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Collapsars may be a source for the long Gamma Ray Bursts (GRBs) in the BATSE catalog. Collapsars may radiate gamma rays anisotropically by beamed jet emission close to the observer's line of sight. These jets must penetrate the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 E. A. Gomez , P. E. Hardee

We present the expected variability features in the context of the Synchro- Self-Compton (SSC) model of emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and show that the homogeneous SSC model describes well the observed multi- wavelength…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Mastichiadis , J. G. Kirk

We investigate the relationship between the variable gamma-ray emission and jet properties in the blazar 3C 279, by combining the Fermi/LAT data spanning a period of eight years with concurrent radio measurements made at multiple epochs…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-09-25 Víctor M. Patiño-Álvarez , Sergio A. Dzib , Andrei Lobanov , Vahram Chavushyan

We consider particle acceleration to high energy via diffusive shock acceleration in a simple, self-consistent shock in jet model for blazars. Electrons are assumed to be accelerated at a shock front in relativistic jets and radiate…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 F. M. Rieger , J. G. Kirk , A. Mastichiadis

lasma instabilities excited in collisionless shocks are responsible for particle acceleration. We have investigated the particle acceleration and shock structure associated with an unmagnetized relativistic electron-positron jet propagating…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 K. -I. Nishikawa , E. J. Choi , K. Min , P. Hardee , Y. Mizuno , B. Zhang , J. Niemiec , M. Medvedev , A. Nordlund , J. Fredriksen , M. Pohl , H. Sol , D. H. Hartmann , G. J. Fishman

Using the relativistic MHD code MPI-AMRVAC and a radiative transfer code in post-processing, we explore the influence of the magnetic-field configuration and transverse stratification of an over-pressured jet on its morphology, on the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Gaëtan Fichet de Clairfontaine , Zakaria Meliani , Andreas Zech , Olivier Hervet

Observations made with the VLBA have led to fundamental advances in our understanding of how radio jets in AGN evolve from parsec-scales out to distances exceeding several hundred kiloparsecs. In this review I discuss current models of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-12 Matthew L. Lister

Jets are observed in young stellar objects, X-ray sources, active galactic nuclei (AGN). The mechanisms of jet formation may be divided in regular, acting continuously for a long time, and explosive ones. Continuous mechanisms are related…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-16 G. S. Bisnovatyi-Kogan

The evolution of the spectral energy distribution during flares constrains models of particle acceleration in blazar jets. The archetypical blazar BL Lac provided a unique opportunity to study spectral variations during an extended strong…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-15 S. Agarwal , B. Banerjee , A. Shukla , J. Roy , S. Acharya , B. Vaidya , V. R. Chitnis , S. M. Wagner , K. Mannheim , M. Branchesi

The origin of late-time radio flares in tidal disruption events remains unclear. In particular, the peculiar radio flare observed in AT2018hyz has motivated two leading scenarios: a delayed outflow launched $\sim1000\,\rm days$ after…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-29 Tatsuya Matsumoto

Blazars are characterized by relativistic jets that are closely aligned with our line of sight. This results in relativistic beaming, making blazars among the most luminous extragalactic sources across the electromagnetic spectrum, from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Stamatios Ilias Stathopoulos , Maria Petropoulou

We analyze the parsec-scale jet kinematics from 2007 June to 2018 December of a sample of $\gamma$-ray bright blazars monitored roughly monthly with the Very Long Baseline Array at 43 GHz under the VLBA-BU-BLAZAR program. We implement a…

We have found evidence for interaction between a standing and a traveling shock in the jet of the blazar CTA 102. Our result is based in the study of the spectral evolution of the turnover frequency-turnover flux density plane. The radio/mm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 C. M. Fromm , M. Perucho , T. Savolainen , E. Ros , J. A. Zensus , A. Laehteenmaeki

We have performed two-dimensional special-relativistic magnetohydrodynamic simulations of non-equilibrium over-pressured relativistic jets in cylindrical geometry. Multiple stationary recollimation shock and rarefaction structures are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-03 Yosuke Mizuno , Jose L. Gomez , Ken-Ichi Nishikawa , Athina Meli , Philip E. Hardee , Luciano Rezzolla

Context. Blazar AO 0235+164, located at redshift z = 0.94, has undergone several sharp multi-spectral-range flaring episodes during the last decades. In particular, the episodes peaking in 2008 and 2015, that received extensive…

We explore the spectral and polarization properties of photospheric emissions from stratified jets in which multiple components, separated by a sharp velocity shear regions, are distributed in lateral direction. Propagation of thermal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Hirotaka Ito , Shigehiro Nagataki , Jin Matsumoto , Shiu-Hang Lee , Alexey Tolstov , Jirong Mao , Maria Dainotti , Akira Mizuta

We present images from a long term program (MOJAVE: Monitoring of Jets in AGN with VLBA Experiments) to survey the structure and evolution of parsec-scale jet phenomena associated with bright radio-loud active galaxies in the northern sky.…

Results of high-resolution simultaneous multi-frequency 8.1-15.4 GHz VLBA polarimetric observations of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei (the MOJAVE-2 project) are analyzed. We compare characteristics of VLBI features with jet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-12-31 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. P. Lobanov

The role of relativistic jets in unbinding the stellar envelope during a supernova (SN) associated with a gamma-ray burst (GRB) is unclear. To study that, we explore observational signatures of stellar explosions that are driven by jets. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Moshe Eisenberg , Ore Gottlieb , Ehud Nakar

The nature of jets in active galactic nuclei (AGN) in the early Universe and their feedback to the host galaxy remain a highly topical question. Observations of the radio structure of high-redshift AGNs enabled by very long baseline…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2022-06-08 Y. Zhang , T. An , A. Wang , S. Frey , L. I. Gurvits , K. E. Gabanyi , K. Perger , Z. Paragi