doi: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.221101.
Candidate Tidal Disruption Event AT2019fdr Coincident with a High-Energy Neutrino
Simeon Reusch
1
2
, Robert Stein
1
2
3
, Marek Kowalski
1
2
, Sjoert van Velzen
4
, Anna Franckowiak
1
5
, Cecilia Lunardini
6
, Kohta Murase
7
8
, Walter Winter
1
, James C A Miller-Jones
9
, Mansi M Kasliwal
3
, Marat Gilfanov
10
11
, Simone Garrappa
1
2
, Vaidehi S Paliya
12
, Tomás Ahumada
13
, Shreya Anand
3
, Cristina Barbarino
14
, Eric C Bellm
15
, Valéry Brinnel
2
, Sara Buson
16
, S Bradley Cenko
17
18
, Michael W Coughlin
19
, Kishalay De
3
, Richard Dekany
20
, Sara Frederick
13
, Avishay Gal-Yam
21
, Suvi Gezari
13
22
, Marcello Giroletti
23
, Matthew J Graham
3
, Viraj Karambelkar
3
, Shigeo S Kimura
24
, Albert K H Kong
25
, Erik C Kool
14
, Russ R Laher
26
, Pavel Medvedev
10
, Jannis Necker
1
2
, Jakob Nordin
2
, Daniel A Perley
27
, Mickael Rigault
28
, Ben Rusholme
26
, Steve Schulze
29
, Tassilo Schweyer
14
, Leo P Singer
30
, Jesper Sollerman
14
, Nora Linn Strotjohann
21
, Rashid Sunyaev
10
11
, Jakob van Santen
1
, Richard Walters
20
, B Theodore Zhang
8
, Erez Zimmerman
21
Affiliations
Affiliations
- 1 Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
- 2 Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
- 3 Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 249-17, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 4 Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Postbus 9513, 2300 RA, Leiden, Netherlands.
- 5 Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
- 6 Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504, USA.
- 7 Department of Physics; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
- 8 Center for Gravitational Physics, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
- 9 International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Washington 6845, Australia.
- 10 Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow 117997, Russia.
- 11 Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-85741 Garching, Germany.
- 12 Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital-263001 Uttarakhand, India.
- 13 Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
- 14 Department of Astronomy, The Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
- 15 DIRAC Institute, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, 3910 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
- 16 Institut für Theoretische Physik and Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.
- 17 Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
- 18 Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
- 19 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
- 20 Caltech Optical Observatories, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 249-17, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 21 Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 234 Herzl Street 76100 Rehovot, Israel.
- 22 Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
- 23 INAF - Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna, via Gobetti 93/3, I-40129 Bologna, Italy.
- 24 Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences; Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8574, Japan.
- 25 Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101 Section 2 Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan.
- 26 IPAC, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 249-17, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 27 Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, United Kingdom.
- 28 Univ Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, UMR 5822, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
- 29 The Oskar Klein Centre, Physics Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Albanova University Center, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
- 30 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
- PMID: 35714251
- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.221101
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Candidate Tidal Disruption Event AT2019fdr Coincident with a High-Energy Neutrino
Simeon Reusch et al.
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Simeon Reusch
1
2
, Robert Stein
1
2
3
, Marek Kowalski
1
2
, Sjoert van Velzen
4
, Anna Franckowiak
1
5
, Cecilia Lunardini
6
, Kohta Murase
7
8
, Walter Winter
1
, James C A Miller-Jones
9
, Mansi M Kasliwal
3
, Marat Gilfanov
10
11
, Simone Garrappa
1
2
, Vaidehi S Paliya
12
, Tomás Ahumada
13
, Shreya Anand
3
, Cristina Barbarino
14
, Eric C Bellm
15
, Valéry Brinnel
2
, Sara Buson
16
, S Bradley Cenko
17
18
, Michael W Coughlin
19
, Kishalay De
3
, Richard Dekany
20
, Sara Frederick
13
, Avishay Gal-Yam
21
, Suvi Gezari
13
22
, Marcello Giroletti
23
, Matthew J Graham
3
, Viraj Karambelkar
3
, Shigeo S Kimura
24
, Albert K H Kong
25
, Erik C Kool
14
, Russ R Laher
26
, Pavel Medvedev
10
, Jannis Necker
1
2
, Jakob Nordin
2
, Daniel A Perley
27
, Mickael Rigault
28
, Ben Rusholme
26
, Steve Schulze
29
, Tassilo Schweyer
14
, Leo P Singer
30
, Jesper Sollerman
14
, Nora Linn Strotjohann
21
, Rashid Sunyaev
10
11
, Jakob van Santen
1
, Richard Walters
20
, B Theodore Zhang
8
, Erez Zimmerman
21
Affiliations
- 1 Deutsches Elektronen Synchrotron DESY, Platanenallee 6, D-15738 Zeuthen, Germany.
