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We present very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of 179 radio sources in the COSMOS field with extremely high sensitivity using the Green Bank Telescope (GBT) together with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) (VLBA+GBT) at…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope is producing the most detailed inventory of the gamma-ray sky to date. Despite tremendous achievements approximately 25% of all Fermi extragalactic sources in the Second Fermi LAT Catalogue (2FGL) are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-12 T. Hassan , N. Mirabal , J. L. Contreras , I. Oya

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) with their jets pointed close to our line of sight constitute the majority of extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources and significantly contribute to the radiation observed in the even higher energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-06 J. Kőmíves , K. É. Gabányi , S. Frey , Z. Paragi , T. An , E. Kun

In its first three months of operations, the Fermi Gamma-Ray Observatory has detected approximately one quarter of the radio-flux-limited MOJAVE sample of bright flat-spectrum active galactic nuclei (AGNs) at energies above 100 MeV. We have…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2011-02-11 M. L. Lister , D. C. Homan , M. Kadler , K. I. Kellermann , Y. Y. Kovalev , E. Ros , T. Savolainen , J. A. Zensus

Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) exhibit variability across a wide range of time scales. Traditionally, this variability can often be modeled well as a stochastic process. However, in certain cases, jetted AGN variability displays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 P. Penil , A. Domínguez , S. Buson , M. Ajello , S. Adhikari , A. Rico

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are remarkable astronomical sources emitting over the whole electromagnetic spectrum, with different bands providing unique windows on distinct sub-structures and their related physics. AGN come in a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-27 Paolo Padovani

We present deep Near-infrared (NIR) images of a sample of 19 intermediate-redshift ($0.3<z<1.0$) radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) with powerful relativistic jets ($L_{1.4GHz} >10^{27}$ WHz$^{-1}$), previously classified as…

We present high angular resolution radio snap-shot observations of seven nearby low-luminosity active galaxies (LLAGN) from the NUclei of GAlaxies (NUGA) survey. The observations were conducted with MERLIN and EVN/VLBI at 18cm and 6cm. At…

We interpret the recent discovery of a preferable VLBI/Gaia offset direction for radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) along the parsec-scale radio jets as a manifestation of their optical structure on scales of 1 to 100 milliarcseconds.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-25 Leonid Petrov , Yuri Y. Kovalev

We collect data at all frequencies for the new sources classified as unknown active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the latest Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) all-sky hard X-ray catalog. Focusing on the 36 sources with measured redshift, we compute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-07 Luca Giuliani , Gabriele Ghisellini , Tullia Sbarrato

We studied bent radio sources within X-ray galaxy groups in the COSMOS and XMM-LSS fields, using radio data from the MeerKAT International GHz Tiered Extragalactic Explorations data release 1 (MIGHTEE-DR1) at 1.2-1.3 GHz (angular…

We present full polarization Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations at 5 GHz and 15 GHz of 24 compact active galactic nuclei (AGN). These sources were observed as part of a pilot project to demonstrate the feasibility of conducting a…

We study the possibility of detecting a signature of particle dark matter in the spectrum of gamma-ray photons from active galactic nuclei (AGNs) resulting from the scattering of high-energy particles in the AGN jet off of dark matter…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-10-27 Mikhail Gorchtein , Stefano Profumo , Lorenzo Ubaldi

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are ideal sources for multi-wavelength studies as their emission can cover almost 20 orders of magnitude in frequency from the radio to the gamma-ray band. After reviewing their basic properties, I will assess…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Padovani

We report on the first results of the POLAMI program, a simultaneous 3.5 and 1.3mm full-Stokes-polarisation monitoring of a sample of 36 of the brightest active galactic nuclei in the northern sky with the IRAM 30m Telescope. Through a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-27 Ivan Agudo , Clemens Thum , Venkatessh Ramakrishnan , Sol N. Molina , Carolina Casadio , Jose L. Gomez

We present 5321 milliarcsecond-resolution total intensity and linear polarization maps of 437 active galactic nuclei (AGNs) obtained with the VLBA at 15 GHz as part of the MOJAVE survey, and also from the NRAO data archive. The former is a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-01-18 M. L. Lister , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , M. A. Hodge , D. C. Homan , Y. Y. Kovalev , A. B. Pushkarev , T. Savolainen

High-redshift radio sources provide plentiful opportunities for studying the formation and evolution of early galaxies and supermassive black holes. However, the number of known radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) above redshift 4 is…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-06-29 M. Krezinger , K. Perger , K. É. Gabányi , S. Frey , L. I Gurvits , Zs. Paragi , T. An , Y. Zhang , H. Cao , T. Sbarrato

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to be one of the main source candidates for the high-energy (TeV-PeV) cosmic neutrino flux recently discovered by the IceCube neutrino observatory. Nevertheless, several correlation studies between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 G. Maggi , S. Buitink , P. Correa , K. D. de Vries , G. Gentile , J. Leon Tavares , O. Scholten , N. van Eijndhoven , M. Vereecken , T. Winchen

Aims. We use a sample of 83 core-dominated active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected from the MOJAVE (Monitoring of Jets in AGN with VLBA Experiments) radio-flux-limited sample and detected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) to study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. G. Arshakian , J. León-Tavares , M. Boettcher , J. Torrealba , V. H. Chavushyan , M. L. Lister , E. Ros , J. A. Zensus

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are sources of high-energy gamma-rays and are considered to be promising candidates to be sources of high-energy cosmic rays and neutrinos as well. We present and discuss various models for ion acceleration and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-13 Kohta Murase , Floyd W. Stecker