Conveners
Exploring Connections: Active Galactic Nuclei & Neutrinos: Plenary-4
- Markus Boettcher (North-West University)
The Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are the most powerful persistent sources in the Universe, bringing information from extreme environments expected to accelerate particles to energies well above those at reach on Earth-based laboratories. In the last decade, the advent of novel instrumentation has boosted our capabilities to study these environments across the electromagnetic spectrum. Such...
The IceCube neutrino observatory at the geographic South Pole has been operating at full capacity for the past ten years. In 2013, IceCube reported first evidence of an isotropic flux of astrophysical neutrinos in the TeV-PeV energy range. While the flux is by now observed with high significance, its astrophysical origin is unknown. Only recently, IceCube was able to report first compelling...
Multi-messenger astrophysics experienced a tremendous boost, after the first detection of astrophysical neutrinos was reported eight years ago. Despite having uncovered a large variety of gamma-ray emitting source classes up to today, a firm identification of the dominant source population responsible for the detected high-energy neutrino all-sky flux is, however, still lacking.
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