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We report the first observation of a transient relativistic jet from the canonical black hole candidate, Cygnus X-1, obtained with the Multi-Element Radio-Linked Interferometer Network (MERLIN). The jet was observed in only one of six…

We propose a model to explain the ultra-bright GeV gamma-ray flares observed from the blazar \c454. The model is based on the concept of a relativistic jet interacting with compact gas condensations produced when a star (red giant) crosses…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-10 M. V. Barkov , D. V. Khangulyan , V. Bosch-Ramon , F. A. Aharonian , A. V. Dorodnitsyn

We have recently argued that the high-mass X-ray binary Cygnus~X-3 can accelerate cosmic rays (CR) beyond PeV energies. Meanwhile, the LHAASO collaboration published the measurement of an orbitally modulated photon flux from Cygnus~X-3…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 M. Kachelriess , E. Lammert

The study of the early high-energy emission from both long and short Gamma-ray bursts has been revolutionized by the Swift mission. The rapid response of Swift shows that the non-thermal X-ray emission transitions smoothly from the prompt…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 P. T. O'Brien , R. Willingale , J. P. Osborne , M. R. Goad

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

We present UKIRT infrared images of the X-ray binary Cygnus X-3. We address the possibility of extended infrared emission and show that it could be either warm circumstellar material or a star near the binary's line of sight.

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 R. N. Ogley , S. J. Bell Burnell , R. P. Fender

We present a multiwavelength study of the nucleus, environment, jets, and hotspots of the nearby FRII radio galaxy 3C 321, using new and archival data from MERLIN, the VLA, Spitzer, HST, and Chandra. An initially collimated radio jet…

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are one of the most extreme transients in the universe, but their explosion and emission mechanism remains unclear. To investigate the nature of GRB jets, here we focus on X-ray flares (XFs) and extended emissions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-02 Riki Matsui , Shigeo S. Kimura , Kohta Murase , Bing Theodore Zhang

We present mid-infrared spectrophotometric results obtained with the ISO on the peculiar X-ray binary Cygnus X-3 in quiescence, at orbital phases 0.83 to 1.04. The 2.4-12 microns continuum radiation observed with ISOPHOT-S can be explained…

We study the particle energy distribution in the cocoon surrounding Cygnus A, using radio images between 151 MHz and 15 GHz and a 200 ks Chandra ACIS-I image. We show that the excess low frequency emission in the the lobe further from Earth…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 K. C. Steenbrugge , I. Heywood , K. M. Blundell

Cygnus X-3 has recently been established as a variable ultra-high-energy(UHE) gamma-ray source with photons detected up to 3.7~PeV. The temporal correlation between its PeV activity and GeV flares, together with the possible orbital…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-07 Xing-Fu Zhang , Ruo-Yu Liu , Dmitriy Khangulyan , Cui-Yuan Dai , Xiang-Yu Wang

We investigate the production of gamma-rays in the inner regions of SS 433 and in its interaction between its jets and the W50 nebula. We estimate the VHE emission that can be generated within the jets at distances above 1e+13 cm from the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Pol Bordas , Valentí Bosch-Ramon , Josep Maria Paredes

We discuss the results of the radio studies of the X-ray binaries with relativistic jets. We carried out a multi-frequency (1-30 GHz) daily monitoring of the radio flux variability of the microquasars SS433, GRS1915+105, and Cyg X-3 with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Sergei A. Trushkin , Nikolaj A. Nizhelskij , Nikolaj N. Bursov

We present an analysis of the first observation of the iconic High Mass X-ray Binary \so with the \chandra High Energy Transmission Gratings during an X-ray eclipse. The goal of the observation was to study the structure/physical conditions…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 M. Martínez-Chicharro , V. Grinberg , J. M. Torrejón , N. Schulz , L. Oskinova , M. Nowak , F. Fürst , N. Hell , R. Hainich

High-mass binaries hosting young pulsars can be powerful gamma-ray emitters. The stellar wind of the massive star in the system is expected to be clumpy. Since the high-energy emission comes from the pulsar-star wind interaction, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 V. Bosch-Ramon

We present simultaneous multi-band radio and X-ray observations of the black hole X-ray binary Cygnus X-1, taken with the Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array and the Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array. With these data, we detect clear flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 A. J. Tetarenko , P. Casella , J. C. A. Miller-Jones , G. R. Sivakoff , B. E. Tetarenko , T. J. Maccarone , P. Gandhi , S. Eikenberry

We study three extraordinarily bright X-ray flares originating from Cyg X-1 seen on 2023 July 10 detected with INTEGRAL. The flares had a duration on the order of only ten minutes each, and within seconds reached a 1-100 keV peak luminosity…

Jet physics is again flourishing as a result of Chandra's ability to resolve high-energy emission from the radio-emitting structures of active galaxies and separate it from the X-ray-emitting thermal environments of the jets. These enhanced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2018-06-11 D. M. Worrall

INTEGRAL tripled the number of super-giant high-mass X-ray binaries (sgHMXB) known in the Galaxy by revealing absorbed and fast transient (SFXT) systems. Quantitative constraints on the wind clumping of massive stars can be obtained from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-12-13 R. Walter , J. Zurita-Heras , J. -C. Leyder

Non-blazar AGN have been recently established as a class of gamma-ray sources. M87, a nearby representative of this class, show fast TeV variability on timescales of a few days. We suggest a scenario of flare gamma-ray emission in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-12-01 Maxim V. Barkov , Felix A. Aharonian , Valenti Bosch-Ramon