Search for High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Radio-Bright AGN. (arXiv:2103.12813v3 [astro-ph.HE] UPDATED)
<a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Zhou_B/0/1/0/all/0/1">Bei Zhou</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Kamionkowski_M/0/1/0/all/0/1">Marc Kamionkowski</a>, <a href="http://arxiv.org/find/astro-ph/1/au:+Liang_Y/0/1/0/all/0/1">Yun-feng Liang</a>

We investigate the possibility that radio-bright active galactic nuclei (AGN)
are responsible for the TeV–PeV neutrinos detected by IceCube. We use an
unbinned maximum-likelihood-ratio method, 10 years of IceCube muon-track data,
and 3388 radio-bright AGN selected from the Radio Fundamental Catalog. None of
the AGN in the catalog have a large global significance. The two most
significant sources have global significance of $simeq$ 1.5$sigma$ and
0.8$sigma$, though 4.1$sigma$ and 3.8$sigma$ local significance. Our
stacking analyses show no significant correlation between the whole catalog and
IceCube neutrinos. We infer from the null search that this catalog can account
for at most 30% (95% CL) of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux measured
by IceCube. Moreover, our results disagree with recent work that claimed a
4.1$sigma$ detection of neutrinos from the sources in this catalog, and we
discuss the reasons of the difference.

We investigate the possibility that radio-bright active galactic nuclei (AGN)
are responsible for the TeV–PeV neutrinos detected by IceCube. We use an
unbinned maximum-likelihood-ratio method, 10 years of IceCube muon-track data,
and 3388 radio-bright AGN selected from the Radio Fundamental Catalog. None of
the AGN in the catalog have a large global significance. The two most
significant sources have global significance of $simeq$ 1.5$sigma$ and
0.8$sigma$, though 4.1$sigma$ and 3.8$sigma$ local significance. Our
stacking analyses show no significant correlation between the whole catalog and
IceCube neutrinos. We infer from the null search that this catalog can account
for at most 30% (95% CL) of the diffuse astrophysical neutrino flux measured
by IceCube. Moreover, our results disagree with recent work that claimed a
4.1$sigma$ detection of neutrinos from the sources in this catalog, and we
discuss the reasons of the difference.

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