  We revisit the flavor composition of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos
observed at neutrino telescopes. Assuming unitary time evolution of the
neutrino flavor states, the flavor composition observable at Earth is related
to the initial composition at their sources via oscillation-averaged flavor
transitions. In a previous study we derived general bounds on the flavor
composition of TeV-PeV astrophysical neutrinos assuming three-flavor unitary
mixing. We extend these bounds to the case of active-sterile neutrino mixing.
Our bounds are analytical, derived based only on the unitarity of the mixing,
and do not require sampling over the values of the unknown active-sterile
mixing parameters. These bounds apply to any extended active-sterile neutrino
mixing scenario where energy-dependent nonstandard flavor mixing dominates over
the standard mixing observed in accelerator, reactor, and atmospheric neutrino
oscillations.

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology;High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena