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The construction of large volume detectors of high energy, >1 TeV, neutrinos is mainly driven by the search for extra-Galactic neutrino sources. The existence of such sources is implied by observations of ultra-high energy, >10^{19} eV,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 E. Waxman

4FGL J1405.1-6119 is a high-mass $\gamma$-ray emitting binary that has been studied at several wavelengths. The nature of this type of binary is still under debate, with three possible scenarios usually invoked to explain the origin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-20 Enzo A. Saavedra , Federico A. Fogantini , Gastón J. Escobar , Gustavo E. Romero , Jorge A. Combi , Estefania Marcel

The last few years have seen gamma-ray astronomy maturing and advancing in the field of time-domain astronomy, utilizing source variability on timescales over many orders of magnitudes, from a decade down to a few minutes and shorter,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Frank M. Rieger

Giant radio sources, including galaxies and quasars (hereafter GRGs), are active galactic nuclei (AGN) hosting relativistic jets with source sizes exceeding the projected length of 0.7 Mpc. They are crucial to understanding the evolution of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Vaidehi S. Paliya , D. J. Saikia , Gabriele Bruni , Alberto Dominguez , C. S. Stalin

A recent progress in the study of $\gamma$-ray jets is reviewed, with a focus on some theoretical interpretations of the VHE emission from M87, and possibly other misaligned blazars; the connection betwe en the GeV breaks exhibited by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Amir Levinson

The jets of active galactic nuclei can carry a large fraction of the accreted power of the black-hole system into interstellar and even extragalactic space. They radiate profusely from radio to X-ray and gamma-ray frequencies. In the most…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-15 A. P. Marscher

Advances in X-ray and gamma-ray astronomy have opened a new window on our universe and revealed a wide variety of binaries composed of a compact object and a Be star. In Be X-ray binaries, a neutron star accretes the Be disk and truncates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-10-15 Astrid Lamberts

This article reviews our current understanding about $\gamma$-ray detected narrow-line Seyfert 1 ($\gamma$-NLSy1) galaxies. The detection with the Large Area Telescope onboard {\it Fermi}~Gamma-ray Space Telescope has provided the strongest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-10-16 Vaidehi S. Paliya

Being dominated by non-thermal emission from aligned relativistic jets, blazars allow us to elucidate the physics of extragalactic jets, and, ultimately, how energy is extracted from the central black hole. Crucial information about jet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Rita M. Sambruna

X-ray and gamma-ray binaries are systems consisting of a compact object and normally a non-degenerate companion star. Most of these sources have been shown to emit radiation in a broad frequency range, from radio up to X-rays and sometimes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-22 E. Molina , A. López-Oramas , D. Hadasch , J. Hoang

We are compiling a new list of gamma-ray jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN), starting from the fourth catalog of point sources of the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Our aim is to prepare a list of jetted AGN with known redshifts and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-06 L. Foschini , M. L. Lister , S. Antón , M. Berton , S. Ciroi , M. J. M. Marchã , M. Tornikoski , E. Järvelä , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , E. Dalla Bontà

Microquasars are X-ray binaries with relativistic jets. These jets are powerful energy carriers, thought to be fed by accretion, which produce non-thermal emission at different energy bands. To date, several Galactic sources showing…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-23 Valenti Bosch-Ramon , Dmitry Khangulyan

Most extragalactic jets in radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei are bright and variable gamma-ray sources, which are continuously monitored with Fermi/LAT. We present the gamma-ray properties of the MOJAVE and TANAMI AGN samples of radio-loud…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-15 M. Boeck , M. Kadler , G. Tosti , T. H. Burnett , C. Mueller , R. Ojha , J. Wilms

Recent discovery of the afterglow emission from short gamma-ray bursts suggests that binary neutron star or black hole-neutron star binary mergers are the likely progenitors of these short bursts. The accretion of neutron star material and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 Soebur Razzaque , Peter Meszaros

This review focuses on the X-ray emission processes of extra-galactic jets on scales resolvable by the sub arcsec resolution of the Chandra X-ray Observatory. It is divided into 4 parts. The introductory chapter reviews the classical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 D. E. Harris , Henric Krawczynski

Relativistic outflows are a common phenomenon in accreting black holes. Despite the enormous differences in scale, stellar-mass black holes in X-ray binaries and collapsars, and super-massive black holes at the dynamic centre of galaxies…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-08-23 I. F. Mirabel

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has identified several individual neutrino emitters associated with supermassive black hole accretion phenomena, including blazars, tidal disruption events, and, unexpectedly, Seyfert galaxies. A key open…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 Shuying Zhou , Mouyuan Sun , Guobin Mou , Da-bin Lin , Tong Liu , Ming-Xuan Lu , Yongquan Xue

In this work, after making an attempt to improve the formulation of the model on particle transport within astrophysical plasma outflows and constructing the appropriate algorithms, we test the reliability and effectiveness of our method…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-30 D. A. Papadopoulos , O. T. Kosmas , S. Ganatsios

High energy gamma-ray astronomy has recently made significant progresss through ground-based instruments like the {\it H.E.S.S.} array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. The unprecedented angular resolution and the large field of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Heinrich J. Voelk

We discuss the high energy neutrino emission from gamma-ray bursts resulting from the earliest generation (`population III') stars forming in the Universe, whose core collapses into a black hole. These gamma-ray bursts are expected to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-25 Shan Gao , Kenji Toma , Peter Meszaros