8–12 oct. 2018
Ecole Supérieure de Chimie, Paris
Fuseau horaire Europe/Paris

Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays and Neutrinos from Tidal Disruptions by Massive Black Holes

9 oct. 2018, 12:10
20m
Friedel Amphitheater (Ecole Supérieure de Chimie, Paris)

Friedel Amphitheater

Ecole Supérieure de Chimie, Paris

Chimie ParisTech École Nationale Supérieure de Chimie de Paris 11, rue Pierre et Marie Curie 75231 PARIS Cedex 05
ORAL Sessions

Orateur

Claire Guépin (IAP)

Description

In addition to the emergence of time domain astronomy, the advent of multi-messenger astronomy opens up a new window on transient high-energy sources. Through the multi-messenger study of the most energetic objects in our universe, two fundamental questions can be addressed: what are the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and the sources of very-high energy neutrinos?

Jetted Tidal Disruption Events (TDEs) appear as interesting candidate sources of UHECRs, with their impressive energy reservoir and estimated occurrence rates. By modeling and simulating the propagation and interaction of UHECRs in various types of radiative backgrounds, we can evaluate the signatures of TDEs powering jets in UHECRs and neutrinos. We find that we can reproduce the latest UHECR spectrum and composition results of the Auger experiment for a range of reasonable parameters. The diffuse neutrino flux associated with this scenario is found to be subdominant, but nearby events could be detected by IceCube or next-generation detectors such as IceCube-Gen2.

Auteur principal

Co-auteurs

Kumiko Kotera (Institut d'Astrophysique de Paris) Enrico Barausse (IAP/CNRS) Ke Fang (University of Maryland) Kohta Murase (Penn State University)

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