Xavier Rodrigues – Astrophysicist

Understanding black holes with neutrinos and numerical modeling

NUBLACK

A new project to discover signatures of cosmic-ray interactions, funded by France 2030 (€152,000).

AM³ — an open-source astroparticle framework

A world-leading astroparticle simulation code, now available as open-source Python software.

Cartoon of a jet launched by a black hole, where particles accelerated to high energies emit complex radiative signatures

Hillas meets Eddington: the case for blazars as ultra-high-energy neutrino sources

Manuscript accepted in Astron. & Astrophysics presents a new model of black hole jets. The AM3-based model is available in full on my GitHub.

Sky map showing the location of 324 blazars recently modeled by Rodrigues et al.

Modeling hundreds of black hole jets predicts neutrino emission

In a study published in Astron. Astrophys. (2024), I modeled 324 blazars detected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope and showed that for one-third of the sample, proton interactions can help describe observations. All results and the full simulation flow with AM3 are available on GitHub.