Revised Predictions of Neutrino Fluxes from Pulsar Wind Nebulae

  • Palma I
  • Guetta D
  • Amato E
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Several pulsar wind nebulae (PWN) have been detected in the TeV band in the last decade. TeV emission is typically interpreted in a purely leptonic scenario, but this often requires that the magnetic field in the nebula be much lower than the equipartition value, as well as the assumption of an enhanced density of target radiation at IR frequencies. In this work, we consider the possibility that, in addition to the relativistic electrons and positrons, relativistic hadrons are also present in these nebulae. Assuming that some of the emitted TeV photons are of hadronic origin, we compute the associated flux of ∼ 1 – 100 TeV neutrinos. We use IceCube non-detection to put constraints on the fraction of TeV photons that might be contributed by hadrons and estimate the number of neutrino events that can be expected from these sources in ANTARES and KM3Net.

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Palma, I. D., Guetta, D., & Amato, E. (2017). Revised Predictions of Neutrino Fluxes from Pulsar Wind Nebulae. The Astrophysical Journal, 836(2), 159. https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/836/2/159

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