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Absorption and emission lines in the optical spectrum are typically used to investigate the presence of large-scale environments in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). BL Lac objects - which are a category of AGNs with the relativistic jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-11 Luca Foffano , Matteo Cerruti , Valerio Vittorini

Recently the Fermi-LAT data have revealed two gamma-ray emitting bubble-shaped structures at the Galactic center. If the observed gamma rays have hadronic origin (collisions of accelerated protons), the bubbles must emit high energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-06 Cecilia Lunardini , Soebur Razzaque

We explore possible physical origin of correlation between radio wave and very-high-energy neutrino emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN), suggested by recently reported evidence for correlation between neutrino arrival directions and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-03 Andrii Neronov , Dmitry Semikoz

Models of the origin of astrophysical neutrinos with energies from TeVs to PeVs are strongly constrained by multimessenger observations and population studies. Recent results point to statistically significant associations between these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 O. E. Kalashev , P. Kivokurtseva , S. Troitsky

The undisputed galactic origin of cosmic rays at energies below the so-called knee implies an existence of a nonthemal population of galactic objects which effectively accelerate protons and nuclei to TeV-PeV energies. The distinct…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Felix Aharonian

It is often stated that the observation of high-energy neutrinos from an astrophysical source would constitute a smoking gun for the acceleration of hadronic cosmic rays. Here, we point out that there exists a purely leptonic mechanism to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-22 Dan Hooper , Kathryn Plant

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

The production of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos is tightly linked to the emission of hadronic gamma-rays. I will discuss the recent observation of TeV to PeV neutrinos by the IceCube Cherenkov telescope in the context of gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-03 Markus Ahlers

High-energy neutrinos are traditionally regarded as unambiguous signatures of hadronic cosmic rays in astrophysical environments. Here we show that TeV neutrinos can instead be produced by energetic electrons through purely electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 Arunava Bhadra , Prabir Banik

The recent discovery of high-energy cosmic neutrinos by the IceCube neutrino observatory opens up a new field in physics, the field of neutrino astronomy. Using the IceCube neutrino detector we plan to search for high-energy neutrinos…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-16 G. Maggi , S. Buitink , P. Correa , K. D. de Vries , G. Gentile , O. Scholten , N. van Eijndhoven

The recent detection of TeV neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068 by IceCube suggests that AGN could make a sizable contribution to the total high-energy cosmic neutrino flux. The absence of TeV gamma rays from NGC 1068,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-02 Theo Glauch , Ali Kheirandish , Tomas Kontrimas , Qinrui Liu , Hans Niederhausen

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

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) have been suggested to be sources of very high energy neutrinos. We consider the possibility of using AGN neutrinos to test neutrino mixings. From the atmospheric, solar and laboratory data on neutrino…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2010-12-03 Luis Bento , Petteri Keränen , Jukka Maalampi

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are a promising source for high-energy astrophysical neutrinos (HEANs). By the end of 2022, the Vera C. Rubin Observatory (VRO) will begin to observe $\gtrsim10$ million AGN with a regular and high cadence.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-13 Cyril Creque-Sarbinowski , Marc Kamionkowski , Bei Zhou

With the coincident detection of a gamma-ray flare and a neutrino from the blazar TXS 0506+056, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have been put into focus as possible sources of the diffuse neutrino flux. We present a space and time-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Mario R. Hoerbe , Paul J. Morris , Garret Cotter , Julia Becker Tjus

We test the recently proposed idea that outflows associated with Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) could be neutrino emitters in two complementary ways. First, we cross-correlate a list of 94 "bona fide" AGN outflows with the most complete and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-25 P. Padovani , A. Turcati , E. Resconi

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

Most active galactic nuclei (AGN) lack prominent jets, and show modest radio emission and significant X-ray emission which arises mainly from the galactic core, very near from the central black hole. We use a quantitative scenario of such…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jaime Alvarez-Muñiz , Peter Meszaros

The sources responsible for the emission of high-energy ($\gtrsim$ 100 TeV) neutrinos detected by IceCube are still unknown. Among the possible candidates, active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets are often examined, since the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 F. Tavecchio , C. Righi , A. Capetti , P. Grandi , G. Ghisellini

The diffuse Galactic $\gamma$-ray emission originates from the interactions between cosmic rays and the interstellar medium or radiation fields within our Galaxy, where the production of neutrinos is also anticipated. Recently, the Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-28 Wenlian Li , Tian-Qi Huang , Donglian Xu , Huihai He