Conveners
Exploring Connections: Neutrinos and Gamma Rays: Parallel-7
- Markus Ahlers
The simultaneous detection of a high energy neutrino event during a gamma-ray flare from TXS 0506+056 played an essential role in its identification as an astrophysical neutrino source in 2017. This highlights the current importance of electromagnetic follow-up by gamma-ray instruments for finding new sources in the field of high-energy neutrino astronomy where many of the sources and source...
The Fermi Flare Advocate (also known as Gamma-ray Sky Watcher, FA-GSW) service provides for a quick look and review of the gamma-ray sky observed daily by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) through on-duty LAT Flare Advocates and high level software pipelines like the LAT Automatic Science Processing (ASP), the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA), a dedicated suite of software and,...
The detection of the flaring gamma-ray blazar TXS 0506+056 in spatial and temporal coincidence with the high-energy neutrino IC-170922A represents a milestone for multi-messenger astronomy. This finding suggests that gamma rays represent an important tracer of neutrino production in blazars and the 11-year all-sky coverage of the Fermi-LAT provides unique opportunities for both long-term...
VERITAS, an array of atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes sensitive to gamma rays in the very-high-energy range (VHE, E > 100 GeV), carries out an extensive multimessenger program focused on the search for electromagnetic counterparts to high-energy neutrinos and gravitational waves. As both neutrinos and gamma rays are expected to be produced in hadronic interactions near cosmic ray accelerators,...
Blazars host relativistic jets which are considered to be excellent sites for high-energy-cosmic-ray acceleration. In the vicinity of the supermassive black hole and inside the relativistic jet, there exist photon fields which are thought to facilitate high-energy neutrino production. Recently, a number of blazars have been tentatively associated with high-energy neutrinos detected by the...
The new era of the multi-messenger Astrophysics has begun. The first step required to enable this science is to identify the multimessenger sources. Of particular interest is the relation between the high-energy neutrino events detected by IceCube Observatory and the γ-ray emission from extra-galactic objects. Despite the effort devoted to finding a clear γ-ray counterpart to astrophysical...
