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Most extragalactic jets in radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei are bright and variable gamma-ray sources, which are continuously monitored with Fermi/LAT. We present the gamma-ray properties of the MOJAVE and TANAMI AGN samples of radio-loud…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-15 M. Boeck , M. Kadler , G. Tosti , T. H. Burnett , C. Mueller , R. Ojha , J. Wilms

Knots (emission features in jets of active galactic nuclei) often show non-ballistic dynamics and variable emission/polarization properties. We model these features as emission pattern propagating in a jet that carries helical magnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-31 Maxim Lyutikov , Evgeniya Kravchenko

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) host some of the most energetic phenomena in the Universe. AGN are thought to be powered by accretion of matter onto a rotating disk that surrounds a supermassive black hole. Jet streams can be boosted in energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-13 Ivan Marti-Vidal , Sebastien Muller , Wouter Vlemmings , Cathy Horellou , Susanne Aalto

The discovery of high-energy (E>100 MeV) gamma rays from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies (gamma-NLS1s) has confirmed the presence of powerful relativistic jets in this class of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Although the jet emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-23 Luigi Foschini

Jets are a ubiquitous part of the accretion process, seen in a wide variety of objects ranging from active galaxies (AGN) to X-ray binary stars and even newly formed stars. AGN jets are accelerated by the supermassive black hole of their…

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and their relativistic jets belong to the most promising class of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) accelerators. This compact review summarises basic experimental findings by recent instruments, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 Frank M. Rieger

The hot, puffed up, post-shock region of an advective disc is the source of high energy photons and also the jets and outflows. We study the relativistic equations of motion of jets as these high energy photons interact with them. We show…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Indranil Chattopadhyay , Sandip K. Chakrabarti

Radio-Loud (RL) Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are among the brightest astrophysical sources at all wavelengths. Their relativistic jets can affect both their Supermassive Black Holes (SMBHs) growth and the surrounding intergalactic medium.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-10-03 Luca Ighina

Powerful radio sources and quasars emit relativistic jets of plasma and magnetic fields that travel hundreds of kilo-parsecs, ultimately depositing energy into the intra- or inter-cluster medium. In the rest frame of the jet, the energy…

Recently, microquasar jets have aroused the interest of many researchers focusing on the astrophysical plasma outflows and various jet ejections. In this work, we concentrate on the investigation of electromagnetic radiation and particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-02 Th. V. Papavasileiou , O. T. Kosmas , J. Sinatkas

Plasmas of geometrically thick, black hole (BH) accretion flows in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are generally collisionless for protons, and involve magnetic field turbulence. Under such conditions a fraction of protons can be accelerated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Kenji Toma , Fumio Takahara

Powerful relativistic jets are among the most ubiquitous and energetic observational consequences of accretion around supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei and neutron stars and stellar-mass black holes in x-ray binary (XRB)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Simone Migliari , Rob Fender , Mariano Mendez

Galactic black-hole X-ray binaries emit a compact, optically thick, mildy relativistic radio jet when they are in the hard and hard-intermediate states. In a series of papers, we have developed a jet model and have shown, through Monte…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-25 P. Reig , N. Kylafis

Parsec scale jet properties are shortly presented and discussed. Observational data are used to derive constraints on the jet velocity and orientation, the presence of velocity structures, and the connection between the pc and kpc scale.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriele Giovannini

We present a theoretical model for driving jets by accretion onto Kerr black holes and try to give an answer to the following question: How much energy could be extracted from a rotating black hole and its accretion disk in order to power…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Ioana Dutan , Peter L. Biermann

We discuss differences and similarities between jets powered by super-massive black holes in quasars and by stellar-mass black holes in microquasars. The comparison is based on multi-wavelength radio-to-infrared observations of the two…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-10-29 M. Turler , E. J. Lindfors

Radio activity in AGN (Active Galactic Nuclei) produce feedback on the host galaxy via the impact of the relativistic jets on the circumnuclear gas. Although radio jets can reach up to several times the optical radius of the host galaxy, in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-03-22 Guilherme S. Couto , Thaisa Storchi-Bergmann

Over the past few decades, our knowledge of jets produced by active galactic nuclei (AGN) has greatly progressed thanks to the development of very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI). Nevertheless, the crucial mechanisms involved in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-22 B. Boccardi , T. P. Krichbaum , E. Ros , J. A. Zensus

Approximately 10% of active galactic nuclei exhibit relativistic jets, which are powered by accretion of matter onto super massive black holes. While the measured width profiles of such jets on large scales agree with theories of magnetic…