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Candidate Tidal Disruption Event AT2019fdr Coincident with a High-Energy Neutrino
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Candidate Tidal Disruption Event AT2019fdr Coincident with a High-Energy Neutrino

Simeon Reusch, Robert Stein, Marek Kowalski, Sjoert Van Velzen, Anna Franckowiak, Cecilia Lunardini, Kohta Murase, Walter Winter, James C. A. Miller-Jones, Mansi M. Kasliwal, …
Physical Review Letters, 卷.128(22), 221101
06/2022
PMID: 35714251

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Physics and Astronomy (all)
The origins of the high-energy cosmic neutrino flux remain largely unknown. Recently, one high-energy neutrino was associated with a tidal disruption event (TDE). Here we present AT2019fdr, an exceptionally luminous TDE candidate, coincident with another high-energy neutrino. Our observations, including a bright dust echo and soft late-time x-ray emission, further support a TDE origin of this flare. The probability of finding two such bright events by chance is just 0.034%. We evaluate several models for neutrino production and show that AT2019fdr is capable of producing the observed high-energy neutrino, reinforcing the case for TDEs as neutrino sources.

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