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Recently we have shown that high-energy neutrinos above 200 TeV detected by IceCube are produced within several parsecs in the central regions of radio-bright blazars, that is active galactic nuclei with jets pointing towards us. To…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-22 A. V. Plavin , Y. Y. Kovalev , Y. A. Kovalev , S. V. Troitsky

High-energy (TeV-PeV) cosmic neutrinos are expected to be produced in extremely energetic astrophysical sources such as active galactic nuclei. The IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole has recently detected a diffuse astrophysical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Donglian Xu

Mounting evidence suggests that the TeV-PeV neutrino flux detected by the IceCube telescope has mainly an extragalactic origin. If such neutrinos are primarily produced by a single class of astrophysical sources via hadronuclear ($pp$)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-30 Shin'ichiro Ando , Irene Tamborra , Fabio Zandanel

We explored the expected properties of the neutrino emission from accreting neutron stars in X-ray binaries using numerical simulations. The simulations are based on a model in which neutrinos are produced by the decay of charged pions and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-15 L. Ducci , E. Perinati , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , M. Nikołajuk , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki

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

Astrophysical neutrinos can be produced in proton interactions of charged cosmic rays with ambient photon or baryonic fields. Cosmic rays are observed in balloon, satellite and air shower experiments every day, from below 1e9 eV up to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-18 Julia K. Becker

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

Microquasars, compact binary systems with an accreting stellar-mass black hole or neutron star, are promising candidates for high-energy particle acceleration. Recently, the LHAASO collaboration reported on the detection of $>100$ TeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-21 Jose Carpio , Ali Kheirandish , Bing Zhang

Powerful jets and outflows generated in tidal disruption events (TDEs) around supermassive black holes have been suggested to be possible sites producing high-energy neutrinos, but it is unclear whether such environment can provide the bulk…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 Lixin Dai , Ke Fang

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

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 origin of Petaelectronvolt (PeV) astrophysical neutrinos is fundamental to our understanding of the high-energy Universe. Apart from the technical challenges of operating detectors deep below ice, oceans, and lakes, the phenomenological…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-05 I. Liodakis , T. Hovatta , V. Pavlidou , A. C. S. Readhead , R. D. Blandford , S. Kiehlmann , E. Lindfors , W. Max-Moerbeck , T. J. Pearson , M. Petropoulou

The Fermi $\gamma$-ray space telescope reported the observation of several Galactic supernova remnants recently, with the $\gamma$-ray spectra well described by hadronic $pp$ collisions. The possible neutrino emissions from these Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-17 Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Xiao-Jun Bi

The nearly isotropic distribution of the TeV-PeV neutrinos recently detected by IceCube suggests that they come from sources at distance beyond our Galaxy, but how far they are is largely unknown due to lack of any associations with known…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-07-20 Xiao-Chuan Chang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Xiang-Yu Wang

We consider a class of plerions that have been detected in the TeV range, and investigate the possibility that the emission is due to \pi^0 decay. From the TeV flux we derive what is the expected \nu flux at Earth and find that this is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Dafne Guetta , Elena Amato

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

We review and clarify the assumptions of our basic model for neutrino production in the cores of quasars, as well as those modifications to the model subsequently made by other workers. We also present a revised estimate of the neutrino…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-15 F. W. Stecker , M. H. Salamon

The existence of astrophysical neutrinos with energies of tens of TeV and higher has been reliably established by the IceCube experiment; the first confirmations of this discovery are being obtained with the ANTARES and Baikal-GVD…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-20 Sergey Troitsky

Microquasar (MQ) jets are sites of particle acceleration and synchrotron emission. Such synchrotron radiation has been detected coming from jet regions of different spatial scales, which for the instruments at work nowadays appear as…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 V. Bosch-Ramon

Long gamma-ray bursts have been widely associated with collapsing massive stars in the framework of collapsar model. High-energy neutrinos and photons can be produced in the internal shocks of middle relativistic jets from core-collapse…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Nissim Fraija