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Beaming effect is important for the observational properties of blazars. In this work, we collect 91 $Fermi$ blazars with available radio Doppler factors. $\gamma$-ray Doppler factors are estimated and compared with radio Doppler factors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 C. Lin , J. H. Fan , H. B. Xiao

We observed 5 gamma-ray loud blazars at redshift greater than 2 with the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) and the UltraViolet and Optical Telescope (UVOT) onboard the Swift satellite, and the Gamma-Ray burst Optical Near-Infrared Detector (GROND)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 G. Ghisellini , M. Nardini , G. Tagliaferri , J. Greiner , P. Schady , A. Rau , L. Foschini , F. Tavecchio , G. Ghirlanda , T. Sbarrato

The Fermi, Swift and INTEGRAL satellites, together with ground based (especially Cherenkov) telescopes made possible a great progress in our understanding of relativistic jets. We can now start to attack the difficult questions of jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-12-16 G. Ghisellini

The Fermi bubbles (FBs) are large gamma-ray emitting lobes extending up to $55\deg$ in latitude above and below the Galactic center (GC). Although the FBs were discovered 8 years ago, their origin and the nature of the gamma-ray emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-12-02 Laura Herold , Dmitry Malyshev

We propose a new model of Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) based on stellar mass black hole-massive star binaries. We argue that the inhomogeneity of the circumstellar materials or/and the time varying wind activities of the stellar companion will…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 Shu-Xu Yi , K. S. Cheng , Rui Luo

Jetted active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are the principal extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources. Fermi-detected high-redshift ($z>3$) blazars are jetted AGNs thought to be powered by massive, rapidly spinning supermassive black holes (SMBHs) in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-29 Colin J. Burke , Xin Liu , Yue Shen

Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) are the most powerful relativistic jets seen from supermassive black holes (BHs) accreting via a radiatively efficient thin disc. Their high energy emission is well modelled by highly relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-15 Emma Gardner , Chris Done

In recent work, we have identified two sub-populations of radio-loud AGN which appear to be distinguished by jet structure, where low-efficiency accreting systems produce `weak' jets which decelerate more rapidly than the `strong' jets of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 Eileen T. Meyer , Giovanni Fossati , Markos Georganopoulos , Matthew L. Lister

We examine the fundamental plane of 91 Blazars which include FSRQs and BL Lacs with known X-ray luminosity ($L_{R}$), radio luminosity ($L_X$), and black hole mass measurements ($M$) to reflect the relationship between jet and accretion for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-15 Xu Zhang , Dingrong Xiong , Quangui Gao , Guiqin Yang , Fangwu Lu , Weiwei Na , Longhua Qin

By cross-correlating an archival sample of 170 BL Lacs with 2 year \fermilat AGN sample, we have compiled a sample of 100 BL Lacs with \fermi detection (FBLs), and a sample of 70 non-\fermi BL Lacs (NFBLs). We compared various parameters of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhongzu Wu , D. R. Jiang , Minfeng Gu , Liang Chen

Active galactic nuclei formation and evolution is currently an open puzzle. Their enormous mass is not explainable via sub-Eddington accretion and the frequent presence of relativistic jets at high-z, commonly linked with spinning black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-09 Gabriele Alzati , Tullia Sbarrato , Gabriele Ghisellini

We study a sample of 30 high-redshift blazars ($z>2.5$) by means of spectra and the radiation mechanism with Fermi Large Area Telescope $\gamma$-ray observations spanning 15 years. Three models -- the power law, power law with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Fan Wu , Benzhong Dai

The correlation between the kinetic power $P_{\rm jet}$ and intrinsic bolometric luminosity $L_{\rm jet}$ of jets may reveal the underlying jet physics in various black hole systems. Based on the recent work by Nemmen et al. (2012), we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Renyi Ma , Fu-Guo Xie , Shujin Hou

Theoretical models for the production of relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei predict that jet power arises from the spin and mass of the central black hole, as well as the magnetic field near the event horizon. The physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , L. Maraschi , A. Celotti , T. Sbarrato

We discuss the relation between the power carried by relativistic jets and the nuclear power provided by accretion, for a group of blazars including FSRQs and BL Lac objects. They are characterized by good quality broad band X-ray data…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Laura Maraschi , Fabrizio Tavecchio

It is known that the blazar jet emissions are dominated by non-thermal radiation while the accretion disk jets are normally dominated by thermal emission. In this work, our aim is to study the connection between the two types of emission by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Hubing Xiao , Junhui Fan , Zhihao Ouyang , Liangjun Hu , Guohai Chen , Liping Fu , Shaohua Zhang

Theoretical models show that the power of relativistic jets of active galactic nuclei depends on the spin and mass of the central supermassive black holes, as well as the accretion. Here we report an analysis of archival observations of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-09 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Hongyan Zhou , Yefei Yuan , Weimin Gu , Qinwen Wu , Dingrong Xiong , Xiaotong Guo , Nan Ding , Xiaoling Yu

This article reports on a growing body of observational evidence that many powerful lobe dominated (FR II) radio sources likely have jets with high efficiency. This study extends the maximum efficiency line (jet power $\approx$ 25 times the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Brian Punsly

The jet formation is thought to be closely connected with the mass of central supermassive black hole in Active Galactic Nuclei. The radio luminosity commonly used in investigating this issue is merely an indirect measure of the energy…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Yi Liu , Dong Rong Jiang , Min Feng Gu

High resolution radio observations remain the most direct way to study the formation and evolution of radio jets associated with the accretion onto massive black holes. We report preliminary results of our seven year VLBA observational…