https://doi.org/10.1140/epjc/s10052-016-4247-x
Regular Article - Theoretical Physics
Blazar origin of some IceCube events
Instituto de Ciencias Nucleares, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Circuito Exterior, C.U., A. Postal 70-543, 04510, Mexico, DF, Mexico
* e-mail: sarira@nucleares.unam.mx
Received:
2
October
2015
Accepted:
5
July
2016
Published online:
15
July
2016
Recently the ANTARES collaboration presented a time dependent analysis of a selected number of flaring blazars to look for upward going muon events produced from the charge current interaction of the muon neutrinos. We use the same list of flaring blazars to look for a possible positional correlation with the IceCube neutrino events. In the context of the photohadronic model we propose that the neutrinos are produced within the nuclear region of the blazar where Fermi accelerated high energy protons interact with the background synchrotron/SSC photons. Although we found that some objects from the ANTARES list are within the error circles of a few IceCube events, the statistical analysis shows that none of these sources have a significant correlation.
© The Author(s), 2016
