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Compton-induced $\gamma$-ray Cascade Emissions in Radio Galaxy NGC 1275

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena 2025-12-01 v2

Abstract

Among active galactic nuclei (AGNi), blazars are the brightest emitters of high-energy (HE, E100E \geq 100 MeV) to very-high-energy (VHE, E100E \geq 100 GeV) γ\gamma-rays from their jets. Radio galaxies, being the misaligned parent population of the blazar class, were historically not detected at these frequencies. However, advances in experiments and observatories have led to their detection in the HE--VHE γ\gamma-ray band. In this work, we leverage and refine a Monte-Carlo photon and electron-positron (e±^\pm) pair tracking code in the AGN environment of the radio galaxy NGC 1275. In the code, we consider the isotropic broad-line region (BLR) and anisotropic Shakura-Sunyaev (SS) accretion disk radiation fields, with mild magnetic fields in the AGN environment. We find that cascade γ\gamma-rays from inverse-Compton scattering by relativistic e±^\pm pairs of these external radiation fields can explain the Fermi Large Area Telescope's (LAT) and Major Atmospheric Cherenkov Experiment's observations from the radio galaxy NGC 1275. We present a set of plausible parameters obtained from the code by fitting the source's spectral energy distribution (SED) during flaring events reported during the period December 2022 to January 2023.

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@article{arxiv.2511.21463,
  title  = {Compton-induced $\gamma$-ray Cascade Emissions in Radio Galaxy NGC 1275},
  author = {Mfuphi Ntshatsha and Markus Böttcher and Soebur Razzaque},
  journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:2511.21463},
  year   = {2025}
}

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7 pages, 5 figures, 1 table, contribution to the proceedings of HEASA 2025 annual conference