Foteini Oikonomou
About
Foteini Oikonomou is an associate professor of physics. She is a theoretical astroparticle physicist working to understand how extreme astrophysical environments accelerate particles and radiation to energies exceeding 10^20 electronvolt (more than a million times higher than the energy of protons accelerated at the Large Hadron Collider at CERN). She has advanced the technique of modelling the multimessenger (radiation, cosmic-ray and neutrino) emission of active galactic nuclei which allows astrophysicists to determine the physical conditions in these objects. Her group studies the multimessenger emission of active galactic nuclei and various transient phenomena such as blazar flares and tidal disruption events.
Key Publications:
High-energy neutrino flux from individual blazar flares, F. Oikonomou, K. Murase, P. Padovani, E. Resconi, P. Meszaros, 2019, MNRAS 489 (2019) 4347
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy, C. Guepin, K. Kotera, F. Oikonomou, Nature Reviews Physics (2022)
TXS 0506+056, the first cosmic neutrino source in not a BL Lac, P. Padovani, F. Oikonomou, M. Petropoulou, P. Giommi, E. Resconi, MNRAS L18 (2019)
All Publications:
Publications
2024
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Ehlert, Domenik;
van Vliet, Arjen;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Winter, Walter.
(2024)
Constraints on the proton fraction of cosmic rays at the highest energies and the consequences for cosmogenic neutrinos and photons.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)
Academic article
-
Rodrigues, X.;
Karl, M.;
Padovani, P.;
Giommi, P.;
Paiano, S.;
Falomo, R..
(2024)
The Spectra of IceCube Neutrino (SIN) candidate sources V. Modeling and interpretation of multiwavelength and neutrino data.
Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
Academic article
2023
-
Schumacher, Lisa Johanna;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2023)
Prospects for the detection of transient neutrino sources with PLEnuM.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Lai, Paul C. W.;
Agostini, Matteo;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Crudele, Beatrice;
Owen, Ellis R.;
Wu, Kinwah.
(2023)
Neutrino imaging of the Galactic Centre and Millisecond Pulsar Population.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Schroeder, Frank;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
authors, 96 more.
(2023)
Snowmass UHECR Whitepaper: Requirements on Future Instrumentation.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Sarazin, Fred;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
international authors, 96 additional.
(2023)
“Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Rays (UHECR): at the Intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers” -- Overview of the Snowmass UHECR white paper and roadmap.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Ehlert, Domenik;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Unger, Michael.
(2023)
Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays from a Population of Non-identical Sources.
The European Physical Journal Conferences
Academic article
-
Yoshida, Kenji;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Murase, Kohta;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2023)
Flare Duty Cycle and Energy Fraction of Gamma-Ray Blazars and Implications for High-Energy Neutrinos.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Eichmann, Björn;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Salvatore, Silvia;
Dettmar, Ralf-Jürgen;
Tjus, Julia Becker.
(2023)
Disentangling the multi-messenger puzzle of the AGN-starburst composite galaxy NGC 1068.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Coleman, A.;
Eser, J.;
Mayotte, E.;
Sarazin, E.;
Schröder, F.G.;
Soldin, D..
(2023)
Ultra high energy cosmic rays
The intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
-
Oikonomou, Foteini;
international authors, 83 additional.
(2023)
Science with the Global Cosmic-ray Observatory (GCOS).
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Ehlert, Domenik;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Unger, Michael.
(2023)
The Curious Case of the Maximum Rigidity Distribution of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic-Ray Accelerators.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Ehlert, Domenik;
Vliet, Arjen Van;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Winter, Walter.
(2023)
Multimessenger diffuse fluxes from a subdominant source population emitting UHE protons.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Ehlert, Domenik;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Unger, Michael.
(2023)
Curious case of the maximum rigidity distribution of cosmic-ray accelerators.
