- First Name:Matthew
- Last Name:Bayer
- Working Group Presenter
- Title:Joint multi-wavelength observations of blazars with WIYN-VERITAS-IceCube
- Presentation Type:Poster
- Presentation Work Group:Gamma Astronomy
- Abstract:Multi-band observations of known TeV blazars to date seem to be well explained by leptonic synchrotron inverse-Compton models. Nonetheless, there may be an hadronic mechanism involved as well in
powerful sources of cosmic rays such as hadrons accelerated in blazar jets. Neutrino detection from these sources would be evidence for such a scenario. Given the possible correlation between TeV photons and neutrinos from pion decays, neutrino discovery potential can be enhanced looking for coincidences
with TeV flares or studying correlations with X-ray and gamma-ray luminosity curve time behavior.
We are studying the long term TeV gamma data from Whipple to understand the relevance of the short term data in the observation period and of the observed flux variations. VERITAS data are going to be used to define the analysis parameters for the future analysis of IceCube/AMANDA data looking for neutrinos in coincidence with TeV gammas. TBA