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T: Fachverband Teilchenphysik

T 48: Neutrinoastronomie III

T 48.9: Talk

Wednesday, March 21, 2018, 18:30–18:45, Philo-HS1

Neutrinos and Gravitational Waves from Systems of Supermassive Black Holes — •Mario Hörbe — Ruhr-Universität Bochum

The last years in astro- and particle physics yielded two century breakthroughs for science: From the observation of very-high-energy neutrinos (HEν) by the IceCube Observatory at the Geographic South Pole up to the detection of gravitational waves (GW) by LIGO, physics has achieved in months what had been considered elusive for decades.

Joint HEν+GW observations could open up unique windows into the very deep insides of opaque astrophysical phenomena which otherwise cannot be resolved in other messengers such as charged nuclei or photons. Among the most fascinating yet mostly unexplored phenomena that can be investigated by joint HEν+GW observations are the center regions of active galaxies that host two supermassive black holes. Especially the black-hole-dynamics of such systems suggest to pose numerous HEν production sites in e.g. jets as well as GW emission in case of an imminent merger of the two nuclei.

I investigate possible correlations between these messengers within my PhD research, supported by the Studienstiftung des deutschen Volkes, by using both analytical approaches and Monte-Carlo-simulations based on the CRPropa3 framework. The status and perspectives of my project on HEν+GW modeling of binary AGN will be presented and set in context to current detectors such as IceCube and LIGO.