TANAMI counterparts to IceCube high-energy neutrino events
Since the discovery of a neutrino flux in excess of the atmospheric background by the IceCube Collaboration, searches for the astrophysical sources have been ongoing. Due to the steeply falling background towards higher energies, the PeV events detected in three years of IceCube data are the most li...
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Zusammenfassung: | Since the discovery of a neutrino flux in excess of the atmospheric
background by the IceCube Collaboration, searches for the astrophysical sources
have been ongoing. Due to the steeply falling background towards higher
energies, the PeV events detected in three years of IceCube data are the most
likely ones to be of extraterrestrial origin. Even excluding the PeV events
detected so far, the neutrino flux is well above the atmospheric background, so
it is likely that a number of sub-PeV events originate from the same
astrophysical sources that produce the PeV events. We study the high-energy
properties of AGN that are positionally coincident with the neutrino events
from three years of IceCube data and show the results for event number 4. IC 4
is a event with a low angular error (7.1$^\circ$) and a large deposited energy
of 165 TeV. We use multiwavelength data, including Fermi/LAT and X-ray data, to
construct broadband spectra and present parametrizations of the broadband
spectral energy distributions with logarithmic parabolas. Assuming the X-ray to
{\gamma}-ray emission in blazars originates in the photoproduction of pions by
accelerated protons, their predicted neutrino luminosity can be estimated. The
measurements of the diffuse extragalactic background by Fermi/LAT gives us an
estimate of the flux contributions from faint unresolved blazars. Their
contribution increases the number of expected events by a factor of $\sim$2. We
conclude that the detection of the IceCube neutrinos IC4, IC14, and IC20 can be
explained by the integral emission of blazars, even though no individual source
yields a sufficient energy output. |
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DOI: | 10.48550/arxiv.1502.02147 |