Multi-messenger astrophysics with the cosmic neutrino background
Creators
- 1. Department of Physics, Princeton University, Princeton, New Jersey 08544 (United States)
- 2. Department of Physics, Harvard University, Cambridge, Massachusetts 02138 (United States)
Description
The massive neutrinos of the Cosmic Neutrino Background (CνB) are fundamental ingredients of the radiation-dominated early universe and are important non-relativistic probes of the large-scale structure formation in the late universe. The dominant source of anisotropies in the neutrino flux distribution on the sky are highly amplified integrals of metric perturbations encountered during the non-relativistic phase of the CνB. This paper numerically compares the line-of-sight methods for computing CνB anisotropies with the Einstein-Boltzmann hierarchy solutions in linear theory for a range of neutrino masses. Angular power spectra are computed that are relevant to a future polarized tritium target run of the PTOLEMY experiment. Correlations between the CνB sky maps and galactic survey data are derived using line-of-sight techniques and discussed in the context of multi-messenger astrophysics. (paper)
Availability note (English)
Available from http://dx.doi.org/10.1088/1475-7516/2021/06/053Additional details
Identifiers
Publishing Information
- Journal Title
- Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics
- Journal Volume
- 2021
- Journal Issue
- 06
- Journal Page Range
- [14 p.]
- ISSN
- 1475-7516
INIS
- Country of Publication
- United Kingdom
- Country of Input or Organization
- International Atomic Energy Agency (IAEA)
- INIS RN
- 53100010
- Subject category
- S79: ASTROPHYSICS, COSMOLOGY AND ASTRONOMY;
- Descriptors DEI
- ANISOTROPY; ASTROPHYSICS; COSMIC NEUTRINOS; RELATIVISTIC RANGE; TRITIUM TARGET
- Descriptors DEC
- COSMIC RADIATION; ELEMENTARY PARTICLES; ENERGY RANGE; FERMIONS; IONIZING RADIATIONS; LEPTONS; MASSLESS PARTICLES; NEUTRINOS; PHYSICS; RADIATIONS; TARGETS