ERC Project Presentation: Mapping Highly-Energetic Messengers throughout the Universe

by Sara Buson (University of Wuerzburg)

Friday 25 Sept 2020, 15:00 → 17:00 Europe/Rome

https://unipd.zoom.us/j/94704794315

Cosmic rays prove that our Universe hosts elusive astrophysical "monsters" capable of continuously and efficiently accelerating particles at extreme energies.  High-energy photons and neutrinos are the key to ultimately decipher the mystery of cosmic rays. In 2017, the discovery of neutrino emission from the direction of the gamma-ray flaring blazar TXS 0506+056 has put forward gamma-ray blazars as promising neutrino point-sources, hence cosmic-ray accelerators.  However, to date there is neither a consistent picture for the physical mechanism nor a theoretical framework capable of convincingly explain the full set of multi-messenger observations. I will present initial encouraging steps in this multimessenger (electromagnetic and neutrino) field and discuss the rewarding potential of future studies.