Radio astronomy locates the neutrino origin in bright blazars

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Plavin, Alexander [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
Kovalev, Yuri Y. [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
Kovalev, Yuri A. [1 ,2 ,3 ,4 ]
Troitsky, Sergey
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[1] Astro Space Ctr, Lebedev Phys Inst, Profsoyuznaya 84-32, Moscow 117997, Russia
[2] Moscow Inst Phys & Technol, Inst Per 9, Dolgoprudnyi 141700, Russia
[3] Max Planck Inst Radioastronomie, Auf Hugel 69, D-53121 Bonn, Germany
[4] Russian Acad Sci, Inst Nucl Res, 60th October Anniversary Prospect 7A, Moscow 117312, Russia
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High-energy astrophysical neutrinos have been observed by several telescopes in the last decade, but their sources still remained unknown. We address the problem of locating astrophysical neutrinos' sources in a statistical manner. We show that blazars positionally associated with IceCube neutrino detections have stronger parsec-scale radio cores than the rest of the sample. The probability of a chance coincidence is only 4 center dot 10(-5) corresponding to a significance of 4.1 sigma. We explicitly list four strong radio blazars as highly probable sources of neutrinos above 200 TeV: 3C 279, NRAO 530, PKS 1741-038, and PKS 2145+067. There are at least 70 more radio-bright blazars that emit neutrinos of lower energies starting from TeVs. Using continuous RATAN-600 monitoring of VLBI-selected blazars, we find that radio flares at frequencies above 10 GHz coincide with neutrino arrival dates. The most pronounced example of such behavior is PKS 1502+106 that experienced a major flare in 2019. We demonstrate that the majority of IceCube astrophysical neutrino flux derived from muon-track analyses may be explained by blazars, that is AGNs with bright Doppler-boosted jets. High-energy neutrinos can be produced in photohadronic interactions within parsec-scale relativistic jets. Radio-bright blazars associated with neutrino detections have very diverse gamma-ray properties, which suggests that gamma-rays and neutrinos may be produced in different regions of blazars and not directly related. A narrow jet viewing angle is, however, required to detect either of them. We conclude with discussion of recent independent tests and extensions of our findings.
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