4–7 Sept 2018
Roma Tre University
Europe/Rome timezone

AGILE Gamma-ray Sources Coincident with Cosmic Neutrino Events

5 Sept 2018, 14:10
20m
Room B (Math. and Phys. Department)

Room B

Math. and Phys. Department

Oral Neutrinos

Speaker

Dr Fabrizio Lucarelli (INAF-OAR & ASI-SSDC)

Description

Using data obtained by the gamma-ray imager on board of the AGILE satellite, we systematically searched for transient gamma-ray sources above 100 MeV in temporal and spatial coincidence with high-energy neutrino IceCube events. We found some significant gamma-ray transients possibly associated with HESE neutrinos recently detected by the IceCube experiment. In this talk, we review the AGILE results and we will show that the probability of this association to be by chance is very low. One of the sources detected by AGILE is related to the blazar AGN TXS 0506+056. For the other sources, there are no obvious known counterparts.

Primary author

Dr Fabrizio Lucarelli (INAF-OAR & ASI-SSDC)

Co-authors

AGILE Team on behalf of the (INAF) Prof. Marco Tavani (INAF-IAPS)

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