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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

Before the launch of the Fermi 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, both hosted in giant…

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

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

The origin of the radio emission in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is still debated. Multiple physical mechanisms can contribute to the spectrum at these frequencies, including relativistic jets, the jet base, outflows, star formation, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-01 M. Berton , E. Järvelä , S. Chen , L. Crepaldi , I. Varglund , M. Coloma Puga , A. Jimenez-Gallardo , A. Lähteenmäki , S. Panda , C. Piscitelli , A. Tortosa

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are active galactic nuclei (AGN) recently identified as a new class of $\gamma$-ray sources. The high energy emission is explained by the presence of a relativistic jet observed at small angles, just…

The discovery by the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi of variable gamma-ray emission from radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies revealed the presence of a possible third class of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , J. Finke , J. Larsson , M. Giroletti , C. M. Raiteri

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

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 F. D'Ammando , G. Tosti , M. Orienti , J. Finke

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are active galactic nuclei (AGN) believed to be in the early stages of their evolution. A fraction of them have been found to host relativistic jets. Due to the lack of large-scale diffuse radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-08-20 Emilia Järvelä , Marco Berton , Luca Crepaldi

Several narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) have now been detected in gamma rays, providing firm evidence that at least some of this class of active galactic nuclei (AGN) produce relativistic jets. The presence of jets in NLS1s is…

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are believed to be active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the early stages of their evolution. Some dozens of them have been found to host relativistic jets, whilst the majority has not even been detected in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-01-26 Emilia Järvelä , Rohan Dahale , Luca Crepaldi , Marco Berton , Enrico Congiu , Robert Antonucci

The detection by Fermi-LAT of gamma-ray emission from radio-loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1s (NLS1s) indicates that relativistic jets do not form only in blazars and radio galaxies, but also in other AGN populations. Despite a spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Orienti , F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) is one of the few classes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) harboring powerful relativistic jets and detected in $\gamma$ rays. NLS1s are well-known X-ray sources. While in non-jetted sources the origin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-18 M. Berton , V. Braito , S. Mathur , L. Foschini , E. Piconcelli , S. Chen , R. W. Pogge

The recent discovery by Fermi/LAT of high-energy (E>100 MeV) gamma rays from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies (NLS1s) made evident the existence of a third class of gamma-ray emitting Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), after blazars and radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Luigi Foschini

Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is generally radio-quiet, but a small percent of them are radio-loud. The recent discovery by Fermi/LAT of high-energy gamma-ray emission from 4 NLS1s proved the existence…

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are peculiar active galactic nuclei (AGN). Most of them do not show strong radio emission, but recently seven radio-quiet (or -silent) NLS1s have been detected flaring multiple times at 37 GHz by the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-04-22 M. Berton , E. Järvelä , L. Crepaldi , A. Lähteenmäki , M. Tornikoski , E. Congiu , P. Kharb , G. Terreran , A. Vietri

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are a type of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that were originally classified as sources with little to no radio emission. Although the class is rather unified from an optical perspective, their radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-26 I. Varglund , E. Järvelä , M. J. Hardcastle , S. Varglund , A. Lähteenmäki

Until recently, relativistic jets were ubiquitously found to be launched from giant elliptical galaxies. However, the detection by the Fermi-LAT of gamma-ray emission from radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (RL-NLSy1) galaxies raised doubts…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Alejandro Olguín-Iglesias , Jari Kotilainen , Vahram Chavushyan

Radio-loud Narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies are unique probes of the formation of powerful radio jets at extreme (near-Eddington) accretion rates and low black hole masses, in a regime very different from classical blazars and,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-07 S. Komossa

As one of the drivers of feedback in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), the jets launched from supermassive black holes (SMBHs) are important for understanding the co-evolution of SMBHs and their host galaxies. However, the formation of AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-06 Su Yao , S. Komossa

Narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) usually do not host relativistic jets and the detection of their $\gamma$-ray emissions is rarely reported. Evidences for strong relativistic beaming effect have been found in all $\gamma$-ray NLS1s to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-06 Neng-Hui Liao , Yun-Feng Liang , Shan-Shan Weng , Marco Berton , Min-Feng Gu , Yi-Zhong Fan
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