Extragalactic neutrino factories
| Autor: | Buson, Sara, Tramacere, Andrea, Oswald, Lenz, Barbano, Eleonora, de Clairfontaine, Gaetan Fichet, Pfeiffer, Leonard, Azzollini, Alessandra, Baghmanyan, Vardan, Ajello, Marco |
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| Rok vydání: | 2023 |
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| Druh dokumentu: | Working Paper |
| Popis: | Identifying the astrophysical sources responsible for the high-energy cosmic neutrinos has been a longstanding challenge. In a previous work, we report evidence for a spatial correlation between blazars from the 5th Roma-BZCat catalog and neutrino data of the highest detectable energies, i.e. >0.1 PeV, collected by the IceCube Observatory in the southern celestial hemisphere. The statistical significance is found at the level of 2 x 10^{-6} post-trial. In this work we test whether a similar correlation exists in the northern hemisphere, were IceCube is mostly sensitive to <0.1 PeV energies. We find a consistent correlation between blazars and northern neutrino data at the pre-trial p-value of 5.12 x 10^{-4}, and a post-trial chance probability of 6.79 x 10^{-3}. Combining the post-trial probabilities observed for the southern and northern experiments yields a global post-trial chance probability of 2.59 x 10^{-7} for the genuineness of such correlation. This implies that the spatial correlation is highly unlikely to arise by chance. Our studies push forward an all-sky subset of 52 objects as highly likely PeVatron extragalactic accelerators. Comment: Under review, feedback welcome |
| Databáze: | arXiv |
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