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most citedEstablishing accretion flares from massive black holes as a source of high-energy neutrinos

56 citations · 173 across the 45 of their papers we have counts for

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astro-ph.HE2026

Uncertainty-Aware Tidal Disruption Event Classification : A Host-Agnostic Probabilistic Random Forest Approach

Vysakh Anilkumar, Sjoert van Velzen, Marek Kowalski +1

The classification of Tidal Disruption Events in large-scale photometric surveys is challenging because deterministic machine learning models produce overconfident misclassificatio…

astro-ph.HE2025

Towards the Composition of sub-PeV Cosmic Rays at IceCube

Julian Saffer

With the implementation of a low-energy trigger, the surface array of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory is able to record cosmic-ray induced air showers with a primary energy of a f…

astro-ph.HE2025

SN 2023uqf: An Interacting Supernova Coincident with a High-Energy Neutrino

Robert Stein, Anna Y. Q. Ho, Anjasha Gangopadhyay +30

Astrophysical high-energy (TeV-PeV) neutrinos were first discovered in 2013, but their origin remains largely unknown. Here we present SN 2023uqf, a supernova found in coincidence…

astro-ph.HE2025

Cosmic Ray Detection with the IceTop Enhancement

Megha Venugopal

IceTop is the cosmic-ray detector located on the surface of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory at the South Pole, consisting of 81 pairs of ice-Cherenkov tanks. The rise in the energ…

astro-ph.IM2025

The La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey

Adam A. Miller, Natasha S. Abrams, Greg Aldering +75

We present the La Silla Schmidt Southern Survey (LS4), a new wide-field, time-domain survey to be conducted with the 1 m ESO Schmidt telescope. The 268 megapixel LS4 camera mosaics…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 2 cited

AMPEL workflows for LSST: Modular and reproducible real-time photometric classification

Jakob Nordin, Valery Brinnel, Jakob van Santen +2

Modern time-domain astronomical surveys produce high throughput data streams which require tools for processing and analysis. This will be critical for programs making full use of…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 6 cited

Back from the dead: AT2019aalc as a candidate repeating TDE in an AGN

Patrik Milán Veres, Anna Franckowiak, Sjoert van Velzen +15

Context. To date, three nuclear transients have been associated with high-energy neutrino events. These transients are generally thought to be powered by tidal disruptions of stars…

astro-ph.HE2024★ 9 cited

Flaires: A Comprehensive Catalog of Dust-Echo-like Infrared Flares

Jannis Necker, Eleni Graikou, Marek Kowalski +5

Context: Observations of transient emission from extreme accretion events onto supermassive black holes can reveal conditions in the center of galaxies and the black hole itself. M…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 15 cited

: An Accurate Photometric Classifier for Tidal Disruption Events

Robert Stein, Ashish Mahabal, Simeon Reusch +12

Optical surveys have become increasingly adept at identifying candidate Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) in large numbers, but classifying these generally requires extensive spectros…

astro-ph.HE2023

Search for the Prompt Atmospheric Neutrino Flux in IceCube

Jakob Böttcher

For about a decade the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has been observing a high-energy diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux. At these energies, an important source of background are t…

astro-ph.HE2023

Searching for IceCube sub-TeV neutrino counterparts to sub-threshold Gravitational Wave events

Tista Mukherjee

Since the release of the Gravitational Wave Transient Catalogue GWTC-2.1 by the LIGO-Virgo collaboration, sub-threshold gravitational wave (GW) candidates are publicly available. T…

astro-ph.HE2023

A Two-Component Lateral Distribution Function for the Reconstruction of Air-Shower Events in IceTop

Mark Weyrauch, Dennis Soldin

The surface component of the IceCube Neutrino Observatory, IceTop, consists of an array of ice-Cherenkov tanks measuring the electromagnetic signal as well as low-energy ($\sim\rm{…

astro-ph.HE2023

Extending the IceCube search for neutrino point sources in the Northern sky with additional years of data

Chiara Bellenghi, Martin Ha Minh, Tomas Kontrimas +3

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory is a one-cubic-kilometer-sized neutrino telescope deployed deep in the Antarctic ice at the South Pole. One of IceCube's major goals is finding the…

astro-ph.HE2023

Extending SkyLLH software for neutrino point source analyses with 10 years of IceCube public data

Chiara Bellenghi, Martina Karl, Martin Wolf

Searching for the sources of high-energy cosmic particles requires sophisticated analysis techniques, frequently involving hypothesis tests with unbinned log-likelihood (LLH) funct…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 14 cited

Galactic and Extragalactic Analysis of the Astrophysical Muon Neutrino Flux with 12.3 years of IceCube Track Data

Philipp Fürst

The Ice Cube Neutrino Observatory has been measuring an isotropic astrophysical neutrino flux in multiple detection channels for almost a decade. Galactic diffuse emission, which a…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Search for Extremely High Energy Neutrinos with IceCube

Maximilian Meier, Brian Clark

Extremely high energy (EHE) neutrinos (with energies above GeV) are produced in interactions of the highest energy cosmic rays. A primary contribution to the EHE neutrino fl…

astro-ph.IM2023

Operations plans and sensitivities of the IceCube Upgrade Camera System

Steven Rodan, Christoph Tönnis, Jiwoong Lee +1

The IceCube Upgrade consists of seven new strings to be deployed in the central region of the existing IceCube detector. The goals of the IceCube Upgrade are two-fold: to enhance s…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Indirect dark matter search in the Galactic Centre with IceCube

Nhan Chau, Juan A. Aguilar

It is assumed that dark matter can annihilate or decay into Standard Model particles which then can produce a neutrino flux detectable at IceCube. Such a signal can be emitted from…

astro-ph.IM2023★ 1 cited

A new simulation framework for IceCube Upgrade calibration using IceCube Upgrade Camera system

Christoph Tönnis, Seowon Choi, Carsten Rott +2

Currently, an upgrade consisting of seven densely instrumented strings in the center of the volume of the IceCube detector with new digital optical modules (DOMs) is being built. O…

astro-ph.HE2023

Refining the IceCube detector geometry using muon and LED calibration data

Matti Janson, Saskia Philippen, Martin Rongen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory deployed 5160 digital optical modules (DOMs) on 86 cables, called strings, in a cubic kilometer of deep glacial ice below the geographic South Pole…

astro-ph.HE2023

Search for the rare interactions of neutrinos from distant point sources with IceCube Neutrino Telescope

Woosik Kang, Carsten Rott

The recent discovery and evidence of neutrino signals from distant sources, TXS 0506+056 and NGC 1068 respectively, provide opportunities to search for rare interactions of neutrin…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Search for Dark Matter Decay in Nearby Galaxy Clusters and Galaxies with IceCube

Minjin Jeong, Carsten Rott

Dark matter could decay into Standard Model particles producing neutrinos directly or indirectly. The resulting flux of neutrinos from these decays could be detectable at neutrino…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 1 cited

Measurement of the Cosmic Neutrino Flux from the Southern Sky using 10 years of IceCube Starting Track Events

Manuel Silva, Sarah Mancina, Jesse Osborn

The measurement of a diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux using starting track events marks the first time IceCube has observed and subsequently measured the astrophysical diffuse f…

astro-ph.HE2023

Cross Correlation of IceCube Neutrinos with Tracers of Large Scale Structure

David Guevel, Ke Fang

The origin of most astrophysical neutrinos is unknown, but extragalactic neutrino sources may follow the spatial distribution of the large-scale structure of the universe. Galaxies…