Nature Communications (Sep 2021)

Soft gamma rays from low accreting supermassive black holes and connection to energetic neutrinos

  • Shigeo S. Kimura,
  • Kohta Murase,
  • Péter Mészáros

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41467-021-25111-7
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 12, no. 1
pp. 1 – 11

Abstract

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The origins of the soft gamma-ray and high-energy neutrino backgrounds remain unknown. Here, the authors show radiatively inefficient accretion flows of low-luminosity active galactic nuclei can produce the soft gamma ray and high energy neutrino backgrounds simultaneously.