Hunting for neutrino emission from multi-frequency variable sources
arXiv:2203.16740 · doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ac8c32
Abstract
Pinpointing the neutrino sources is crucial to unveil the mystery of high-energy cosmic rays. The search for neutrino-source candidates from coincident neutrino-photon signatures and electromagnetic objects with peculiar flaring behaviors have the potential to increase our chances of finding neutrino emitters. In this paper, we first study the temporal correlations of astrophysical flares with neutrinos, considering a few hundreds of multi-frequency sources from ALMA, WISE, Swift, and Fermi in the containment regions of IceCube high-energy alerts. Furthermore, the spatial correlations between blazars and neutrinos are investigated using the subset of 10-year IceCube track-like neutrinos with around 250 thousand events. In the second test, we account for 2700 blazars with different types of flaring phases in addition to sole position. No significant neutrino emissions were found from our analyses. Our results indicate an interesting trend showing the infrared flaring stages of WISE blazars might be correlated with arrival times of the neutrino alerts. Possible overflow of neutrinos associated with two of our blazar sub-samples are also illustrated. One is characterized by a significant flaring lag in infrared with respect to gamma-rays, like seen for TXS0506+056, and the other is characterized by highly simultaneous infrared and gamma-ray flares. These phenomena suggest the need to improve current multi-frequency light-curve catalogs to pair with the advent of more sensitive neutrino observatories.
30 pages, 16 figures
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