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The enormous sizes and variability of emission of radio-loud AGNs arise from the relativistic flows of plasma along two oppositely directed jets. We use the Athena hydrodynamics code to simulate an extensive suite of 54 propagating…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-12-19 Yutong Li , Paul J. Wiita , Terance Schuh , Geena Elghossain , Shaoming Hu

Radio relics are arc-like synchrotron sources at the periphery of galaxy clusters, produced by cosmic-ray electrons in a $\mu$G magnetic field which are believed to have been (re-)accelerated by merger shock fronts. However, not all relics…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-01 John ZuHone , Kristian Ehlert , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer

Cosmic-ray (CR) sources temporarily enhance the relativistic particle density in their vicinity over the background distribution accumulated from the Galaxy-wide past injection activity and propagation. If individual sources are close…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 Guðlaugur Jóhannesson , Troy A. Porter

Observational and theoretical studies of extragalactic radio sources have suggested that an inhomogeneous environment may be responsible for observed arm length asymmetries of jets and the properties of extended emission line regions in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-11-04 Volker Gaibler , Sadegh Khochfar , Martin Krause

Before the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite only two classes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) were known to generate relativistic jets and thus to emit up to the $\gamma$-ray energy range: blazars and radio galaxies,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-12 Filippo D'Ammando

We conduct two-dimensional axisymmetric (referred to as 2.5D) hydrodynamical numerical simulations of bubble evolution in clusters of galaxies. We inflate bubbles using slow, massive jets with a wide opening angle, and follow their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Assaf Sternberg , Noam Soker

We have carried out a Chandra X-ray and multi-frequency radio VLBA study of the AGN TXS 0128+554, which is associated with the Fermi gamma-ray source 4FGL J0131.2+5547. The AGN is unresolved in a target 19.3 ks Chandra image, and its…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-08-27 M. L. Lister , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , S. Mandal , A. B. Pushkarev , A. Siemiginowska

As recently shown, Fermi-LAT measurements of the diffuse gamma-ray emission from the Galaxy favor the presence of a smooth softening in the primary cosmic-ray spectrum with increasing Galactocentric distance. This result can be interpreted…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 Daniele Gaggero , Dario Grasso , Antonio Marinelli , Alfredo Urbano , Mauro Valli

Highly collimated supersonic jets and less collimated outflows are observed to emerge from a wide variety of astrophysical objects. They are seen in young stellar objects (YSOs), proto-planetary nebulae, compact objects (like galactic black…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Elisabete M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Relativistic jets launched from stellar-mass compact objects embedded in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) can produce nonthermal emission upon successfully breaking out of the disk. In this paper, we present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Ken Chen , Zi-Gao Dai

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) powered jets can accelerate cosmic ray electrons, leading to the observed radio synchrotron emission. To simulate this emission, jet dynamics in galaxy clusters must be coupled to electron spectral modelling.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Léna Jlassi , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Maria Werhahn , Joseph Whittingham , Philipp Girichidis

Feeding and feedback of active galactic nuclei (AGN) are critical for understanding the dynamics and thermodynamics of the intracluster medium (ICM) within the cores of galaxy clusters. While radio bubbles inflated by AGN jets could be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-23 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Gaspari , C. Marlow

We investigate the multiwavelength emission from hadronic and leptonic cosmic rays (CRs) in bubbles around galaxies, analogous to the Fermi bubbles of the Milky Way. The bubbles are modeled using 3D magnetohydrodynamical (MHD) simulations,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-24 Ellis R. Owen , H. -Y. Karen Yang

Feedback processes by active galactic nuclei in the centres of galaxy clusters appear to prevent large-scale cooling flows and impede star formation. However, the detailed heating mechanism remains uncertain. One promising heating scenario…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-30 Kristian Ehlert , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Rüdiger Pakmor , Volker Springel

Before the launch of the Fermi satellite only two classes of AGNs were known to produce relativistic jets and thus emit up to the gamma-ray energy range: blazars and radio galaxies, both hosted in giant elliptical galaxies. The first four…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , J. Finke , J. Larsson , M. Giroletti

We analyze the positional and morphological properties of about 3600 unique fast radio burst (FRB) sources reported in the second FRB catalog generated by the Canadian Hydrogen Intensity Mapping Experiment (CHIME) telescope. We find a…

The inner galaxy has hosted cosmic-ray burst events including those responsible for the gamma-ray Fermi bubbles and the eROSITA bubbles in X-rays. In this work, we study the AMS-02 positron fraction and find three features around 12, 21 and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Ilias Cholis , Iason Krommydas

The interaction between jets from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and the intracluster medium (ICM) provides key constraints on the feeding and feedback of supermassive black holes. Much understanding about AGN feedback is gained from purely…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-02 M. Kingsland , H. -Y. K. Yang , C. S. Reynolds , J. A. Zuhone

Relativistic jets are the most energetic manifestation of the active galactic nucleus (AGN) phenomenon. AGN jets are observed from the radio through gamma-rays and carry copious amounts of matter and energy from the sub-parsec central…

We studied bent radio sources within X-ray galaxy groups in the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields, using radio data from the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Explorations data release 1 (MIGHTEE-DR1) at 1.2-1.3 GHz (angular…