TANAMI II. Additional sources

We test the positional agreement of high-energy neutrino events with various AGN samples. TANAMI VLBI observations at 8.4GHz are made with Southern-Hemisphere radio telescopes located in Australia, Antarctica, Chile, New Zealand, and South Africa. Our observations yield the first images of many jets below -30{deg} declination at milliarcsecond resolution.

We find that {gamma}-ray loud TANAMI sources tend to be more compact on parsec-scales and have higher core brightness temperatures than {gamma}-ray faint jets, indicating higher Doppler factors. No significant structural difference is found between sources in positional coincidence with high-energy neutrino events and other TANAMI jets. The 22 {gamma}-ray brightest AGN in the TANAMI sky show only a weak positional agreement with high-energy neutrinos demonstrating that the >100TeV IceCube signal is not simply dominated by a small number of the {gamma}-ray brightest blazars.

Instead, a larger number of sources have to contribute to the signal with each individual source having only a small Poisson probability for producing an event in multi-year integrations of current neutrino detectors.