Evidence for neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068

Icecube Collaboration

doi:10.1126/science.abg3395

Evidence for neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068

Icecube Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy

Loyola University Chicago
German Electron Synchrotron
University of Canterbury
Université libre de Bruxelles
University of Copenhagen
Oskar Klein Centre
TU Dortmund University
University of Geneva
Karlsruhe Institute of Technology
University of Delaware
Marquette University
Pennsylvania State University
Friedrich-Alexander University Erlangen-Nürnberg
Harvard University
University of Wisconsin-Madison
Massachusetts Institute of Technology
South Dakota School of Mines & Technology
University of California at Irvine
University of California at Berkeley
Ohio State University
University of Wuppertal
Ruhr University Bochum
Technical University of Munich
University of Rochester
University of Maryland, College Park
University of Padua
University of Kansas
Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory
RWTH Aachen University
Johannes Gutenberg University Mainz
Uppsala University
Georgia Institute of Technology

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Abstract

A supermassive black hole, obscured by cosmic dust, powers the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068. Neutrinos, which rarely interact with matter, could provide information on the galaxy's active core. We searched for neutrino emission from astrophysical objects using data recorded with the IceCube neutrino detector between 2011 and 2020. The positions of 110 known gamma-ray sources were individually searched for neutrino detections above atmospheric and cosmic backgrounds. We found that NGC 1068 has an excess of 79+2220 neutrinos at tera-electron volt energies, with a global significance of 4.2σ, which we interpret as associated with the active galaxy. The flux of high-energy neutrinos that we measured from NGC 1068 is more than an order of magnitude higher than the upper limit on emissions of tera-electron volt gamma rays from this source.

Original language	English
Pages (from-to)	538-543
Number of pages	6
Journal	Science
Volume	378
Issue number	6619
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.1126/science.abg3395
State	Published - Nov 4 2022

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Evidence for neutrino emission from the nearby active galaxy NGC 1068

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