Year: 2019
Type: article
Abstract: An overview about the multi-messenger capabilities of the Pierre Auger Observatory is presented. The techniques and performance of searching for Ultra-High Energy neutrinos, photons and neutrons are described. Some of the most relevant results are reviewed, such as stringent upper bounds that were placed to a flux of diffuse cosmogenic neutrinos and photons, bounds placed on neutrinos emitted from compact binary mergers that were detected by LIGO and Virgo during their first and second observing runs, as well as searches for high energy photons and neutrons from the galactic center that constrain the properties of the putative galactic PeVatron, observed by the H.E.S.S. collaboration. The observation of directional correlations between ultra-high energy cosmic rays and either high energy astrophysical neutrinos or specific source populations weighted by their electromagnetic radiation are also discussed. They constitute additional multi-messenger approaches aimed at identifying the sources of high energy cosmic rays.
Authors: Karl-Heinz Kampert, Miguel Alejandro Mostafa, Enrique Zas
Language: English
Subfield: Nuclear and High Energy Physics
Field: Physics and Astronomy
Domain: Physical Sciences
Open Access status: gold
Estimated APC paid: $1,150
Funders: National Science Foundation, U.S. Department of Energy, Grainger Foundation, Strong, European Commission, Deutsche Forschungsgemeinschaft, Agence Nationale de la Recherche, Fundação de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado de São Paulo, Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung, Consejo Nacional de Investigaciones Científicas y Técnicas, Consejo Nacional de Ciencia y Tecnología, Nederlandse Organisatie voor Wetenschappelijk Onderzoek, Ministero dell’Istruzione, dell’Università e della Ricerca, Conselho Nacional de Desenvolvimento Científico e Tecnológico, Javna Agencija za Raziskovalno Dejavnost RS, Fundação Carlos Chagas Filho de Amparo à Pesquisa do Estado do Rio de Janeiro, Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Financiadora de Estudos e Projetos, Istituto Nazionale di Astrofisica, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Ministerio de Asuntos Económicos y Transformación Digital, Gobierno de España, Xunta de Galicia, Junta de Andalucía, Ministério da Ciência, Tecnologia, Inovações e Comunicações, Istituto Nazionale di Fisica Nucleare, Helmholtz Alliance for Astroparticle Physics, Australian Research Council, Japan Society for the Promotion of Science, Fundação para a Ciência e a Tecnologia, Agencia Nacional de Promoción Científica y Tecnológica, Dirección General de Asuntos del Personal Académico, Universidad Nacional Autónoma de México, Institut National de Physique Nucléaire et de Physique des Particules, Colegiul Consultativ pentru Cercetare-Dezvoltare şi Inovare
Awards: G1126649899, Pierre Auger Project, G1151900320, G1404832668, G1496055848, G1516373214, G184749188, G1906513261, Pierre Auger Observatory, G2647246237, G2692091728, G2717377659, G3175263447, G3579873031, Study of cosmic rays of highest energies with the Pierre Auger Observatory, Race in the Histories of Science and Medicine: A Review Essay and a Research Agenda, G4344075577, G4820567559, G4866930200, G5117166971, G5145058842, G5237063139, G5615659713, G5616713406, G5840225288, An energy calibration of ultrahigh-energy cosmic ray observatories using new air-fluorescence telescopes, G585908603, G6209881064, Sorbonne Universités à Paris pour l'Enseignement et la Recherche, G7240651115, G7376787254, G7378882120, G7512206404, G7517989378, STUDIES OF HIGH ENERGY PARTICLE ASTROPHYSICS, European Particle physics Latin American NETwork, G7720562802, G86560745
OpenAlex ID: W2941075069