Searching for neutrino emission from hard X-ray sources with IceCube

The IceCube neutrino observatory, a cubic-kilometer particle detector at the South Pole, first announced the discovery of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range in 2013, followed in 2017 by the detection of a high-energy neutrino event in temporal and directional correla...

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Main Author: Santander, Marcos
Format: Article in Journal/Newspaper
Language:unknown
Published: arXiv 2019
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.48550/arxiv.1908.04862
https://arxiv.org/abs/1908.04862
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Summary:The IceCube neutrino observatory, a cubic-kilometer particle detector at the South Pole, first announced the discovery of an astrophysical flux of high-energy neutrinos in the TeV-PeV range in 2013, followed in 2017 by the detection of a high-energy neutrino event in temporal and directional correlation with the flaring gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056. This observation, combined with archival neutrino detections in 2014-2015, has provided compelling evidence for the detection of the first high-energy astrophysical neutrino source. A promising way of detecting additional sources is to correlate neutrino detections with sources where a hadronic electromagnetic signature is observed. If blazars are a significant source of neutrinos, the high-energy gamma rays produced in pionic decays in coincidence with the neutrinos may cascade in the strong photons fields present in blazar jets, leading to strong emission in the hard X-ray to MeV gamma-ray energy range. We here present plans for a search for neutrino emission from a large sample of hard X-ray sources from the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS). : Presented at the 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC 2019). See arXiv:1907.11699 for all IceCube contributions