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Blazars, a subset of powerful active galactic nuclei, feature relativistic jets that shine in a broadband electromagnetic radiation, e. g. from radio to TeV emission. Here I present the results of the studies that explore gamma-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Gopal Bhatta

Some of the very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray sources detected with the modern generation of Cherenkov telescopes have been identified with previously known X-ray binary systems. These detections demonstrate the richness of non-thermal…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Josep M. Paredes

A significant fraction ($\sim 30$ %) of the gamma-ray sources listed in the second $\textit{Fermi}$ LAT (2FGL) catalog is still of unknown origin, being not yet associated with counterparts at lower energies. Using the available information…

The average Spectral Energy Distributions (SED) of different classes of blazars from the radio to the gamma-ray band are studied adopting a "complete-sample" approach. The SED are globally similar, despite systematic differences in specific…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. Fossati , A. Celotti , G. Ghisellini , L. Maraschi

Galactic microquasars are certainly one of the most recent additions to the field of high energy astrophysics and have attracted increasing interest over the last decade. However, the high energy part of the spectrum of microquasars is the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Josep M. Paredes

Gamma-ray binaries are X-ray binaries with gamma-ray emissions. Their multi-wavelength emissions range from radio, optical, X-ray and to very high energy (TeV). X-ray emissions are crucial to understand the nature of gamma-ray binaries.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-22 Jian Li , Diego F. Torres , Shu Zhang , Jianmin Wang

Recent observations have shown that pulsars are surrounded by extended regions which emit TeV-scale gamma rays through the inverse Compton scattering of very high energy electrons and positrons. Such TeV halos are responsible for a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 Fei Xu , Dan Hooper

During last years a few massive binary systems have been detected in the TeV gamma-rays. This gamma-ray emission is clearly modulated with the orbital periods of these binaries suggesting its origin inside the binary system. In this paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-06-27 W. Bednarek

The recent observation of high-energy neutrinos from the 2017 flare of the blazar TXS~0506+056, together with counterparts across the whole electromagnetic spectrum, opens up new possibilities for investigating the properties of this class…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-11 Andrey Saveliev , Rafael Alves Batista

Many gamma-ray burst counterpart searches are being conducted in the optical-UV band. To both predict detectability and understand the meaning of any detections or upper limits, we extrapolate gamma-ray spectra from 54 bright gamma-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Lyle Ford , David Band

Gamma rays constitute a privileged point of view for the study of the extreme Universe. Unlike charged cosmic rays, which are thought to have a common origin, gamma rays are not deflected by galactic and intergalactic magnetic fields. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-13 Elisa Prandini , Konstantinos Dialektopoulos , Jelena Strišković

The coexistence of Planck and Fermi satellites in orbit has enabled the exploration of the connection between the (sub-)millimeter and gamma-ray emission in a large sample of blazars. We find that the gamma-ray emission and the (sub-)mm…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 J. Leon-Tavares , E. Valtaoja , P. Giommi , G. Polenta , M. Tornikoski , A. Lahteenmaki , D. Gasparrini , S. Cutini

Bearing on the model for the time-dependent metagalactic radiation field developed in the first paper of this series, we compute the gamma-ray attenuation due to pair production in photon-photon scattering. Emphasis is on the effects of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 T. M. Kneiske , T. Bretz , K. Mannheim , D. H. Hartmann

Gamma-ray astronomy will play a crucial role in the investigation of nonthermal processes in the large scale structure of the universe. Particularly, galaxy clusters (GC) observations at this photon energy will help us understand the origin…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Francesco Miniati

The propagation of very-high-energy gamma-rays (VHEGRs) in the extragalactic space offers the opportunity to study astrophysical phenomena not reproducible in laboratories. In particular, the deviation from predictions of the observed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-27 Luis Enrique Espinosa Castro , Simone Rossoni , Günter Sigl

The blazar 1ES 1959+650 was observed in a flaring state with the Whipple 10 m Imaging Atmospheric Cherenkov Telescope during May of 2002. A spectral analysis has been carried out on the data from that time period and the resulting very high…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. K. Daniel

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are now known to be strong gamma-ray emitters. After briefly describing the different classes of AGN and the basic tenets of unified schemes, I discuss the role of blazars (that is BL Lacs and flat-spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Padovani

Attenuation of the TeV gamma-ray flux from distant blazars through pair production with extragalactic background light leads to the development of electromagnetic cascades and subsequent, lower energy, GeV secondary gamma-ray emission. Due…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. M. Taylor , I. Vovk , A. Neronov

We update the list of GeV-TeV extragalactic \gamma-ray sources using the 2-year catalog from the Fermi-LAT and recent results ground-based \gamma-ray telescopes. Breaks in the spectra between the high energy (100 MeV <E< 300 GeV) and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-05 D. A. Sanchez , S. Fegan , B. Giebels

Gamma-ray bursts have been detected at photon energies up to tens of GeV. We review some recent developments in the X-ray to GeV photon phenomenology in the light of Swift and Fermi observations, and some of the theoretical models developed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-16 Peter Mészáros