Speaker
Anna Franckowiak
(DESY)
Description
On September 22, 2017, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory observed for the first time ever an extremely high-energy neutrino IceCube-170922A in spatial and temporal coincidence with a gamma-ray flaring blazar, TXS 0506+056. Following the original IceCube alert, the source has been observed by several telescopes in a broad wavelength band. Most notably the Fermi Large Area Telescope has reported an increase of the source’s gamma-ray flux by a factor of ~6 compared to its average state. This triggered deep observations by MAGIC leading to the first detection of the source in very high-energy gamma-rays.
These detections motivated an archival search that identified additional IceCube events and multi-messenger data have been analyzed to better understand the physics and time-evolution of the object.
Author
Anna Franckowiak
(DESY)