Physical Review D
Academic article
-
Yoshida, Kenji;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Murase, Kohta;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2023)
Flare Duty Cycle of Gamma-Ray Blazars and Implications for High-energy Neutrino Emission.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
2022
-
Padovani, P.;
Giommi, P.;
Falomo, R.;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Petropoulou, M.;
Glauch, T..
(2022)
The spectra of IceCube neutrino (SIN) candidate sources - II. Source characterization.
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Academic article
-
Wang, Ze-Rui;
Liu, Ruo-Yu;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Xue, Rui;
Wang, Xiang-Yu.
(2022)
Unified model for orphan and multiwavelength blazar flares.
Physical Review D
Academic article
-
Addazi, A.;
Alvarez-Muniz, J.;
Alves Batista, R.;
Amelino-Camelia, G.;
Antonelli, V.;
Arzano, M..
(2022)
Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era—A review.
Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
Academic literature review
-
Eichmann, Björn;
Kachelriess, Michael;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2022)
Explaining the UHECR spectrum, composition and large-scale anisotropies with radio galaxies.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)
Academic article
-
Guépin, Claire;
Kotera, Kumiko;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2022)
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy.
Nature Reviews Physics
Academic literature review
-
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2022)
High-energy neutrino emission from blazars.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2022)
Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays: The Intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers.
Astroparticle physics
Academic article
-
Eichmann, Björn;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Salvatore, Silvia;
Dettmar, Ralf-Jürgen;
Tjus, Julia Becker.
(2022)
Solving the Multimessenger Puzzle of the AGN-starburst Composite Galaxy NGC 1068.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
2021
-
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Murase, Kohta;
Tohuvavohu, Aaron;
Vasilopoulos, Georgios;
Buson, Sara.
(2021)
Multi-messenger emission from the parsec-scale jet of the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1502+106 coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-190730A.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)
Academic literature review
-
Olinto, A.V.;
Krizmanic, J.;
Adams, J.H.;
Aloisio, R.;
Anchordoqui, L.A.;
Anzalone, A..
(2021)
The POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) observatory.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)
Academic literature review
-
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Yoshida, Kenji;
Murase, Kohta;
Petropoulou, Maria.
(2021)
The Neutrino Contribution of Gamma-Ray Flares from Fermi Bright Blazars.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Schumacher, Lisa;
Huber, Matthias;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Bustamante, Mauricio;
Resconi, Elisa;
agostini, matteo.
(2021)
PLEnuM: A global and distributed monitoring system of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Wang, Ze-Rui;
Liu, Ruo-Yu;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Xue, Rui;
Wang, Xiang-Yu.
(2021)
A unified model for orphan and multi-wavelength blazar flares.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2021)
The Blazar Hadronic Code Comparison Project.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
2020
-
Giommi, P.;
Padovani, P.;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Glauch, T.;
Paiano, S.;
Resconi, E..
(2020)
3HSP J095507.9+355101: A flaring extreme blazar coincident in space and time with IceCube-200107A.
Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
Academic article
-
Petropoulou, Maria;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Mastichiadis, Apostolos;
Murase, Kohta;
Padovani, Paolo;
Vasilopoulos, Georgios.
(2020)
Comprehensive Multimessenger Modeling of the Extreme Blazar 3HSP J095507.9+355101 and Predictions for IceCube.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
-
Murase, Kohta;
Kimura, Shigeo S.;
Zhang, B. Theodore;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Petropoulou, Maria.
(2020)
High-Energy Neutrino and Gamma-Ray Emission from Tidal Disruption Events.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
-
Zhang, Bing;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Murase, Kohta;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2020)
A Neutral Beam Model for High-Energy Neutrino Emission from the Blazar TXS 0506+056.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
-
Toomey, Michael;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Murase, Kohta.
(2020)
Gamma-ray counterparts of 2WHSP high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac objects as possible signatures of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray emission.
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Academic article
Journal publications
-
Ehlert, Domenik;
van Vliet, Arjen;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Winter, Walter.
