers are believed to occur embedded in the accretion disk of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In this {\em Letter}, we demonstrate that the jets from these BBH mergers can propagate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-21 Jin-Ping Zhu

Quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are a class of X-ray flaring phenomena that occur at the centers of galactic nuclei and are likely to arise from repeated interactions between a star and an accretion disk. This work investigates whether such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-05 Zhi-peng Ma , Kai Wang

The origin of the astrophysical high-energy neutrinos discovered by IceCube is currently a major mystery. The recent detection of IceCube-170922A, a $\sim$300 TeV neutrino potentially correlated with the flaring $\gamma$-ray source TXS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-19 C. Righi , F. Tavecchio , S. Inoue

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

Recent multimessenger studies have provided evidence for high-energy neutrino sources that are opaque to GeV-TeV gamma rays. We present model-independent studies on the connection between neutrinos and gamma rays in the active galaxy NGC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-04 Kohta Murase

IceCube discovered a flux of cosmic neutrinos originating in extragalactic sources with an energy density close to that in gamma rays and cosmic rays. A multimessenger campaign triggered by the coincident observation of a gamma-ray flare…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-23 Francis Halzen

Despite the uncovered association of a high-energy neutrino with the apparent flaring state of blazar TXS 0506+056 in 2017, the mechanisms leading to astrophysical particle acceleration and neutrino production are still uncertain. Recent…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-28 Emma Kun , Imre Bartos , Julia Becker Tjus , Peter L. Biermann , Francis Halzen , György Mező

We consider implications of high-energy neutrino emission from blazar flares, including the recent event IceCube-170922A and the 2014-2015 neutrino flare that could originate from TXS 0506+056. First, we discuss their contribution to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-11 Kohta Murase , Foteini Oikonomou , Maria Petropoulou

In ten years of observations, the IceCube neutrino observatory has revealed a neutrino sky in tension with previous expectations for neutrino point source emissions. Astrophysical objects associated with hadronic processes might act as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-24 Alina Kochocki , Volodymyr Takhistov , Alexander Kusenko , Nathan Whitehorn

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…

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

We present a comprehensive multi-messenger study of NGC 1068, the prototype Seyfert II galaxy recently associated with high-energy IceCube neutrinos. Various aspects of the source, including its nuclear activity, jet, outflow, and starburst…

Long duration gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the least understood astrophysical transients powering the high-energy universe. To date, various mechanisms have been proposed to explain the observed electromagnetic GRB emission. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 Tetyana Pitik , Irene Tamborra , Maria Petropoulou

Jets associated with Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have been observed for almost a century, initially at optical and radio wavelengths. They are now widely accepted as "exhausts" produced electromagnetically by the central, spinning, massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-25 R. Blandford , W. East , K. Nalewajko , Y. Yuan , J. Zrake

Mysteries about the origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos have deepened by the recent IceCube measurement of a large diffuse flux in the 10-100 TeV range. Based on the standard disk-corona picture of active galactic nuclei (AGN), we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-11 Kohta Murase , Shigeo S. Kimura , Peter Meszaros
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