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Interpretation of astrophysical neutrinos observed by IceCube experiment by setting Galactic and extra-Galactic spectral components

The last IceCube catalog of High Energy Starting Events (HESE) obtained with a livetime of 1347 days comprises 54 neutrino events equally-distributed between the three families with energies between 25 TeV and few PeVs. Considering the homogeneous flavors distribution (1:1:1) and the spectral featur...

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Autores principales: Marinelli, Antonio, Gaggero, Daniele, Grasso, Dario, Urbano, Alfredo, Valli, Mauro
Lenguaje:eng
Publicado: 2016
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Acceso en línea:https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611604009
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2147628
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author Marinelli, Antonio
Gaggero, Daniele
Grasso, Dario
Urbano, Alfredo
Valli, Mauro
author_facet Marinelli, Antonio
Gaggero, Daniele
Grasso, Dario
Urbano, Alfredo
Valli, Mauro
author_sort Marinelli, Antonio
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description The last IceCube catalog of High Energy Starting Events (HESE) obtained with a livetime of 1347 days comprises 54 neutrino events equally-distributed between the three families with energies between 25 TeV and few PeVs. Considering the homogeneous flavors distribution (1:1:1) and the spectral features of these neutrinos the IceCube collaboration claims the astrophysical origin of these events with more than $5\sigma$. The spatial distribution of cited events does not show a clear correlation with known astrophysical accelerators leaving opened both the Galactic and the extra-Galactic origin interpretations. Here, we compute the neutrino diffuse emission of our Galaxy on the basis of a recently proposed phenomenological model characterized by radially-dependent cosmic-ray (CR) transport properties. We show that the astrophysical spectrum measured by IceCube experiment can be well explained adding to the diffuse Galactic neutrino flux (obtained with this new model) a extra-Galactic component derived from the astrophysical muonic neutrinos reconstructed in the Northern hemisphere. A good agreement between the expected astrophysical neutrino flux and the IceCube data is found for the full sky as well as for the Galactic plane region.
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spelling cern-21476282022-08-10T12:45:20Zdoi:10.1051/epjconf/201611604009http://cds.cern.ch/record/2147628engMarinelli, AntonioGaggero, DanieleGrasso, DarioUrbano, AlfredoValli, MauroInterpretation of astrophysical neutrinos observed by IceCube experiment by setting Galactic and extra-Galactic spectral componentsAstrophysics and AstronomyThe last IceCube catalog of High Energy Starting Events (HESE) obtained with a livetime of 1347 days comprises 54 neutrino events equally-distributed between the three families with energies between 25 TeV and few PeVs. Considering the homogeneous flavors distribution (1:1:1) and the spectral features of these neutrinos the IceCube collaboration claims the astrophysical origin of these events with more than $5\sigma$. The spatial distribution of cited events does not show a clear correlation with known astrophysical accelerators leaving opened both the Galactic and the extra-Galactic origin interpretations. Here, we compute the neutrino diffuse emission of our Galaxy on the basis of a recently proposed phenomenological model characterized by radially-dependent cosmic-ray (CR) transport properties. We show that the astrophysical spectrum measured by IceCube experiment can be well explained adding to the diffuse Galactic neutrino flux (obtained with this new model) a extra-Galactic component derived from the astrophysical muonic neutrinos reconstructed in the Northern hemisphere. A good agreement between the expected astrophysical neutrino flux and the IceCube data is found for the full sky as well as for the Galactic plane region.arXiv:1604.05776oai:cds.cern.ch:21476282016-04-19
spellingShingle Astrophysics and Astronomy
Marinelli, Antonio
Gaggero, Daniele
Grasso, Dario
Urbano, Alfredo
Valli, Mauro
Interpretation of astrophysical neutrinos observed by IceCube experiment by setting Galactic and extra-Galactic spectral components
title Interpretation of astrophysical neutrinos observed by IceCube experiment by setting Galactic and extra-Galactic spectral components
title_full Interpretation of astrophysical neutrinos observed by IceCube experiment by setting Galactic and extra-Galactic spectral components
title_fullStr Interpretation of astrophysical neutrinos observed by IceCube experiment by setting Galactic and extra-Galactic spectral components
title_full_unstemmed Interpretation of astrophysical neutrinos observed by IceCube experiment by setting Galactic and extra-Galactic spectral components
title_short Interpretation of astrophysical neutrinos observed by IceCube experiment by setting Galactic and extra-Galactic spectral components
title_sort interpretation of astrophysical neutrinos observed by icecube experiment by setting galactic and extra-galactic spectral components
topic Astrophysics and Astronomy
url https://dx.doi.org/10.1051/epjconf/201611604009
http://cds.cern.ch/record/2147628
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