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Active galactic nuclei with misaligned jets have been recently established as a class of high-energy gamma-ray sources. M87, a nearby representative of this class, shows fast TeV variability on timescales less than one day. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Maxim V. Barkov , Valenti Bosch-Ramon , Felix A. Aharonian

Very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission from a distant source (z >~0.2) can be efficiently absorbed my means of the electron-positron pair creation process. Analyses of the unabsorbed spectra imply that the intrinsic TeV emission of some…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Krzysztof Katarzynski

We model the simultaneous observations of the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 at radio, optical, X-ray and very high energy (VHE) gamma ray energies during 2006 flare using a simple one zone leptonic model. We consider synchrotron…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 S. Sahayanathan , S. Godambe

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) are among the most luminous transients in the Universe and constitute prime targets for multimessenger studies, particularly in connection with gravitational-wave events. The detection of very-high-energy (TeV)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Nissim Fraija , Jorge Alexis Montes , Sara Fraija-Castellanos , María Magdalena González

The emission mechanisms of the blazar 3C 279 are studied by solving the kinetic equations of electrons and photons in a relativistically moving blob. The gamma-ray spectral energy distribution (SED) is fitted by inverse Compton scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Masaaki Kusunose , Fumio Takahara , Tomohiro Kato

We introduce a methodology for analysis of multiwavelength data from X-ray selected BL Lac (XBL) objects detected in the TeV regime. By assuming that the radio--through--X-ray flux from XBLs is nonthermal synchrotron radiation emitted by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Justin Finke , Charles Dermer , Markus Boettcher

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

We have studied the rapid X-ray variability of three extragalactic TeV gamma-ray sources; Mrk 421, Mrk 501 and PKS 2155-304. Analyzing the X-ray light curves obtained from ASCA and/or RXTE observations between 1993 and 1998, we have…

The detection of very high-energy gamma-rays from M87 can provide crucial insights into particle acceleration and radiation mechanisms in jets. The recent observations by the Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory (LHAASO) detector…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-22 Nibedita Mondal , Sandeep Kumar Mondal , Nayantara Gupta

This work is a summary of the X-ray spectral studies of 29 TeV $\gamma$-ray emitting blazars observed with Swift/XRT, especially focusing on sources for which X-ray regime allows to study the low and the high energy ends of the particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-28 Alicja Wierzcholska , Stefan Wagner

The all-sky surveys in gamma-rays by the imaging Compton telescope (COMPTEL) and the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on board the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory for the first time allows detailed studies of the extragalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Sreekumar , F. W. Stecker , S. C. Kappadath

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

The inverse Compton scattering of ultrarelativistic electrons accelerated at the pulsar wind termination shock is believed to be responsible for TeV gamma-ray signal recently reported from the binary system PSR B1259-63/SS2883. While this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Dmitry Khangulyan , Slavomir Hnatic , Felix Aharonian , Sergey Bogovalov

The recent detection of TeV photons from two gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), GRB 190114C and GRB 180720B, has opened a new window for multi-messenger and multi-wavelength astrophysics of high-energy transients. We study the origin of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-26 B. Theodore Zhang , Kohta Murase , Chengchao Yuan , Shigeo S. Kimura , Peter Mészáros

(Abridged) Very high-energy (VHE, $E>100$ GeV) observations of the blazar Mrk 501 with MAGIC in 2014 provided evidence for an unusual narrow spectral feature at about 3 TeV during an extreme X-ray flaring activity. The one-zone…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-06 M. Petropoulou , A. Mastichiadis , G. Vasilopoulos , D. Paneque , J. Becerra González , F. Zanias

The jet of the radio galaxy M87 is misaligned, resulting in a Doppler factor delta~1 for emission of plasma moving parallel to the jet. This makes the observed fast TeV flares on timescales of t_v~5R_g/c harder to understand as emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-13 Dimitrios Giannios , Dmitri A. Uzdensky , Mitchell C. Begelman

BL Lac objects are the best candidates to study the jet properties since their spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are less contaminated by the emission from the accretion disk and external Compton processes. We compile the broadband SEDs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Jin Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , Jin-Ming Bai

In this paper we extend our approach to modeling multifrequency emission variability from blazars to include external-radiation Compton (ERC) emission and electron energy losses from inverse Compton scattering of seed photons originating…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Andrei Sokolov , Alan P. Marscher

The non-thermal spectra of blazars, observed from radio to GeV/TeV gamma-rays, reveal two pronounced components, both produced by radiation by energetic particles. One peaks in the IR - to soft X-ray band, radiating via the synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Tadayuki Takahashi , Greg Madejski , Hidetoshi Kubo

We propose a modified version of the X-ray spectral index and an intrinsic cutoff frequency of inverse Compton radiation from the brightest knot of the M87 jet, in conjunction with an application of the new conceptions of injection and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Mitsuru Honda , Yasuko S. Honda