TY - JOUR
T1 - Neutrinos from Tidal Disruption Events
AU - Lunardini, Cecilia
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PY - 2021/7/2
Y1 - 2021/7/2
N2 - When a star is disrupted by a supermassive black hole, and its debris are accreted onto it, a powerful hadronic jet can be generated and be a source of high energy neutrinos and cosmic rays. I review the simplest models of neutrino production from such Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs), and show that the resulting neutrino flux is detectable, and can explain a fraction of the diffuse neutrino flux detected at IceCube. The possibility of a joint explanation of the neutrino and UltraHigh Energy Cosmic Ray data is briefly illustrated. I discuss the hypothesis - which requires further study to be fully substantiated - that a single TDE burst might have been responsible for the 2014-2015 neutrino flare observed by IceCube.
AB - When a star is disrupted by a supermassive black hole, and its debris are accreted onto it, a powerful hadronic jet can be generated and be a source of high energy neutrinos and cosmic rays. I review the simplest models of neutrino production from such Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs), and show that the resulting neutrino flux is detectable, and can explain a fraction of the diffuse neutrino flux detected at IceCube. The possibility of a joint explanation of the neutrino and UltraHigh Energy Cosmic Ray data is briefly illustrated. I discuss the hypothesis - which requires further study to be fully substantiated - that a single TDE burst might have been responsible for the 2014-2015 neutrino flare observed by IceCube.
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M3 - Conference article
AN - SCOPUS:85127517934
SN - 1824-8039
VL - 358
JO - Proceedings of Science
JF - Proceedings of Science
M1 - 949
T2 - 36th International Cosmic Ray Conference, ICRC 2019
Y2 - 24 July 2019 through 1 August 2019
ER -