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The recent discovery of the gamma-ray emission from the lobes of the closest radio galaxy Centaurus A by Fermi implies the presence of high-energy electrons at least up to gamma ~ 10^5 - 10^6. These high-energy electrons are required to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 F. Massaro , M. Ajello

We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope detection of extended gamma-ray emission from the lobes of the radio galaxy Fornax A using 6.1 years of Pass 8 data. After Centaurus A, this is now the second example of an extended gamma-ray source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration

The detection of high energy (HE) {\gamma}-ray emission up to about 3 GeV from the giant lobes of the radio galaxy Centaurus A has been recently reported by the Fermi-LAT Collaboration based on ten months of all-sky survey observations. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-19 Rui-zhi Yang , Narek Sahakyan , Emma de Ona Wilhelmi , Felix Aharonian , Frank Rieger

We report on the detection of extended $\gamma$-ray emission from lobes in the radio galaxy NGC 6251 using observation data of Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT). The maximum likelihood analysis results show that a radio morphology…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-26 Yu-Wei Yu , Hai-Ming Zhang , Ying-Ying Gan , Xin-Ke Hu , Tan-Zheng Wu , Jin Zhang

The {\gamma}-ray data of Fermi-LAT on the giant lobes of Centaurus A are analysed together with the high frequency radio data obtained with the Planck satellite. The large {\gamma}-ray photon statistics, accumulated during seven years of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Xiao-na Sun , Rui-zhi Yang , Benjamin Mckinley , Felix Aharonian

Radio and $\gamma$-ray measurements of large lobes of several radio galaxies provide adequate basis for determining whether emission in these widely separated spectral regions is largely by energetic electrons. This is very much of interest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Massimo Persic , Yoel Rephaeli

The extended lobes of radio galaxies are examined as sources of X-ray and gamma-ray emission via inverse Compton scattering of 3K background photons. The Compton spectra of two exemplary examples, Fornax A and Centaurus A, are estimated…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 C. C. Cheung

We present gamma-ray observations with the LAT on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Telescope of the nearby radio galaxy Centaurus~A. The previous EGRET detection is confirmed, and the localization is improved using data from the first 10 months of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Fermi Collaboration , A. Falcone , H. Hase , C. Pagoni , C. Ploetz

The nearby radio galaxy Centaurus A is poorly studied at high frequencies with conventional radio telescopes because of its very large angular size, but is one of a very few extragalactic objects to be detected and resolved by the Wilkinson…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 M. J. Hardcastle , C. C. Cheung , I. J. Feain , L. Stawarz

Centaurus B is a nearby radio galaxy positioned in the Southern hemisphere close to the Galactic plane. Here we present a detailed analysis of about 43 months of accumulated Fermi-LAT data of the gamma-ray counterpart of the source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 J. Katsuta , Y. T. Tanaka , L. Stawarz , S. P. O'Sullivan , C. C. Cheung , J. Kataoka , S. Funk , T. Yuasa , H. Odaka , T. Takahashi , J. Svoboda

We report the discovery of high-energy \gamma-ray emission from the Broad Line Radio Galaxy (BLRG) Pictor A with a significance of ~5.8\sigma (TS=33.4), based on three years of observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 Anthony M. Brown , Jenni Adams

It has been suggested that unresolved radio galaxies and radio quasars (sometimes referred to as misaligned active galactic nuclei) could be responsible for a significant fraction of the observed diffuse gamma-ray background. In this study,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Dan Hooper , Tim Linden , Alejandro Lopez

We report the results of a Suzaku X-ray imaging study of NGC6251, a nearby giant radio galaxy with intermediate FR I/II radio properties. Our pointing direction was centered on the gamma -ray emission peak recently discovered with Fermi-LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Y. Takeuchi , J. Kataoka , L. Stawarz , Y. Takahashi , K. Maeda , T. Nakamori , C. C. Cheung , A. Celotti , Y. Tanaka , T. Takahashi

Current measurements of the spectral energy distribution in radio, X-and-gamma-ray provide a sufficiently wide basis for determining basic properties of energetic electrons and protons in the extended lobes of the radio galaxy Fornax A. Of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-22 Massimo Persic , Yoel Rephaeli

The Fermi gamma-ray satellite has recently detected gamma-ray emissions from radio galaxy cores. From these samples, we first examine the correlation between the luminosities at 5 GHz, L_{5GHz}, and at 0.1-10 GeV, L_{gamma}, of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Yoshiyuki Inoue

The nucleus of the Milky Way is known to harbour regions of intense star formation activity as well as a super-massive black hole. Recent Fermi space telescope observations have revealed regions of \gamma-ray emission reaching far above and…

Radio and gamma-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are thought to share a common origin, related to the ejection phenomena in the vicinity of supermassive black holes. Thanks to its sensitivity, surveying capability, and broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 M. Giroletti , A. Reimer , L. Fuhrmann , V. Pavlidou , J. L. Richards

With its excellent sensitivity, large field of view, broad energy coverage, and good per-photon angular resolution, the Large Area Telescope aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite provides us with an unprecedented view of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-02 Jürgen Knödlseder

The origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background is a pressing cosmological mystery. The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope has recently measured the intensity and spectrum of this background; both are substantially different from previous…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-16 Brian D. Fields , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Tijana Prodanovic

We present six-year multi-wavelength monitoring result for broad-line radio galaxy 3C 120. The source was sporadically detected by Fermi-LAT and after the MeV/GeV gamma-ray detection the 43 GHz radio core brightened and a knot ejected from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Y. T. Tanaka , A. Doi , Y. Inoue , C. C. Cheung , L. Stawarz , Y. Fukazawa , M. A. Gurwell , M. Tahara , J. Kataoka , R. Itoh
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