A Unique Messenger to Probe Active Galactic Nuclei:
​High-Energy Neutrinos

Astro2020 Decadal Survey White Paper

The detection of astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube and the evidence for neutrino emission from a blazar offer exciting opportunities for the study of high-energy neutrinos and photons from AGN in the coming decade. We advocate for a multi-messenger approach that combines high-energy neutrino observations performed by telescopes that will come online in the next decade, and  multi-wavelength EM observations by existing and future instruments, with an emphasis on soft X-ray to VHE gamma-ray coverage. The unique capabilities of these instruments combined promise to solve several long-standing issues in our understanding of AGN, the most powerful and  persistent cosmic accelerators.

The white paper has now been submitted to the Astro2020 decadal survey. You can find the submitted version in the arXiv.

Authors

Sara Buson – University of Würzburg
Ke Fang – Stanford University 
Azadeh Keivani – Columbia University 
Thomas Maccarone – Texas Tech University
Kohta Murase – Pennsylvania State University
Maria Petropoulou – Princeton University  
Marcos Santander* – University of Alabama
Ignacio Taboada – Georgia Institute of Technology
Nathan Whitehorn – University of California – Los Angeles

*Leading author: ​ jmsantander@ua.edu

More information on the decadal survey is available here.