(2024)
Constraints on the proton fraction of cosmic rays at the highest energies and the consequences for cosmogenic neutrinos and photons.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)
Academic article
-
Rodrigues, X.;
Karl, M.;
Padovani, P.;
Giommi, P.;
Paiano, S.;
Falomo, R..
(2024)
The Spectra of IceCube Neutrino (SIN) candidate sources V. Modeling and interpretation of multiwavelength and neutrino data.
Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
Academic article
-
Schumacher, Lisa Johanna;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2023)
Prospects for the detection of transient neutrino sources with PLEnuM.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Lai, Paul C. W.;
Agostini, Matteo;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Crudele, Beatrice;
Owen, Ellis R.;
Wu, Kinwah.
(2023)
Neutrino imaging of the Galactic Centre and Millisecond Pulsar Population.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Schroeder, Frank;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
authors, 96 more.
(2023)
Snowmass UHECR Whitepaper: Requirements on Future Instrumentation.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Sarazin, Fred;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
international authors, 96 additional.
(2023)
“Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Rays (UHECR): at the Intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers” -- Overview of the Snowmass UHECR white paper and roadmap.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Ehlert, Domenik;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Unger, Michael.
(2023)
Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays from a Population of Non-identical Sources.
The European Physical Journal Conferences
Academic article
-
Yoshida, Kenji;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Murase, Kohta;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2023)
Flare Duty Cycle and Energy Fraction of Gamma-Ray Blazars and Implications for High-Energy Neutrinos.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Eichmann, Björn;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Salvatore, Silvia;
Dettmar, Ralf-Jürgen;
Tjus, Julia Becker.
(2023)
Disentangling the multi-messenger puzzle of the AGN-starburst composite galaxy NGC 1068.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Coleman, A.;
Eser, J.;
Mayotte, E.;
Sarazin, E.;
Schröder, F.G.;
Soldin, D..
(2023)
Ultra high energy cosmic rays
The intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
-
Oikonomou, Foteini;
international authors, 83 additional.
(2023)
Science with the Global Cosmic-ray Observatory (GCOS).
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Ehlert, Domenik;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Unger, Michael.
(2023)
The Curious Case of the Maximum Rigidity Distribution of Ultra-high Energy Cosmic-Ray Accelerators.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Ehlert, Domenik;
Vliet, Arjen Van;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Winter, Walter.
(2023)
Multimessenger diffuse fluxes from a subdominant source population emitting UHE protons.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Ehlert, Domenik;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Unger, Michael.
(2023)
Curious case of the maximum rigidity distribution of cosmic-ray accelerators.
Physical Review D
Academic article
-
Yoshida, Kenji;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Murase, Kohta;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2023)
Flare Duty Cycle of Gamma-Ray Blazars and Implications for High-energy Neutrino Emission.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
-
Padovani, P.;
Giommi, P.;
Falomo, R.;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Petropoulou, M.;
Glauch, T..
(2022)
The spectra of IceCube neutrino (SIN) candidate sources - II. Source characterization.
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Academic article
-
Wang, Ze-Rui;
Liu, Ruo-Yu;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Xue, Rui;
Wang, Xiang-Yu.
(2022)
Unified model for orphan and multiwavelength blazar flares.
Physical Review D
Academic article
-
Addazi, A.;
Alvarez-Muniz, J.;
Alves Batista, R.;
Amelino-Camelia, G.;
Antonelli, V.;
Arzano, M..
(2022)
Quantum gravity phenomenology at the dawn of the multi-messenger era—A review.
Progress in Particle and Nuclear Physics
Academic literature review
-
Eichmann, Björn;
Kachelriess, Michael;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2022)
Explaining the UHECR spectrum, composition and large-scale anisotropies with radio galaxies.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)
Academic article
-
Guépin, Claire;
Kotera, Kumiko;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2022)
High-energy neutrino transients and the future of multi-messenger astronomy.
Nature Reviews Physics
Academic literature review
-
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2022)
High-energy neutrino emission from blazars.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2022)
Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic Rays: The Intersection of the Cosmic and Energy Frontiers.
