Speaker
Anna Franckowiak
(DESY)
Description
On September 22, 2017, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory has observed for the first time ever an extremely high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922 in spatial and temporal coincidence with a gamma-ray flaring blazar, TXS 0506+056, observed with the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Following the original IceCube alert, the source has been observed by several telescopes in a broad wavelength band. Most notably the LAT has reported an increase of the source’s gamma-ray flux by a factor of ~6 compared to its average state. Emission of very high-energy gamma rays was then observed by MAGIC. Triggered by these detections, archival IceCube events, as well as multi-messenger data have been analyzed in order to better understand the physics and the time-evolution of the object. In this talk we report on the combined result from all analyses, establishing if the correlation with TXS 0506+056 is a chance coincidence or indication of a neutrino source.
Primary authors
Anna Franckowiak
(DESY)
Elisa Bernardini
(DESY)
Dr
Sara Buson
(GSFC)
Mr
Theo Glauch
(Technical University of Munich)
