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Our understanding of the unification of jetted AGNs has advanced greatly as the size of extragalactic sources increased. In the present paper, based on the large sample of radio sources, we compiled 680 blazars (279 FSRQs and 401 BL Lacs)…

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The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) has detected more than 7,000 gamma-ray sources, a significant fraction of which are identified as blazars, while a comparable number remain classified as blazars of uncertain type (BCUs) or are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-03 Saqlain Afroz , Titir Mukherjee , Raj Prince

We present a temporal and spectral analysis of the gamma-ray flux from nine of the brightest flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) detected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) during its first eight years of operation, with the aim of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-20 Atreya Acharyya , Paula M. Chadwick , Anthony M. Brown

Despite the fact that blazars constitute the rarest class among active galactic nuclei (AGNs) they are the largest known population of associated $\gamma$-ray sources. Many of the $\gamma$-ray objects listed in the Fermi-Large Area…

We put forward a scenario where blazars are classified as flat-spectrum radio quasars, BL Lacs, low synchrotron, or high synchrotron peaked objects according to a varying combination of Doppler boosted radiation from the jet, emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 P. Padovani , P. Giommi , G. Polenta , S. Turriziani , V. D'Elia , S. Piranomonte

Blazars can be divided into two subtypes, flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and BL Lac objects, which have been distinguished phenomenologically by the strength of their optical emission lines, while their physical nature and relationship…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Makoto Uemura , Taisei Abe , Yurika Yamada , Shiro Ikeda

The Fermi Large Area Telescope revealed that the extragalactic gamma-ray sky is dominated by blazars, active galactic nuclei (AGN) whose jet is seen at very small angle to the line of sight. To associate and then classify the gamma-ray…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-09 K. É. Gabányi , S. Frey , T. An

High redshift blazars are among the most powerful non-explosive sources in the Universe and play a crucial role in understanding the evolution of relativistic jets. To understand these bright objects, we performed a detailed investigation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 N. Sahakyan , G. Harutyunyan , S. Gasparyan , D. Israyelyan

In this study, we systematically studied the X-ray to GeV gamma-ray spectra of 61 {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope (LAT) detected radio galaxies. We found an anticorrelation between peak frequency and peak luminosity in the high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Yasushi Fukazawa , Hiroto Matake , Taishu Kayanoki , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Justin Finke

To fully exploit the scientific potential of the Fermi mission, we initiated the F-GAMMA program. Between 2007 and 2015 it was the prime provider of complementary multi-frequency monitoring in the radio regime. We quantify the radio…

The Low Frequency Array (LOFAR) is uniquely able to perform deep, 15" resolutions imaging at frequencies below 100 MHz. Observations in this regime, using the Low Band Antenna (LBA) system, are significantly affected by instrumental and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-14 J. M. Boxelaar , F. De Gasperin , M. J. Hardcastle , J. H. Croston , L. K. Morabito , R. J. van Weeren , H. Edler

Blazars represent the most abundant class of high-energy extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources. The subset of blazars known as BL Lac objects is on average closer to Earth and characterized by harder spectra at high energy than the whole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-26 M. Di Mauro , F. Donato , G. Lamanna , D. A. Sanchez , P. D. Serpico

Multi-Messenger observations and theory of astrophysical objects is fast becoming a critical research area in the astrophysics scientific community. In particular, point-like objects like that of BL Lac, flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ),…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-05-24 Ronald Gamble , Jordan Forman , Amethyst Barnes , Gokul Srinivasaragavan , Isiah Holt , Marvin Jones

Blazars are among the most studied sources in high-energy astrophysics as they form the largest fraction of extragalactic gamma-ray sources and are considered prime candidates for being the counterparts of high-energy astrophysical…

We present multi-frequency radio observations of a sample of z~2 obscured (type-2) quasars in the Spitzer extragalactic First Look Survey area. We combine the public data at 1.4 GHz, used in the selection of these sources, with new…

We analyze the angular power spectrum (APS) of the unresolved gamma-ray background (UGRB) emission and combine it with the measured properties of the resolved gamma-ray sources of the Fermi-LAT 4FGL catalog. Our goals are to dissect the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-07 Michael Korsmeier , Elena Pinetti , Michela Negro , Marco Regis , Nicolao Fornengo

We present a method to assess the reliability of the identification of EGRET sources with extragalactic radio sources. We verify that EGRET is detecting the blazar class of AGN. However, many published identifications are found to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 J. R. Mattox , J. Schachter , L. Molnar , R. C. Hartman , A. R. Patnaik

We have conducted two pilot surveys for radio pulsars and fast transients with the Low-Frequency Array (LOFAR) around 140 MHz and here report on the first low-frequency fast-radio burst limit and the discovery of two new pulsars. The first…