Publications (15)
AM: An Open-Source Tool for Time-Dependent Lepto-Hadronic Modeling of Astrophysical Sources
Marc Klinger, Annika Rudolph, Xavier Rodrigues +6
We present the AM ("Astrophysical Multi-Messenger Modeling") software. AM is a documented open source software that efficiently solves the coupled integro-differential equa…
Multi-wavelength and neutrino emission from blazar PKS 1502+106
Xavier Rodrigues, Simone Garrappa, Shan Gao +3
In July of 2019, the IceCube experiment detected a high-energy neutrino from the direction of the powerful blazar PKS 1502+106. We perform multi-wavelength and multi-messenger mode…
Binary Neutron Star Merger Remnants as Sources of Cosmic Rays Below the "Ankle"
Xavier Rodrigues, Daniel Biehl, Denise Boncioli +1
We investigate non-thermal electron and nuclei energy losses within the binary neutron star merger remnant produced by the event GW170817. The lack of a cooling feature within the…
Hillas meets Eddington: The case for blazars as ultra-high-energy neutrino sources
Xavier Rodrigues, Frank Rieger, Artem Bohdan +1
Blazars are promising high-energy neutrino source candidates. However, leptohadronic models face challenges in describing neutrino emission within a viable energy budget, and their…
The Blazar Hadronic Code Comparison Project
Matteo Cerruti, Michael Kreter, Maria Petropoulou +15
Blazar hadronic models have been developed in the past decades as an alternative to leptonic ones. In hadronic models the gamma-ray emission is associated with synchrotron emission…
Multi-messenger interpretation of the neutrinos from TXS 0506+056
Walter Winter, Shan Gao, Xavier Rodrigues +3
We discuss possible interpretations of the neutrinos observed from the AGN blazar TXS 0506+056 in the multi-messenger and multi-wavelength context, including both the 2014-15 and 2…
Neutrinos from extreme astrophysical sources
Xavier Rodrigues
In this paper I review recent results on high-energy neutrino astronomy and what they can reveal about some of the most extreme cosmic accelerators. I discuss recent measurements o…
Leptohadronic Multimessenger Modeling of 324 Gamma-Ray Blazars
Xavier Rodrigues, Vaidehi S. Paliya, Simone Garrappa +3
The origin of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux observed by the IceCube experiment is still under debate. In recent years there have been associations of neutrino events with…
Leptohadronic blazar models applied to the 2014-15 flare of TXS 0506+056
Xavier Rodrigues, Shan Gao, Anatoli Fedynitch +2
We investigate whether the emission of neutrinos observed in 2014-15 from the direction of the blazar TXS 0506+056 can be accommodated with leptohadronic multi-wavelength models of…
Differences Between the Pierre Auger Observatory and Telescope Array Spectra: Systematic Effects or Indication of a Local Source of Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays?
Pavlo Plotko, Arjen van Vliet, Xavier Rodrigues +1
The Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) and Telescope Array (TA) collaborations report significant differences in the observed energy spectra of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) a…
Neutrinos and Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Nuclei from Blazars
Xavier Rodrigues, Anatoli Fedynitch, Shan Gao +2
We discuss the production of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) nuclei and neutrinos from blazars. We compute the nuclear cascade in the jet for both BL Lac objects and flat-spec…
The Spectra of IceCube Neutrino (SIN) candidate sources -- V. Modeling and interpretation of multiwavelength and neutrino data
Xavier Rodrigues, Martina Karl, Paolo Padovani +5
A correlation has been reported between the arrival directions of high-energy IceCube events and gamma-ray blazars classified as intermediate- and high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lacs.…
Interpretation of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux in terms of the blazar sequence
Andrea Palladino, Xavier Rodrigues, Shan Gao +1
We study if the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux can come from blazar jets -- a subclass of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) -- while it, at the same time, respects the blazar stac…
A Comprehensive Hadronic Code Comparison for Active Galactic Nuclei
Matteo Cerruti, Annika Rudolph, Maria Petropoulou +14
We perform the first dedicated comparison of five hadronic codes (AM, ATHEA, B13, LeHa-Paris, and LeHaMoC) that have been extensively used in modeling of the spectral energ…
AGN jets as the origin of UHECRs and perspectives for the detection of astrophysical source neutrinos at EeV energies
Xavier Rodrigues, Jonas Heinze, Andrea Palladino +2
We demonstrate that a population of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can describe the observed spectrum of ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) at and above the ankle, and that the d…