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Identifying Galactic sources of high-energy neutrinos

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High-energy neutrinos present the ultimate signature for a cosmic ray accelerator. Galactic sources responsible for acceleration of cosmic ray up to the knee in cosmic ray spectrum will provide a guaranteed, albeit subdominant, contribution to the high-energy cosmic neutrino flux. In this review, we discuss the the prospects for identification of high-energy neutrinos from sources of the very high energy gamma ray emission in the Milky Way. We present the status of the search for point-like and extended emission from these sources, and describe how the results of these studies indicate that neutrino telescopes are closing in on identifying Galactic sources of high-energy neutrinos.

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  1. Deep Underwater Muon And Neutrino Detector Project.

  2. Antarctic Muon And Neutrino Detector Array.

  3. For a comprehensive history of neutrino astronomy and development of neutrino detectors see Spiering (2012).

  4. High Energy Stereoscopic System.

  5. Very Energetic Radiation Imaging Telescope Array System.

  6. Major Atmospheric Gamma-Ray Imaging Cherenkov.

  7. High Altitude Water Cherenkov.

  8. tevcat.uchicago.edu.

  9. Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope.

  10. High-Energy-Gamma-Ray Astronomy.

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The author would like to thank Francis Halzen, Kohta Murase, and Ibrahim Safa for useful comments and discussions. The author also acknowledges the IGC Postdoctoral Award.

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Correspondence to Ali Kheirandish.

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Kheirandish, A. Identifying Galactic sources of high-energy neutrinos. Astrophys Space Sci 365, 108 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s10509-020-03816-3

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