Speaker
Description
High energy (HE) neutrinos have been observed by neutrino observatories for over a decade. Nevertheless, their origin and mechanisms responsible for their production still remain a mystery. Tidal disruption events (TDEs) have been proposed as candidate HE neutrino emitters, however a statistical association between the two has yet to be established. I will discuss results from the statistical association of a large sample of optical TDEs with neutrinos using TDECat and HE neutrino events observed by IceCube. While our analysis disfavors the association between neutrinos and the TDE population, we still find interesting associations with individual events including the jetted TDE Sw J2058+05. Our results highlight the need of upcoming surveys like LSST and next-generation neutrino observatories(e.g. KM3NET, IceCube-Gen2) to further test this potential correlation.
