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The H.E.S.S. experiment has reported the detection of very high energy (VHE: E>100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the well-known radio-galaxy Cen A. Following this discovery, we refine the previous multi-blob synchrotron self-Compton (SSC)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-15 J. -P. Lenain , M. C. Medina , C. Boisson , G. E. Romero , H. Sol , A. Zech

The association of at least a dozen ultrahigh-energy cosmic-ray (UHECR) events with energy $\gtrsim 55$ EeV detected by the Pierre Auger Observatory (PAO) from the direction of Centaurus-A, the nearest radio galaxy, supports the scenario of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Jagdish C. Joshi , Luis Salvador Miranda , Soebur Razzaque , Lili Yang

The current detectors of gamma-ray emission specially at TeV energies have too poor resolution to determine whether this emission is produced in the jet or in the core, particularly of low luminous, non-blazar AGNs (like radio galaxies). In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-28 Behrouz Khiali , Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , Hélène Sol

M 87 is the first extragalactic source detected in the Very High Energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray domain that is not a blazar, its large scale jet not being aligned to the line of sight. Slight modification of standard emission models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-18 Jean-Philippe Lenain , Catherine Boisson , Hélène Sol

Radio galaxies have emerged as a new gamma-ray emitting source class on the extragalactic sky. With their jets misaligned, i.e. not directly pointing towards us, they offer a unique tool to probe some of the fundamental (and otherwise…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Frank M. Rieger

We describe new implementations of leptonic and hadronic models for the broadband emission from relativistic jets in AGN in a temporary steady state. For the leptonic model, a temporary equilibrium between particle injection/acceleration,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Boettcher , A. Reimer , K. Sweeney , A. Prakash

The detection of very-high-energy (VHE; $>$100 GeV) $\gamma$-ray radiation from misaligned jetted Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) challenges the emission models that primarily explain VHE emissions from beamed AGN, i.e., blazars. Using over 16…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-25 Gunjan Tomar , Vaidehi S. Paliya , D. J. Saikia , C. S. Stalin

Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-rays in pulsars, and their surrounding halos, are interpreted to originate from the leptonic channel, electromagnetic interactions through electron inverse Compton (IC) scattering. In the hadronic scenario,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Sonali Sahoo , Ankan Roy , Kritika Yadav , Reetanjali Moharana

Relativistic jets from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are highly energetic and emit radiation across a wide range of frequencies. Despite several observational studies, their particle composition still remains a key open question. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-02 Harshita Bhuyan , Bhargav Vaidya , Christian Fendt , Aditya Sharma

We investigate hadronic and leptonic scenarios for the GeV--TeV gamma-ray emission from jets of the microquasar SS 433. The emission region of the TeV photons coincides with the X-ray knots, where electrons are efficiently accelerated. On…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-04 Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros

Centaurus A, the closest active galaxy, has been detected from radio to high-energy gamma-rays. The synchrotron radiation by extremely high energy protons may be a suitable mechanism to explain the MeV to GeV emission detected by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Orellana , G. E. Romero

Very high energy gamma-ray emission of Fanaroff-Riley I objects is not univocally explained by a single emission model. Leptonic models with one and multi-zone emission regions, occurring in the jet of these objects, are usually used to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-03 A. Marinelli , N. Fraija , B. Patricelli

The nearest active radio galaxy Centaurus (Cen) A is a gamma-ray emitter in GeV to TeV energy scale. The High Energy Stereoscopic System (H.E.S.S.) and non-simultaneous Fermi-LAT observation indicate an unusual spectral hardening above few…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-02 Prabir Banik , Arunava Bhadra , Abhijit Bhattacharyya

Cen A has been recently detected in the high-energy (HE) and very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray domain by Fermi-LAT and H.E.S.S. We review the observed characteristics and suggest a scenario where the VHE emission originates from the vicinity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-08-24 F. M. Rieger

We study the contribution of thermal and non-thermal processes to the inverse Compton emission of the radio galaxy M 87 by modelling its broad-band emission. Through this we aim to derive insight into where within the AGN the X-ray,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-27 S. de Jong , V. Beckmann , S. Soldi , A. Tramacere , A. Gros

We report the discovery of faint very high energy (VHE, E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from the radio galaxy Centaurus A in deep observations performed with the H.E.S.S. experiment. A signal with a statistical significance of 5.0 sigma is…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Raue , J. -P. Lenain , F. A. Aharonian , Y. Becherini , C. Boisson , A. -C. Clapson , L. Costamante , L. Gerard , C. Medina , M. de Naurois , M. Punch , F. Rieger , H. Sol , L. Stawarz , A. Zech

Astrophysical models for the high-energy emission of blazars are reviewed. Blazars ejecting relativistic radio jets at small angles to the line-of-sight are the only type of active galactic nuclei (AGN) discovered above 100 MeV. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karl Mannheim

In the recent years, the new generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes successfully detected very high energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from a growing number of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), mainly belonging to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-13 J. -P. Lenain

Context.In recent years, non-blazar Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) such as Radio Galaxies have emerged as a highly instructive source class providing unique insights into high energy acceleration and radiation mechanisms. Aims.Here we aim at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Faiçal Ait Benkhali , Nachiketa Chakraborty , Frank M. Rieger
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