PoS - Proceedings of Science
Volume 444 - 38th International Cosmic Ray Conference (ICRC2023) - Multi Messenger and Gravitational Wave (MM&GW)
Flare Duty Cycle and Energy Fraction of Gamma-Ray Blazars and Implications for High-Energy Neutrinos
K. Yoshida*, M. Petropoulou, K. Murase and F. Oikonomou
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Pre-published on: July 25, 2023
Published on: September 27, 2024
Abstract
According to the three-sigma high-energy neutrino source association of IC-170922A with a gamma-ray flare of a blazar TXS 0506+056, it is expected that gamma-ray flares of blazars would be ideal periods for high-energy neutrino emission. In this work, we present our findings from analyzing 145 gamma-ray bright blazars observed by Fermi-LAT to determine the contribution of gamma-ray blazar flares to high-energy neutrino emission. We derived the flare duty cycle and energy fraction from the weekly binned light curves of these blazars, identifying a significant difference in flare duty cycles between FSRQs and BL Lacs at a significance level of 5 %. We also estimated the neutrino energy flux of each gamma-ray flare using a general scaling relation for the neutrino and gamma-ray luminosities, 𝐿𝜈 ∝ (𝐿𝛾)^𝛾 with 𝛾 = 1.0 − 2.0, normalized to the quiescent gamma-ray and X-ray flux of each blazar. Lastly we present the upper-limit contribution of gamma-ray blazars to the isotropic diffuse neutrino flux.
DOI: https://doi.org/10.22323/1.444.1475
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