Article ID | Journal | Published Year | Pages | File Type |
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10700459 | Astroparticle Physics | 2005 | 6 Pages |
Abstract
The AMANDA neutrino telescope has recently reported the detection of high-energy neutrinos spatially and temporally coincident with the flaring of the TeV blazar 1ES 1959 + 650. If high-energy neutrinos are in fact generated by this blazar, it would be the first strong evidence for the hadronic acceleration of cosmic rays. At present, the statistical significance of this observation cannot be reliably assessed, however. In this letter, we investigate whether circumstances exist where the source can produce the flux implied by the coincident events. We show that if the TeV gamma-ray emission observed from 1ES 1959 + 650 or other nearby TeV blazars is the result of accelerated protons interacting with nucleons, it is reasonable that AMANDA could detect several events during a flaring period. Such rates require that the spectral index of the source be rather high (for instance â¼2.8 for 1ES 1959 + 650) and that the Lorentz factor of the jet be fairly small (Πâ¼Â 1).
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Authors
Francis Halzen, Dan Hooper,