Recent neutrino observations from the IceCube Collaboration suggest that Seyfert galaxies are promising candidate sources of neutrinos. Within the standard disk-corona model, we assume that protons are accelerated by a nonresonant acceleration mechanism driven by magnetized turbulence in the corona. These accelerated protons interact with ambient radiation or matter, producing high-energy neutrinos and gamma rays. In this scenario, gamma rays are largely absorbed within the corona. The neutrino luminosity depends primarily on the properties of the corona (such as the x-ray luminosity and radius) and the spectral energy distribution of the target photons. This study demonstrates the relation between the neutrino luminosity and the x-ray luminosity, and further discusses the contribution of cascade gamma rays to coronal radiation. Notably, MeV gamma rays can effectively escape the source, together with neutrinos, and serve as key observational probes for testing this model. Future MeV gamma-ray telescopes, such as AMEGO-X and e-ASTROGAM, are expected to detect such gamma-ray signatures, providing a critical multimessenger test of the hadronic corona model.

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• Extrasolar neutrino astronomy
• Active & peculiar galaxies
• Neutrinos