% IMPORTANT: The following is UTF-8 encoded. This means that in the presence % of non-ASCII characters, it will not work with BibTeX 0.99 or older. % Instead, you should use an up-to-date BibTeX implementation like “bibtex8” or % “biber”. @ARTICLE{Fiorillo:630941, author = {Fiorillo, Damiano Francesco Giuseppe and Testagrossa, Federico and Petropoulou, Maria and Winter, Walter}, title = {{C}an the neutrinos from {TXS} 0506+056 have a coronal origin?}, journal = {The astrophysical journal / Part 1}, volume = {986}, issn = {0004-637X}, address = {London}, publisher = {Institute of Physics Publ.}, reportid = {PUBDB-2025-01901, arXiv:2502.01738}, pages = {104}, year = {2025}, note = {7 pages, 2 figures, plus appendices}, abstract = {The blazar TXS 0506+056 has been the first astrophysical source associated with high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, and it has emerged as the second-most-prominent hotspot in the neutrino sky over ten years of observations. Although neutrino production in blazars has traditionally been attributed to processes in the powerful relativistic jet, the observation of a significant neutrino flux from NGC 1068 -- presumably coming from the Active Galactic Nucleus (AGN) corona -- suggests that neutrinos can also be produced in the cores of AGN. This raises the question whether neutrino production in TXS~0506+056 is also associated with the core region. We study this scenario, focusing on the hypothesis that this blazar is a masquerading BL Lac, a high-excitation quasar with hidden broad emission lines and a standard accretion disk. We show that magnetic reconnection is an acceleration process necessary to reach tens of PeV proton energies, and we use observationally motivated estimates of the X-ray luminosity of the coronal region to predict the emission of secondaries and compare them to the observed multi-wavelength and neutrino spectra of the source. We find that the coronal neutrino emission from TXS 0506+056 is too low to describe the IceCube observed neutrinos from this AGN, which in turn suggests that the blazar jet remains the preferred location for neutrino production.}, cin = {$Z_THAT$}, ddc = {520}, cid = {$I:(DE-H253)Z_THAT-20210408$}, pnm = {613 - Matter and Radiation from the Universe (POF4-613)}, pid = {G:(DE-HGF)POF4-613}, experiment = {EXP:(DE-MLZ)NOSPEC-20140101}, typ = {PUB:(DE-HGF)16}, eprint = {2502.01738}, howpublished = {arXiv:2502.01738}, archivePrefix = {arXiv}, SLACcitation = {$\%\%CITATION$ = $arXiv:2502.01738;\%\%$}, doi = {10.3847/1538-4357/add267}, url = {https://bib-pubdb1.desy.de/record/630941}, }