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SUMMARY:Correlation between IceCube neutrinos and X-ray flaring blazars
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DESCRIPTION:Speakers: Matthew Fu (Bishop Watterson High School)\, Timothy 
 Govenor (Bishop Watterson High School)\, Quentin King (Bishop Watterson Hi
 gh School)\nGamma-ray bright blazars are beginning to emerge as a very pla
 usible \nsource of at least some of the very-high-energy neutrinos detecte
 d \nby IceCube. Most searches for a correlation between blazars and neutri
 no \nevents have so far focused on gamma-ray flaring blazars\, motivated b
 y \nthe fact that very-high-energy gamma-rays are co-produced with neutrin
 os \nif neutrinos are produced through photo-pion interactions of relativi
 stic \nprotons with dense target photon fields. However\, the same target 
 photon \nfields also act as a source of gamma-gamma opacity\, leading to t
 he development \nof electromagnetic cascades. The energy of the co-produce
 d photons is \ntherefore more likely to emerge in the soft gamma-ray to X-
 ray regime \ninstead of high-energy and very-high-energy gamma-rays. We ar
 e therefore\nconducting a systematic search for a correlation between IceC
 ube Gold and \nBronze alerts and X-ray flaring blazars\, utilizing the Swi
 ft-XRT blazar \nmonitoring program. First preliminary results of this sear
 ch will be \npresented.\n\nhttps://indico.tlabs.ac.za/event/109/contributi
 ons/2246/
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URL:https://indico.tlabs.ac.za/event/109/contributions/2246/
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