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Upcoming neutrino telescopes may discover ultra-high-energy (UHE) cosmic neutrinos, with energies beyond 100 PeV, in the next 10-20 years. Finding their sources would identify guaranteed sites of interaction of UHE cosmic rays, whose origin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-14 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Mauricio Bustamante , Victor B. Valera

Neutrinos at energies ranging from sub-TeV to EeV from astrophysical sources can yield interesting physical information about fundamental interactions, about cosmic rays and about the nature of the sources and their environment. Gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-09 P. Meszaros , S. Razzaque

The origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos is one of the biggest mysteries in astroparticle physics. The fact that diffuse intensities of high-energy neutrinos, ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays, and GeV-TeV gamma rays are all comparable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-17 Kohta Murase

The main goal of the construction of large volume, high energy neutrino telescopes is the detection of extra-Galactic neutrino sources. The existence of such sources is implied by observations of ultra-high energy, >10^{19} eV, cosmic-rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Eli Waxman

High-energy neutrino telescopes such as IceCube or KM3NeT issue public alerts describing the characteristics of possible astrophysical high-energy neutrino events. This information, particularly with respect to the arrival direction and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-22 Thierry Pradier

Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) power active galactic nuclei (AGN). The vicinity of the SMBH has long been proposed as the potential site of particle acceleration and neutrino production. Recently, IceCube reported evidence of neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Shiqi Yu , Ali Kheirandish , Qinrui Liu , Hans Niederhausen

The discovery of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube kicked off a new line of research to identify the electromagnetic counterparts producing these neutrinos. Among the extragalactic sources, active galactic nuclei (AGN), and in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-13 C. Righi , F. Tavecchio , L. Pacciani

The origin of the bulk of the high-energy astrophysical neutrinos seen by IceCube, with TeV--PeV energies, is unknown. If they are made in photohadronic, i.e., proton-photon, interactions in astrophysical sources, this may manifest as a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Mauricio Bustamante

The discovery of ultra-high-energy neutrinos, with energies above 100 PeV, may soon be within reach of upcoming neutrino telescopes. We present a robust framework to compute the statistical significance of point-source discovery via the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-01 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Mauricio Bustamante , Victor B. Valera

Galactic supernova remnants (SNRs) are thought to accelerate cosmic rays (CRs) to several PeV energies, but this has yet to be confirmed as general behavior. Although several sources show ~100 TeV gamma rays, their hadronic origin is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-10 Emily Simon , Rebecca Diesing , Damiano Caprioli , Stephen Sclafani

Instrumenting a gigaton of ice at the geographic South Pole, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has been at the forefront of groundbreaking scientific discoveries over the past decade. These include the observation of a flux of TeV-PeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-07 Tianlu Yuan

We study high energy neutrino emission from relativistic jets launched by a black hole (BH) spiraling-in inside the envelope of a red supergiant (RSG), and find that such common envelope jets supernovae (CEJSNe) are a potential source for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Aldana Grichener , Noam Soker

The exact sources of high-energy neutrinos detected by the IceCube neutrino observatory still remain a mystery. For the first time, this work explores the hypothesis that galaxy mergers may serve as sources for these high-energy neutrinos.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-25 Subhadip Bouri , Priyank Parashari , Mousumi Das , Ranjan Laha

The observation of high-energy neutrinos from the direction of the nearby active galaxy, NGC 1068, was a major step in identifying the origin of high-energy cosmic neutrinos. The multimessenger data imply that high-energy neutrinos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-27 Jose Alonso Carpio , Ali Kheirandish , Kohta Murase

More than a decade ago, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory discovered a diffuse flux of 10 TeV-10 PeV neutrinos from our Universe. This flux of unknown origin most likely emanates from an extragalactic population of neutrino sources, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-03 Kathrine Mørch Groth , Markus Ahlers

The possible connection between high energy neutrinos in the energy region above 100 TeV and ultrahigh energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at energies above $10^{19}$ eV motivates multi-messenger observation approaches involving neutrinos and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-25 Shigeru Yoshida

The IceCube neutrino observatory detected two distinct flares of high-energy neutrinos from the direction of the blazar TXS 0506+056: a $\sim 300$ TeV single neutrino on September 22, 2017 and a $3.5\sigma$ signature of a dozen TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-04 Ilja Jaroschewski , Julia Becker Tjus , Armin Ghorbanietemad , Imre Bartos , Emma Kun , Peter L. Biermann

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 IceCube collaboration discovery of 28 high-energy neutrinos over the energy range 30 TeV <~ E_nu <~ 1 PeV, a 4.3-sigma excess over expected backgrounds, represents the first high-confidence detection of cosmic neutrinos at these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-21 D. B. Fox , K. Kashiyama , P. Meszaros

The collected data of IceCube, a cubic kilometre neutrino detector array in the Antarctic ice, reveal a diffuse flux of astrophysical neutrinos. The extragalactic sources of the majority of these neutrinos however have yet to be discovered.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-31 Jannis Necker