Volume 444 - 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023) - Neutrino Astronomy & Physics (NU)
Search for high-energy neutrino emission from hard X-ray AGN with IceCube
 on behalf of the IceCube Collaboration, G.C. Privon, R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, S.K. Agarwalla, et al. (click to show)
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Pre-published on: August 05, 2023
Published on: September 27, 2024
Abstract
Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are powerful astronomical objects with very high luminosities. Theoretical arguments suggest that these objects are capable of accelerating particles to energies of 1020 eV. In environments with matter or photon targets, cosmic-ray interactions transpire leading to the production of pionic gamma rays and neutrinos. Since the AGN environment is rich in gas, dust and photons, they are promising candidate sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos. While the neutrinos manage to escape, the gamma rays may further interact and cascade down to hard X-rays in environments with sufficiently large photon or gas targets. We have used 12 years of IceCube data to perform a stacked search and a point source search for high-energy neutrino emission from hard X-ray AGN sampled from Swift-BAT Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) and present the results of these two analyses.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.444.1032
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