Neutrino Emission from Jet Interactions in Microquasars

Microquasars serve as candidate sites for high-energy particle production within our Galaxy. Due to their distances, direct observations are relatively limited, necessitating detailed simulations, in order to connect observations to theory. This work models high-energy particle emission from relativistic magneto-hydrodynamic microquasar jets. The focus is on neutrino production enhanced by an intermittent jet’s plasmoid collisions with ambient photon fields, found in the surrounding medium. An advanced ray-tracing algorithm processes hydrodynamic simulation data to generate synthetic neutrino images from a stationary observer’s perspective. Synthetic spectra and intensity maps are also produced and can be compared with observations from current and future detectors.