Astroparticle physics
Academic article
-
Eichmann, Björn;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Salvatore, Silvia;
Dettmar, Ralf-Jürgen;
Tjus, Julia Becker.
(2022)
Solving the Multimessenger Puzzle of the AGN-starburst Composite Galaxy NGC 1068.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
-
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Murase, Kohta;
Tohuvavohu, Aaron;
Vasilopoulos, Georgios;
Buson, Sara.
(2021)
Multi-messenger emission from the parsec-scale jet of the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1502+106 coincident with high-energy neutrino IceCube-190730A.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)
Academic literature review
-
Olinto, A.V.;
Krizmanic, J.;
Adams, J.H.;
Aloisio, R.;
Anchordoqui, L.A.;
Anzalone, A..
(2021)
The POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) observatory.
Journal of Cosmology and Astroparticle Physics (JCAP)
Academic literature review
-
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Yoshida, Kenji;
Murase, Kohta;
Petropoulou, Maria.
(2021)
The Neutrino Contribution of Gamma-Ray Flares from Fermi Bright Blazars.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Schumacher, Lisa;
Huber, Matthias;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Bustamante, Mauricio;
Resconi, Elisa;
agostini, matteo.
(2021)
PLEnuM: A global and distributed monitoring system of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Wang, Ze-Rui;
Liu, Ruo-Yu;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Xue, Rui;
Wang, Xiang-Yu.
(2021)
A unified model for orphan and multi-wavelength blazar flares.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2021)
The Blazar Hadronic Code Comparison Project.
Proceedings of Science (PoS)
Academic article
-
Giommi, P.;
Padovani, P.;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Glauch, T.;
Paiano, S.;
Resconi, E..
(2020)
3HSP J095507.9+355101: A flaring extreme blazar coincident in space and time with IceCube-200107A.
Astronomy and Astrophysics (A & A)
Academic article
-
Petropoulou, Maria;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Mastichiadis, Apostolos;
Murase, Kohta;
Padovani, Paolo;
Vasilopoulos, Georgios.
(2020)
Comprehensive Multimessenger Modeling of the Extreme Blazar 3HSP J095507.9+355101 and Predictions for IceCube.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
-
Murase, Kohta;
Kimura, Shigeo S.;
Zhang, B. Theodore;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Petropoulou, Maria.
(2020)
High-Energy Neutrino and Gamma-Ray Emission from Tidal Disruption Events.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
-
Zhang, Bing;
Petropoulou, Maria;
Murase, Kohta;
Oikonomou, Foteini.
(2020)
A Neutral Beam Model for High-Energy Neutrino Emission from the Blazar TXS 0506+056.
The Astrophysical Journal (ApJ)
Academic article
-
Toomey, Michael;
Oikonomou, Foteini;
Murase, Kohta.
(2020)
Gamma-ray counterparts of 2WHSP high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac objects as possible signatures of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray emission.
Monthly notices of the Royal Astronomical Society
Academic article
Teaching
Courses
Outreach
2019
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Academic lectureYoshida, Kenji; Petropoulou, Maria; Urry, Megan; Coppi, Paolo S.; Bailyn, Charles; Vasilopoulos, Georgios. (2019) Flaring Rate Distribution of Gamma-Ray Blazars and Implications for High-Energy Neutrino Emission . International Cosmic Ray Conference 2019-07-24 - 2019-08-01
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Academic lectureOikonomou, Foteini; Murase, Kohta; padovani, paolo; Resconi, Elisa; Meszaros, Peter. (2019) High-energy neutrinos from individual blazar flares. International Cosmic Ray Conference 2019-07-24 - 2019-08-01
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Academic lectureOlinto, Angela; POEMMA, Collaboration; Oikonomou, Foteini. (2019) The POEMMA (Probe of Extreme Multi-Messenger Astrophysics) mission. International Cosmic Ray Conference 2019-07-24 - 2019-08-01