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VLBI Scrutiny of a New Neutrino-Blazar Multiwavelength-Flare Coincidence

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  11 September 2023

F. Eppel
Affiliation:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Astronomie, Emil-Fischer-Straße 31, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
M. Kadler
Affiliation:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Astronomie, Emil-Fischer-Straße 31, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
E. Ros
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
F. Rösch
Affiliation:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Astronomie, Emil-Fischer-Straße 31, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
J. Heßdörfer
Affiliation:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Astronomie, Emil-Fischer-Straße 31, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
P. Benke
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
P. G. Edwards
Affiliation:
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, ATNF, PO Box 76. Epping NSW 1710. Australia
C. M. Fromm
Affiliation:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Astronomie, Emil-Fischer-Straße 31, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
M. Giroletti
Affiliation:
INAF, Istituto di Radio Astronomia, Via Piero Gobetti, 41029 Bologna, Italy
A. Gokus
Affiliation:
McDonnell Center for Space Science, Washington University, MSC 1105-109-03, One Brookings Drive, St. Louis, MO 63130-4899, USA
J. L. Gómez
Affiliation:
Instituto de Astrofsica de Andaluca, Gta. de la Astronomia, 18008 Granada, Spain
S. Hämmerich
Affiliation:
Remeis Observatory and Erlangen Centre for Astroparticle Physics, Universität Erlangen-Nürnberg, Sternwartstr. 7, 96049 Bamberg, Germany
D. Kirchner
Affiliation:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Astronomie, Emil-Fischer-Straße 31, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
Y. Y. Kovalev
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninskii pr. 53, 119991, Moscow, Russia
T. P. Krichbaum
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
M. L. Lister
Affiliation:
Department of Physics and Astronomy, Purdue University, 525 Northwestern Avenue, West Lafayette, IN 47907, USA
C. Nanci
Affiliation:
INAF, Istituto di Radio Astronomia, Via Piero Gobetti, 41029 Bologna, Italy
R. Ojha
Affiliation:
NASA, Goddard Space Flight Center, Astrophysics Science Division, Code 661, Greenbelt, MD 20071, USA
G. F. Paraschos
Affiliation:
Max-Planck-Institut für Radioastronomie, Auf dem Hügel 69, 53121 Bonn, Germany
A. Plavin
Affiliation:
Lebedev Physical Institute, Leninskii pr. 53, 119991, Moscow, Russia
A. C. S. Readhead
Affiliation:
California Institute of Technology, 1200 E California Blvd, Pasadena, CA 91125, USA
J. Stevens
Affiliation:
CSIRO Astronomy and Space Science, ATNF, PO Box 76. Epping NSW 1710. Australia
P. Weber
Affiliation:
Julius-Maximilians-Universität Würzburg, Physikalisches Institut, Lehrstuhl für Astronomie, Emil-Fischer-Straße 31, 97074 Würzburg, Germany
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In recent years, evidence has started piling up that some high-energy cosmic neutrinos can be associated with blazars in flaring states. On 2022 February 26, a new blazar-neutrino coincidence was reported: the track-like neutrino event IC220225A detected by IceCube is spatially coincident with the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 0215+015. Like previous associations, this source was found to be in a high optical and γ-ray state. Moreover, the source showed a bright radio outburst, which substantially increases the probability of a true physical association. We have performed six observations with the VLBA shortly after the neutrino event with a monthly cadence and are monitoring the source with the Effelsberg 100m-Telescope, and with the Australia Compact Telescope Array. Here, we present first results on the contemporary parsec-scale jet structure of PKS 0215+015 in total intensity and polarization to constrain possible physical processes leading to neutrino emission in blazars.

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