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TANAMI Blazars in the IceCube PeV Neutrino Fields

D. ElsässerIngo KreykenbohmJamie StevensAnastasios TzioumisFelicia KraußFelicia KraußE. LitzingerE. LitzingerChristian PlötzBryce CarpenterD. EisenacherChris PhillipsC. W. JamesD. J. ThompsonShinji HoriuchiEduardo RosEduardo RosK. FehnC. GräfeC. GräfeM. LangejahnM. LangejahnAlexander KappesT. SteinbringT. SteinbringGisela AntonJoern WilmsCornelia MüllerCornelia MüllerNeil GehrelsPhilip G. EdwardsKarl MannheimJ. BlanchardC. BürkelC. BürkelJames E. J. LovellRoopesh OjhaRoopesh OjhaRoopesh OjhaThomas EberlH. HaseJ. TrüstedtJ. TrüstedtMatthias KadlerC. GroßbergerR. SchulzR. SchulzW. BaumgartnerT. BeuchertT. BeuchertU. FritschJonathan QuickK. LeiterK. LeiterUli KatzA. KreikenbohmA. Kreikenbohm

subject

PhysicsAstrofísicaHigh Energy Astrophysical Phenomena (astro-ph.HE)Astrophysics::High Energy Astrophysical PhenomenaFluxFOS: Physical sciencesAstronomy and AstrophysicsAstrophysicsAstrophysics::Cosmology and Extragalactic AstrophysicsGalaxyLuminosityHigh Energy Physics - ExperimentBackground spectrumHigh Energy Physics - Experiment (hep-ex)High Energy Physics - PhenomenologyPionHigh Energy Physics - Phenomenology (hep-ph)Space and Planetary ScienceAstronomiaNeutrinoBlazarAstrophysics - High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena

description

The IceCube Collaboration has announced the discovery of a neutrino flux in excess of the atmospheric background. Due to the steeply falling atmospheric background spectrum, events at PeV energies are most likely of extraterrestrial origin. We present the multiwavelength properties of the six radio brightest blazars positionally coincident with these events using contemporaneous data of the TANAMI blazar sample, including high-resolution images and spectral energy distributions. Assuming the X-ray to {\gamma}-ray emission originates in the photoproduction of pions by accelerated protons, the integrated predicted neutrino luminosity of these sources is large enough to explain the two detected PeV events.

yearjournalcountryeditionlanguage
2014-06-03
10.1051/0004-6361/201424219http://arxiv.org/abs/1406.0645