Neutrino Emission from Proton Photon Jet Interactions in Microquasars

Microquasars are candidate sites for high energy particle production within our galaxy. Because their distances and compact emission regions limit direct observational constraints, numerical simulations are useful for connecting jet dynamics with possible multi messenger signatures. This work models neutrino production from relativistic magnetohydrodynamic microquasar jets, focusing on the proton photon channel associated with interactions between accelerated protons and ambient photon fields. Proton proton interactions are acknowledged as a possible process in dense environments, but they are not modeled in the present calculation. A ray tracing procedure is applied to the hydrodynamic simulation output to produce synthetic neutrino images from the perspective of a stationary observer. Synthetic spectra and intensity maps are presented and compared with representative sensitivities of current and future neutrino detectors.