Publications

You can find all my articles on my Scholar profile and my iNSPIRE page

Selected publications

• Hillas meets Eddington: the case for blazars as ultra-high-energy neutrino sources X. Rodrigues, F. M. Rieger, A. Bohdan, P. Padovani (2025) submitted to Astron. Astrophys. (arXiv:2508.18345)

• A Comprehensive Hadronic Code Comparison for Active Galactic Nuclei Cerruti et al., accepted in Astrophys. J. Suppl.

• Time-dependent modelling of short-term variability in the TeV-blazar VER J0521+211 during the major flare in 2020 with the MAGIC Collaboration (Abe et al., 2025) Astron. Astrophys. 694, A308

• The Spectra of IceCube Neutrino Candidate Sources V: Modeling and interpretation of multiwavelength and neutrino data
  X. Rodrigues, M. Karl, P. Padovani, P. Giommi, S. Paiano, R. Falomo, M. Petropoulou, F. Oikonomou (2024) Astron. Astrophys. 689, A147

• AM3: An Open-Source Tool for Time-Dependent Lepto-Hadronic Modeling of Astrophysical Sources M. Klinger, A. Rudolph, X. Rodrigues, C. Yuan, G. Clairfontaine, A. Fedynitch, W. Winter, M. Pohl, S. Gao (2024) Astrophys. J. Suppl. 275, 1

• Leptohadronic Multi-Messenger Modeling of 324 Gamma-Ray Blazars X. Rodrigues, V. S. Paliya, S. Garrappa, A. Omeliukh, A. Franckowiak, W. Winter (2024) Astron. Astrophys. 681, A119

• Possible jet contribution to the γ-ray luminosity in NGC 1068 S. Salvatore, B. Eichmann, X. Rodrigues, R.-J. Dettmar, J. Becker Tjus (2024) Astron. Astrophys. 687, A139

• Differences between PAO and TA spectra: Systematics or indication of a local astrophysical source? P. Plotko, A. van Vliet, X. Rodrigues, W. Winter (2023) Astrophys. J. 953 2, 129

• Multiwavelength and Neutrino Emission from Blazar PKS 1502+106 X. Rodrigues, S. Garrappa, S. Gao, V. Paliya, A. Franckowiak, W. Winter (2021) Astrophys. J. 912, 54

• Active Galactic Nuclei as the Origin of Ultrahigh-Energy Cosmic Rays
  X. Rodrigues, J. Heinze, A. Palladino, A. van Vliet, W. Winter (2021) Phys. Rev. Lett. 126, 191101

• Leptohadronic Blazar Models Applied to the 2014–15 Flare of TXS 0506+056 X. Rodrigues, S. Gao, A. Fedynitch, A. Palladino, W. Winter (2019) Astrophys. J. Lett. 874, L29

• Binary neutron star merger remnants as sources of cosmic rays below the “Ankle” X. Rodrigues, D. Biehl, D. Boncioli, A. M. Taylor (2019) Astropart. Phys. 106

• Interpretation of the Diffuse Astrophysical Neutrino Flux in Terms of the Blazar Sequence A. Palladino, X. Rodrigues, S. Gao, W. Winter (2019) Astrophys. J. 871, 41

• Probing the Magnetic Field in the GW170817 Outflow Using H.E.S.S. Observations
  H.E.S.S. Collaboration & X. Rodrigues (2020) Astrophys. J. Lett. 894, L16

• Neutrinos and Ultra-High-Energy Cosmic-Ray Nuclei from Blazars X. Rodrigues, A. Fedynitch, S. Gao, D. Boncioli, W. Winter (2018) Astrophys. J. 854, 54

Publications in conference proceedings

• Modeling a large AGN sample to unveil the signatures of neutrino emission X. Rodrigues (2023) Published in: PoS ICRC2023 1544 • Contribution to ICRC 2023 (Nagoya, Japan)

• Differences between PAO and TA spectra: Systematics or indication of a local astrophysical source? P. Plotko, A. van Vliet, X. Rodrigues, W. Winter (2023) Published in: PoS ICRC2023 229 • Contribution to ICRC 2023 (Nagoya, Japan)

• Interpreting the activity of blazar PKS 0735+178 with particle interactions in the jet A. Omeliukh, X. Rodrigues, S. Garrappa, V. Fallah Ramazani, A. Franckowiak Published in: PoS ICRC2023 1528 • Contribution to ICRC 2023 (Nagoya, Japan)

• Modeling a large AGN sample to unveil the signatures of neutrino emission X. Rodrigues (2023) Published in: PoS ICRC2023 1544 •Contribution to ICRC 2023 (Nagoya, Japan)

• Leptonic and lepto-hadronic time-dependent spectral modeling of VER J0521+211 during the large outburst of February-March 2020 MAGIC Collaboration (Hyuga Abe et al., 2023) Published in: PoS ICRC2023 1492 • Contribution to ICRC 2023 (Nagoya, Japan)

• The Blazar Hadronic Code Comparison Project M. Cerruti et al. (2021) Published in: PoS ICRC2021 979 • Contribution to: ICRC 2021 (Online)

• Neutrinos and UHECR nuclei from blazars: from a single-source model to a population study X. Rodrigues, A. Fedynitch, S. Gao, A. Palladino, D. Boncioli Published in: PoS ICRC2019 991 • Contribution to ICRC 2019 (Madison WI, USA)

• Multi-messenger interpretation of the neutrinos from TXS 0506+056 W. Winter, S. Gao, X. Rodrigues, A. Fedynitch, A. Palladino et al. (2019) Published in: PoS ICRC2019 1032 • Contribution to: ICRC 2019 (Madison WI, USA)