Multimessenger Potential of the Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland

TL;DR

The Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) is a highly sensitive detector for ultrahigh energy neutrinos, offering unique multimessenger observational capabilities that can identify extreme astrophysical accelerators and complement existing detectors like IceCube.

Contribution

This paper highlights RNO-G's multimessenger potential, its unique field-of-view, and its role in constraining UHE cosmic ray sources, advancing multimessenger astrophysics.

Findings

RNO-G will be the most sensitive UHE neutrino detector in the Northern sky.

It offers a unique field-of-view for multimessenger observations.

RNO-G can complement IceCube in the search for astrophysical sources.

Abstract

The Radio Neutrino Observatory in Greenland (RNO-G) is the only ultrahigh energy (UHE, ${\gtrsim}30$~PeV) neutrino monitor of the Northern sky and will soon be the world's most sensitive high-uptime detector of UHE neutrinos. Because of this, RNO-G represents an important piece of the multimessenger landscape over the next decade. In this talk, we will highlight RNO-G's multimessenger capabilities and its potential to provide key information in the search for the most extreme astrophysical accelerators. In particular, we will highlight opportunities enabled by RNO-G's unique field-of-view, its potential to constrain the sources of UHE cosmic rays, and its complementarity with IceCube at lower energies.