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dc.contributor.authorDas, Saikat-
dc.contributor.authorGupta, Nayantara-
dc.contributor.authorRazzaque, Soebur-
dc.date.accessioned2021-06-24T04:22:25Z-
dc.date.available2021-06-24T04:22:25Z-
dc.date.issued2021-04-
dc.identifier.citationThe Astrophysical Journal, 2021, Vol. 910, p100en_US
dc.identifier.issn0004-637X-
dc.identifier.issn1538-4357 (Online)-
dc.identifier.urihttp://hdl.handle.net/2289/7771-
dc.descriptionOpen Accessen_US
dc.description.abstractBlazars are potential sources of cosmic-ray acceleration up to ultrahigh energies (E gsim 1018 eV). For an efficient cosmic-ray injection from blazars, pγ collisions with extragalactic background light (EBL) and cosmic microwave background (CMB) can produce neutrino spectra with peaks near to PeV and EeV energies, respectively. In this work, we analyze the contribution of these neutrinos to the diffuse background measured by the IceCube neutrino observatory. The fraction of neutrino luminosity originating from individual redshift ranges is calculated using the distribution of BL Lacs and FSRQs provided in the Fermi-LAT 4LAC catalog. Furthermore, we use a luminosity-dependent density evolution to find the neutrino flux of unresolved blazars. The results obtained in our model indicate that as much as ≈10% of the flux upper bound at a few PeV energies can arise from cosmic-ray interactions with EBL. The same interactions will also produce secondary electrons and photons, initiating electromagnetic cascades. The resultant photon spectrum is limited by the isotropic diffuse γ-ray flux measured between 100 MeV and 820 GeV. The latter, together with the observed cosmic-ray flux at E > 1016.5 eV, can constrain the baryonic loading factor, depending on the maximum cosmic-ray acceleration energy.en_US
dc.language.isoenen_US
dc.publisherIOP Publishingen_US
dc.relation.urihttps://ui.adsabs.harvard.edu/abs/2021ApJ...910..100D/abstracten_US
dc.relation.urihttps://arxiv.org/abs/2012.13877en_US
dc.relation.urihttps://doi.org/10.3847/1538-4357/abe4cden_US
dc.rights2021, The American Astronomical Societyen_US
dc.subjectHigh-energy astrophysicsen_US
dc.subjectBlazarsen_US
dc.subjectRelativistic jetsen_US
dc.subjectGamma-raysen_US
dc.subjectNeutrino astronomyen_US
dc.subjectHigh-energy cosmic radiationen_US
dc.titlePeV–EeV Neutrinos from Gamma-Ray Blazars due to Ultrahigh-energy Cosmic-Ray Propagationen_US
dc.typeArticleen_US
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