Implications of photon-ALP oscillations in the extragalactic neutrino source TXS 0506+056 at sub-PeV energies

Abstract

Photon-axion-like particle (ALP) oscillations result in the survival of gamma rays from distant sources above TeV energies. Studies of events observed by CAST, Fermi-LAT, and IACT have constrained the ALP parameters. We investigate the effect of photon-ALP oscillations on the gamma-ray spectra of the first extragalactic neutrino source, TXS 0506+056, for observations by Fermi-LAT and MAGIC around the IC170922-A alert. We obtain a constraint on the ALP coupling parameter $g_{a\gamma }<5\times 10^{-11}$ GeV${}^{-1}$ with 95% C.L. when focusing on the ALP mass range 0.1 neV $\le$ $m_a$ $\le$ 1000 neV. Importantly, we study the implications of ALP-$\gamma$ oscillations on the counterpart $\gamma$ rays of the sub-PeV neutrinos observed from TXS 0506+056. We also show the diffuse $\gamma$-ray fluxes and observabilities from flat-spectrum radio quasars, high-synchrotron peaked sources, and low-intermediate-synchrotron peaked sources, assuming similar gamma-ray emissions as that from TXS 0506+056.

10 pages, 5 figures; Published version

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