- 2 Institut für Physik, Humboldt-Universität zu Berlin, D-12489 Berlin, Germany.
- 3 Division of Physics, Mathematics, and Astronomy, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 249-17, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 4 Leiden Observatory, Leiden University, Postbus 9513, 2300 RA, Leiden, Netherlands.
- 5 Fakultät für Physik und Astronomie, Ruhr-Universität Bochum, D-44780 Bochum, Germany.
- 6 Department of Physics, Arizona State University, Tempe, Arizona 85287-1504, USA.
- 7 Department of Physics; Department of Astronomy and Astrophysics; Center for Multimessenger Astrophysics, Institute for Gravitation and the Cosmos, The Pennsylvania State University, University Park, Pennsylvania 16802, USA.
- 8 Center for Gravitational Physics, Yukawa Institute for Theoretical Physics, Kyoto University, Kyoto, Kyoto 606-8502, Japan.
- 9 International Centre for Radio Astronomy Research - Curtin University, GPO Box U1987, Perth, Washington 6845, Australia.
- 10 Space Research Institute (IKI), Russian Academy of Sciences, Profsoyuznaya ul. 84/32, Moscow 117997, Russia.
- 11 Max-Planck-Institut für Astrophysik, Karl-Schwarzschild-Str. 1, D-85741 Garching, Germany.
- 12 Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES), Manora Peak, Nainital-263001 Uttarakhand, India.
- 13 Department of Astronomy, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
- 14 Department of Astronomy, The Oskar Klein Centre, Stockholm University, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
- 15 DIRAC Institute, Department of Astronomy, University of Washington, 3910 15th Avenue NE, Seattle, Washington 98195, USA.
- 16 Institut für Theoretische Physik and Astrophysik, Universität Würzburg, D-97074 Würzburg, Germany.
- 17 Astrophysics Science Division, NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, 8800 Greenbelt Road, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
- 18 Joint Space-Science Institute, University of Maryland, College Park, Maryland 20742, USA.
- 19 School of Physics and Astronomy, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis, Minnesota 55455, USA.
- 20 Caltech Optical Observatories, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 249-17, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 21 Department of Particle Physics and Astrophysics, Weizmann Institute of Science, 234 Herzl Street 76100 Rehovot, Israel.
- 22 Space Telescope Science Institute, 3700 San Martin Drive, Baltimore, Maryland 21218, USA.
- 23 INAF - Osservatorio di Astrofisica e Scienza dello Spazio di Bologna, via Gobetti 93/3, I-40129 Bologna, Italy.
- 24 Frontier Research Institute for Interdisciplinary Sciences; Astronomical Institute, Tohoku University, Sendai 980-8574, Japan.
- 25 Institute of Astronomy, National Tsing Hua University, No. 101 Section 2 Kuang-Fu Road, Hsinchu 30013, Taiwan.
- 26 IPAC, California Institute of Technology, 1200 East California Boulevard, MC 249-17, Pasadena, California 91125, USA.
- 27 Astrophysics Research Institute, Liverpool John Moores University, 146 Brownlow Hill, Liverpool L3 5RF, United Kingdom.
- 28 Univ Lyon, Univ Claude Bernard Lyon 1, CNRS/IN2P3, UMR 5822, F-69622 Villeurbanne, France.
- 29 The Oskar Klein Centre, Physics Department of Physics, Stockholm University, Albanova University Center, SE-106 91 Stockholm, Sweden.
- 30 NASA Goddard Space Flight Center, University of Maryland, Baltimore County, Greenbelt, Maryland 20771, USA.
- PMID: 35714251
- DOI: 10.1103/PhysRevLett.128.221101
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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.