Search for TeV Neutrinos from Seyfert Galaxies in the Southern Sky using Starting Track Events in IceCube
Shiqi Yu, Ali Kheirandish, Qinrui Liu, Hans Niederhausen (for the, IceCube Collaboration)

TL;DR
This paper searches for TeV neutrinos from Seyfert galaxies in the Southern Sky using IceCube data, employing a novel disc-corona model to enhance detection prospects and analyze potential neutrino emissions near supermassive black holes.
Contribution
It introduces a dedicated disc-corona model for neutrino production and applies it to IceCube data to improve the search for neutrinos from Seyfert galaxies.
Findings
Enhanced detection potential using the disc-corona model
Selection of brightest Seyfert galaxies for targeted search
Performance assessment of the neutrino search strategy
Abstract
Supermassive black holes (SMBHs) power active galactic nuclei (AGN). The vicinity of the SMBH has long been proposed as the potential site of particle acceleration and neutrino production. Recently, IceCube reported evidence of neutrino emission from the Seyfert II galaxy NGC 1068. The absence of a matching flux of TeV gamma rays suggests that neutrinos are produced where gamma rays can efficiently get attenuated, for example, in the hot coronal environment near the SMBH at the core of the AGN. Here, we select the intrinsically brightest (in X-ray) Seyfert galaxies in the Southern Sky from the BAT AGN Spectroscopic Survey (BASS) and search for associated neutrinos using starting track events in IceCube. In addition to the standard power law flux assumption, we leverage a dedicated disc-corona model of neutrino production in such an environment to improve the discovery potential of the…
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Taxonomy
TopicsAstrophysics and Cosmic Phenomena · Dark Matter and Cosmic Phenomena · Neutrino Physics Research
