Neutrino emission from the direction of the blazar TXS 0506+056 prior to the IceCube-170922A alert

Icecube Collaboration

doi:10.1126/science.aat2890

Neutrino emission from the direction of the blazar TXS 0506+056 prior to the IceCube-170922A alert

Icecube Collaboration

Chair of Experimental Physics with Cosmic Particles

University of Canterbury
Deutsches Elektronen-Synchrotron (DESY)
Université Libre de Bruxelles
Niels Bohr Institutet
Oskar Klein Centre
University of Geneva
Friedrich Alexander Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg
Marquette University
Eberly College of Science
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
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Max-Planck-lnstitut für Kohlenforschung
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Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
pro3dure medical GmbH
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Abstract

A high-energy neutrino event detected by IceCube on 22 September 2017 was coincident in direction and time with a gamma-ray flare from the blazar TXS 0506+056. Prompted by this association, we investigated 9.5 years of IceCube neutrino observations to search for excess emission at the position of the blazar. We found an excess of high-energy neutrino events, with respect to atmospheric backgrounds, at that position between September 2014 and March 2015. Allowing for time-variable flux, this constitutes 3.5s evidence for neutrino emission from the direction of TXS 0506+056, independent of and prior to the 2017 flaring episode. This suggests that blazars are identifiable sources of the high-energy astrophysical neutrino flux.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	147-151
Number of pages	5
Journal	Science
Volume	361
Issue number	6398
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.aat2890
State	Published - 13 Jul 2018

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Neutrino emission from the direction of the blazar TXS 0506+056 prior to the IceCube-170922A alert

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