12–23 Jul 2021
Online
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Electromagnetic and Neutrino Output from Magnetic Reconnection in Poynting Flux Dominated Jets.

12 Jul 2021, 18:00
1h 30m
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Talk MM | Multi-Messenger Discussion

Speaker

Dr Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Ramírez (Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica, e Ciencias Atmosfericas - Universidade de Sao Paulo)

Description

Neutrino-emitting blazars may accelerate cosmic ray (CR) protons at the inner regions of the jet, where most of the magnetic energy is likely to be dissipated. In this picture, the spectrum of neutrinos and gamma-rays that leave the source is shaped by the soft photon fields that the parent hadrons encounter before leaving the source. We build a lepto-hadronic emission model based on particle acceleration by magnetic reconnection. The emission is powered by magnetic dissipation in the jet, in the transition from magnetically to kinetically dominated flow. We employ the striped jet model to obtain the jet properties at three characteristic emission regions and derive the associated electromagnetic and neutrino output. We also perform Monte Carlo simulations of the propagation CR protons as an alternative method for calculating the neutrino flux. We apply this emission model to interpret the 2017 multi-messenger event from the blazar TXS0506+056 and we also discuss applications of the model in the context of flat-spectrum radio quasars and BL Lac objects.

Keywords

AGN, Particles acceleration, Neutrino emission, Magnetic reconnection

Subcategory Theoretical Results

Primary authors

Dr Juan Carlos Rodríguez-Ramírez (Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica, e Ciencias Atmosfericas - Universidade de Sao Paulo) Prof. Elisabete Maria de Gouveia dal Pino (Instituto de Astronomia, Geofisica e Ciencias Atmosfericas - Universidade de Sao Paulo) Rafael Alves Batista (Radboud University) Dr Pankaj Kushwaha (Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES))

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