IceCube Search for Neutrino Emission from X-ray Bright Seyfert Galaxies
R. Abbasi, M. Ackermann, J. Adams, S. K. Agarwalla, J. A. Aguilar, M., Ahlers, J.M. Alameddine, N. M. Amin, K. Andeen, C. Arg\"uelles, Y. Ashida, S., Athanasiadou, L. Ausborm, S. N. Axani, X. Bai, A. Balagopal V., M. Baricevic,, S. W. Barwick, S. Bash, V. Basu, R. Bay

TL;DR
This study searches for neutrino emissions from X-ray bright Seyfert galaxies using IceCube data, finding potential excesses in some sources and constraining their collective neutrino output.
Contribution
It provides the first systematic search for neutrinos from Seyfert galaxies based on X-ray activity, testing disk-corona models and analyzing a decade of IceCube data.
Findings
Constraints on collective neutrino emission from Seyfert galaxies.
Detection of neutrino excesses in NGC 4151 and CGCG 420-015.
Potential 2.7σ significance of neutrino excesses related to specific sources.
Abstract
The recent IceCube detection of TeV neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068 suggests that active galactic nuclei (AGN) could make a sizable contribution to the diffuse flux of astrophysical neutrinos. The absence of TeV -rays from NGC 1068 indicates neutrino production in the vicinity of the supermassive black hole, where the high radiation density leads to -ray attenuation. Therefore, any potential neutrino emission from similar sources is not expected to correlate with high-energy -rays. Disk-corona models predict neutrino emission from Seyfert galaxies to correlate with keV X-rays, as they are tracers of coronal activity. Using through-going track events from the Northern Sky recorded by IceCube between 2011 and 2021, we report results from a search for individual and aggregated neutrino signals from 27 additional Seyfert galaxies that are…
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