IceCube Search for High-energy Neutrino Emission from TeV Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Icecube Collaboration

doi:10.3847/1538-4357/ab9fa0

IceCube Search for High-energy Neutrino Emission from TeV Pulsar Wind Nebulae

Icecube Collaboration

Physics and Astronomy

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

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Pulsar wind nebulae (PWNe) are the main gamma-ray emitters in the Galactic plane. They are diffuse nebulae that emit nonthermal radiation. Pulsar winds, relativistic magnetized outflows from the central star, shocked in the ambient medium produce a multiwavelength emission from the radio through gamma-rays. Although the leptonic scenario is able to explain most PWNe emission, a hadronic contribution cannot be excluded. A possible hadronic contribution to the high-energy gamma-ray emission inevitably leads to the production of neutrinos. Using 9.5 yr of all-sky IceCube data, we report results from a stacking analysis to search for neutrino emission from 35 PWNe that are high-energy gamma-ray emitters. In the absence of any significant correlation, we set upper limits on the total neutrino emission from those PWNe and constraints on hadronic spectral components.

Original language	English
Article number	117
Journal	Astrophysical Journal
Volume	898
Issue number	2
DOIs	https://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/ab9fa0
State	Published - Aug 1 2020

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IceCube Search for High-energy Neutrino Emission from TeV Pulsar Wind Nebulae

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