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Blazars are known to show flux variations over a range of energies from low energy radio to high energy gamma-rays. Cross-correlation analysis of the optical and $\gamma$-ray light curves in blazars shows that flux variations are generally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 Bhoomika Rajput , C. S. Stalin , S. Sahayanathan

Due to its powerful radiation over the entire electromagnetic spectrum and its radio jet activity, the blazar 3C273 offers the opportunity to study the physics of $\gamma$-ray emission from active galactic nuclei. Since a historically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Dae-Won Kim , Sascha Trippe , Evgeniya V. Kravchenko

Beams of ultra-relativistic electrons in blazar jets develop pair cascades interacting with ambient soft photons. Employing coupled kinetic equations with escape terms, we model the unsaturated pair cascade spectrum. We assume that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-06 Christoph Wendel , Josefa Becerra González , Amit Shukla , David Paneque , Karl Mannheim

We present multi-wavelength monitoring results for the broad-line radio galaxy 3C 120 in the MeV/GeV, sub-millimeter, and 43 GHz bands over six years. Over the past two years, Fermi-LAT sporadically detected 3C 120 with high significance…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 Y. T. Tanaka , A. Doi , Y. Inoue , C. C. Cheung , L. Stawarz , Y. Fukazawa , M. A. Gurwell , M. Tahara , J. Kataoka , R. Itoh

BL Lacertae, the prototype of the BL Lacertae (BL Lac) category of blazars, underwent a giant $\gamma-$ray flare in April 2021. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (hereafter Fermi-LAT) observed a peak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 Ashwani Pandey , C. S. Stalin

The gamma-ray emission offers a powerful diagnostic tool to probe jets and their surroundings in flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ). In particular, sources emitting at high energies (>10 GeV) give us the strongest constraints. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 L. Pacciani , F. Tavecchio , I. Donnarumma , A. Stamerra , L. Carrasco , E. Recillas , A. Porras , M. Uemura

In May - July 2014, the flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 454.3 exhibited strong flaring behaviour. Observations with the Large Area Telescope detector on-board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope captured the $\gamma$-ray flux at energies 0.1…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-23 Rosemary T. Coogan , Anthony M. Brown , Paula M. Chadwick

3C 279 showed enhanced flux variations in Fermi-LAT {\gamma}-ray observations from January to June 2018. We present a detailed Fermi-LAT analysis to investigate the variability and spectral behaviors of 3C 279 during the {\gamma}-ray flares…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-29 Gege Wang , Junhui Fan , Hubing Xiao , Jinting Cai

We report the detection of gamma-ray emission by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) towards the young massive star cluster RCW 38 in the 1-500 GeV photon energy range. We found spatially extended GeV emission towards the direction…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-29 Ting-Ting Ge , Xiao-Na Sun , Rui-Zhi Yang , Pak-Hin Thomas Tam , Ming-Xuan Lu , En-Wei Liang

The solar disk is a bright source of multi-GeV gamma rays, due to the interactions of hadronic cosmic rays with the solar atmosphere. However, the underlying production mechanism is not understood, except that its efficiency must be greatly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-09 Qing-Wen Tang , Kenny C. Y. Ng , Tim Linden , Bei Zhou , John F. Beacom , Annika H. G. Peter

Very High Energy (VHE) gamma-rays in pulsars, and their surrounding halos, are interpreted to originate from the leptonic channel, electromagnetic interactions through electron inverse Compton (IC) scattering. In the hadronic scenario,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Sonali Sahoo , Ankan Roy , Kritika Yadav , Reetanjali Moharana

The very short and bright flare of 3C 279 detected with {\it Fermi}-LAT in 2013 December is tested by a model with stochastic electron acceleration by turbulences. Our time-dependent simulation shows that the very hard spectrum and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Katsuaki Asano , Masaaki Hayashida

Blazars are strongly variable sources that occasionally show spectacular flares visible in various energy bands. These flares are often, but not always, correlated. In a number of cases the peaks of optical flares are found to be somewhat…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Mateusz Janiak , Marek Sikora , Krzysztof Nalewajko , Rafał Moderski , Greg M. Madejski

We report the detection of optical and ultraviolet emission from the kiloparsec scale jet of the well-known quasar 3C~279. A bright knot, discovered in archival V and U band {\it Hubble Space Telescope} Faint Object Camera images, is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 C. C. Cheung

We compare the gamma-ray photon flux variability of northern blazars in the Fermi/LAT First Source Catalog with 37 GHz radio flux density curves from the Metsahovi quasar monitoring program. We find that the relationship between…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 J. Leon-Tavares , E. Valtaoja , M. Tornikoski , A. Lahteenmaki , E. Nieppola

Blazars, a class of highly variable active galactic nuclei, sometimes exhibit Orphan $\gamma$-ray flares. These flares having high flux only in $\gamma$-ray energies do not show significant variations in flux at lower energies. We study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-21 S. R. Patel , D. Bose , N. Gupta , M. Zuberi

Almost 10 yr of $\gamma$-ray observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) have revealed extreme $\gamma$-ray outbursts from flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), temporarily making these objects the brightest $\gamma$-ray emitters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-31 Manuel Meyer , Jeffrey D. Scargle , Roger D. Blandford

We report simultaneous observations at different energy bands in radio, optical, UV, X-rays and $\gamma$ rays of the flat-spectrum radio-quasar 3C 345. We built the light curve of the source at different frequencies from 2008, the beginning…

We compare the gamma-ray photon flux variability of northern blazars in the Fermi/LAT First Source Catalog with 37 GHz radio flux density curves from the Metsahovi quasar monitoring program. We find that the relationship between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-25 J. Leon-Tavares , E. Valtaoja , M. Tornikoski , A. Lahteenmaki , E. Nieppola

An exceptional $\gamma$-ray outburst from 3C 279 is detected by {\it Fermi}-Large Area Telescope (LAT) in 2015 June. In the energy range of 0.1$-$300 GeV, the highest flux measured is (39.1$\pm$2.5) $\times$ 10$^{-6}$ \phflux, which is the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-06 Vaidehi S. Paliya