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Integral Fluxes of Neutrinos and Gamma-Rays Emitted from Neighboring X-ray Binaries

Published:2023-12-15 Issue:12 Volume:9 Page:517
ISSN:2218-1997
Container-title:Universe
language:en
Short-container-title:Universe

Author:

Kosmas Odysseas¹^ORCID,Papavasileiou Theodora²³^ORCID,Kosmas Theocharis²

Affiliation:

1. Conigital Ltd., 51 Parkside, Coventry CV1 2HG, UK

2. Department of Physics, University of Ioannina, GR-45110 Ioannina, Greece

3. Department of Informatics, University of Western Macedonia, GR-52100 Kastoria, Greece

Abstract

Astrophysical plasma ejections (jets) are formed and powered by black holes that accrete material from their companion star in binary systems. Black hole X-ray binary systems constitute potential powerful galactic and extragalactic neutrino and gamma-ray sources. After being accelerated to highly relativistic velocities and subjected to various energy-consuming interactions, the lepto-hadronic content of the jets produces secondary particles such as pions and muons that decay to gamma-ray photons and neutrinos heading towards the Earth. In this work, we employ a jet emission model in order to predict the neutrino and gamma-ray integral fluxes emanating from some of the most investigated and prominent stellar black hole X-ray binary systems in the Milky Way, such as GRO J1655-40, Cygnus X-1, SS 433, and GRS 1915+105. For the sake of comparison, we also include an extragalactic system, namely, LMC X-1, located in the Large Magellanic Cloud. For the case of gamma-ray emissions, we also include absorption effects due to X-ray emission from the accretion disk and the black hole corona, as well as ultraviolet (UV) emission from the binary system’s companion star.

Funder

The Association for Advancement of Research on Open Problems in Nuclear Physics and Particle Physics

Publisher

MDPI AG

Subject

General Physics and Astronomy

Link

https://www.mdpi.com/2218-1997/9/12/517/pdf

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