Search for Neutrino Emission from Hard X-Ray AGN with IceCube
Active galactic nuclei (AGN) are promising candidate sources of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, since they provide environments rich in matter and photon targets where cosmic-ray interactions may lead to the production of gamma rays and neutrinos. We searched for high-energy neutrino emission from AGN using the Swift-BAT Spectroscopic Survey catalog of hard X-ray sources and 12 yr of IceCube muon track data. First, upon performing a stacked search, no significant emission was found. Second, we searched for neutrinos from a list of 43 candidate sources and found an excess from the direction of two sources, the Seyfert galaxies NGC 1068 and NGC 4151. We observed NGC 1068 at flux ϕνμ+ν¯μ = 4.02−1.52+1.58×10−11 TeV−1 cm−2 s−1 normalized at 1 TeV, with a power-law spectral index γ = 3.10 −0.22+0.26 , consistent with previous IceCube results. The observation of a neutrino excess from the direction of NGC 4151 is at a posttrial significance of 2.9σ. If interpreted as an astrophysical signal, the excess observed from NGC 4151 corresponds to a flux ϕνμ+ν¯μ = 1.51−0.81+0.99×10−11 TeV−1 cm−2 s−1 normalized at 1 TeV and γ = 2.83 −0.28+0.35 .
- Research Organization:
- Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory (LBNL), Berkeley, CA (United States)
- Sponsoring Organization:
- US Department of Energy; USDOE Office of Science (SC), High Energy Physics (HEP) (SC-25)
- DOE Contract Number:
- AC02-05CH11231;
- OSTI ID:
- 2572238
- Resource Type:
- Conference paper
- Conference Information:
- The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
- Country of Publication:
- United States
- Language:
- English
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