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IceCube observations point to Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) as promising contributors to the observed astrophysical neutrino flux. Close to the central black hole, protons can be accelerated through magnetic reconnection to very high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 D. Karavola , M. Petropoulou , D. F. G. Fiorillo , A. Georgakakis , L. Comisso , L. Sironi

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to be one of the main source candidates for the high-energy (TeV-PeV) cosmic neutrino flux recently discovered by the IceCube neutrino observatory. Nevertheless, several correlation studies between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 G. Maggi , S. Buitink , P. Correa , K. D. de Vries , G. Gentile , J. Leon Tavares , O. Scholten , N. van Eijndhoven , M. Vereecken , T. Winchen

The origin of diffuse high-energy neutrinos from TeV to PeV energies detected by IceCube Observatory remains a mystery. In our previous work, we have shown that hadronuclear (p-p) interactions in AGN jets could be important and generate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-08 Rui Xue , Ze-Rui Wang , Jagdish C. Joshi , Wei-Jian Li

The detection of high-energy neutrinos from NGC 1068 and TXS-0506+56 suggests that active galactic nuclei (AGN) may contribute significantly to the the diffuse neutrino flux measured by IceCube. Using 10 years of publicly available IceCube…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Samyak Jain , Dan Hooper , Francis Halzen

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 origin of the astrophysical neutrino flux reported by the IceCube Collaboration remains an open question. In this study, we use three years of publicly available IceCube data to search for evidence of neutrino emission from the blazars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Daniel Smith , Dan Hooper , Abigail Vieregg

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected high-energy astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range. These neutrinos have an isotropic distribution on the sky, and therefore, likely originate from extragalactic sources. Active Galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Sreetama Goswami , George C. Privon , Marcos Santander

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) can accelerate protons to energies of $\sim$10-100 TeV, with secondary production of high-energy neutrinos. If the acceleration is driven by magnetized turbulence, the main properties of the resulting proton and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Luca Comisso , Enrico Peretti , Maria Petropoulou , Lorenzo Sironi

Aims. We calculate the contribution to the neutrino background from the non-jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) population following the recent IceCube association of TeV neutrinos with NGC 1068. Methods. We exploit our robust knowledge of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-24 P. Padovani , R. Gilli , E. Resconi , C. Bellenghi , F. Henningsen

Recently IceCube collaboration has reported first evidence for the astrophysical neutrinos. Observation corresponds to the total astrophysical neutrino flux of the order of $3 \cdot 10^{-8}$ $GeV/cm^2/s/sr$ in a PeV energy range. Active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Oleg Kalashev , Dmitri Semikoz , Igor Tkachev

Evidence for high-energy astrophysical PeV neutrinos has been found in the IceCube experiment from an analysis with a 7.5 year (2010 - 2017) data. Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most prominent objects in the universe, and are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-08 Rajat K. Dey , Animesh Basak , Sabyasachi Ray

Various observations are revealing the widespread occurrence of fast and powerful winds in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that are distinct from relativistic jets, likely launched from accretion disks and interacting strongly with the gas of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Ruo-Yu Liu , Kohta Murase , Susumu Inoue , Chong Ge , Xiang-Yu Wang

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

High-energy multimessenger background analyses over the past decade have provided evidence for a population of hidden neutrino sources that are opaque to GeV-TeV gamma rays, a picture bolstered by recent observations of the nearby active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Kohta Murase , Shigeo S. Kimura , Mainak Mukhopadhyay , Mukul Bhattacharya

Despite the spectacular discovery of an astrophysical neutrino flux by IceCube in 2013, its origin remains a mystery. Whatever its sources, we expect the neutrino flux to be accompanied by a comparable gamma-ray flux. These photons should…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-02-23 Antonio Capanema , Arman Esmaili , Pasquale Dario Serpico

I show that the high energy neutrino flux predicted to arise from AGN cores can explain the PeV neutrinos detected by Ice Cube without conflicting with the constraints from the observed extragalactic cosmic ray and gamma-ray backgrounds.

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-21 Floyd W. Stecker

We investigate the possibility that radio-bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) are responsible for the TeV--PeV neutrinos detected by IceCube. We use an unbinned maximum-likelihood-ratio method, 10 years of IceCube muon-track data, and 3388…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-23 Bei Zhou , Marc Kamionkowski , Yun-feng Liang

The diffuse flux of cosmic neutrinos has been measured by the IceCube Observatory from TeV to PeV energies. We show that an improved characterization of this flux at the lower energies, TeV and sub-TeV, reveals important information on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Ke Fang , John S. Gallagher , Francis Halzen

The origin of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux measured by the IceCube Observatory remains largely unknown. Although NGC 1068 and TXS 0506+056 have been identified as potential neutrino sources, the diffuse flux of neutrinos must…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-16 K. McDonough , K. Hughes , D. Smith , A. G. Vieregg

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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