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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

X-ray selected BL Lac objects dominate the population of extragalactic sources detected in the very high energy (VHE; photon energies >100GeV) gamma-ray regime with ground-based Cherenkov Telescopes. These are not the only extragalactic VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Stawarz

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and their relativistic jets belong to the most promising class of ultra-high-energy cosmic ray (UHECR) accelerators. This compact review summarises basic experimental findings by recent instruments, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 Frank M. Rieger

High-energy {\gamma}-rays, which are produced by powerful relativistic jets, are usually associated with blazars and radio galaxies. In the current active galactic nuclei (AGN) paradigm, such jets are almost exclusively launched from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-24 Emilia Järvelä , Anne Lähteenmäki , Jonathan León-Tavares

In the recent years, the new generation of Imaging Atmospheric Cerenkov Telescopes successfully detected very high energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma-ray emission from a growing number of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs), mainly belonging to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-07-13 J. -P. Lenain

We report on a detailed investigation of the gamma-ray emission from 18 broad line radio galaxies (BLRGs) based on two years of Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) data. We confirm the previously reported detections of 3C 120 and 3C 111 in the…

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

Context.In recent years, non-blazar Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) such as Radio Galaxies have emerged as a highly instructive source class providing unique insights into high energy acceleration and radiation mechanisms. Aims.Here we aim at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Faiçal Ait Benkhali , Nachiketa Chakraborty , Frank M. Rieger

Typical blazars seem to be associated with FR I and FR II radio galaxies and radio-loud quasars. However, what happens at lower powers? Do blazars exist in low-luminosity AGN or do they exist in radio-quiet AGN? A recent detection of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heino Falcke , Sera Markoff , Peter L. Biermann

Seyfert galaxies and quasars were first discovered through optical and radio techniques, but in recent years high-energy emission, that can penetrate central gas and dust, has become essentially the defining characteristic of an AGN. AGNs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. M. Worrall

Relativistic jets in AGN in general, and in blazars in particular, are the most energetic and among the most powerful astrophysical objects known so far. Their relativistic nature provides them with the ability to emit profusely at all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-10-09 Ivan Agudo , Alan P. Marscher , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Jose L. Gomez

In the last decade of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) monitoring programs, the Mets\"ahovi Radio Observatory detected multiple times seven powerful flaring narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) galaxies at 37 GHz. Several hypotheses have been proposed,…

The recent release of the First Fermi-LAT Source Catalog solidified the predominant association of extragalactic gamma-ray emitters to active galaxies, in particular blazars. A tight connection between AGN jet kinematics and gamma-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-25 Marios Karouzos , Silke Britzen , Arno Witzel , Anton Zensus , Andreas Eckart

The launch of the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and the imaging air Cerenkov telescopes H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS have substantially transformed our knowledge of gamma-ray sources in the last decade. The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-02 C. Pfrommer

The detection of very-high-energy (VHE; $>$100 GeV) $\gamma$-ray radiation from misaligned jetted Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) challenges the emission models that primarily explain VHE emissions from beamed AGN, i.e., blazars. Using over 16…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-25 Gunjan Tomar , Vaidehi S. Paliya , D. J. Saikia , C. S. Stalin

We first review some basic properties of the most important classes of active galactic nuclei (AGN), including quasars, blazars, Seyfert galaxies and radio galaxies. The most commonly accepted type of scheme designed to individually unify…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paul J. Wiita

Most of the gamma-ray emitting active galactic nuclei (AGN) are blazars, although there is still a small fraction of non-blazar AGN in the Fermi/LAT catalog. Among these misaligned gamma-ray-emitting AGN, a few can be classified as Compact…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-11 T. An , Y. -Z. Cui , K. E. Gabanyi , S. Frey , W. A. Baan , W. Zhao

We present the first catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected by the LAT, corresponding to 11 months of data collected in scientific operation mode. The First LAT AGN Catalog (1LAC) includes 671 gamma-ray sources located at high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 A. A. Abdo

3C 216 is an extragalactic radio source classified as a compact steep spectrum (CSS) object, associated with the source 4FGL J0910.0+4257 detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. The source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-11 Federica Giacchino , Giovanni La Mura , Stefano Ciprini , Dario Gasparrini , Marcello Giroletti , Marco Laurenti

We report our identification of three gigaelectronvolt $\gamma$-ray sources, 4FGL J0502.6+0036, 4FGL J1055.9+6507, and 4FGL J1708.2+5519, as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). They are listed in the latest Fermi-LAT source catalog as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-21 Shunhao Ji , Zhongxiang Wang , Qiangmeng Huang , Ruoheng Yang