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We describe a Chandra X-ray ToO project designed to isolate the site of TeV flaring in the radio galaxy M87. To date, we have triggered the Chandra observations only once (2010 April) and by the time of the first of our 9 observations, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 D. E. Harris , F. Massaro , C. C. Cheung , D. Horns , M. Raue , L. Stawarz , S. Wagner , P. Colin , D. Mazin , R. Wagner , M. Beilicke , S. LeBohec , M. Hui , R. Mukherjee

We searched for a short-term X-ray variability of the M87 core and jet from archival X-ray data with long exposure data taken by the Suzaku, Chandra, and NuSTAR telescopes. We found the intraday variability for the Suzaku data obtained in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Ryo Imazawa , Yasushi Fukazawa , Hiromitsu Takahashi

X-ray flares are generally supposed to be produced by the later central engine activities, and may share the similar physical origin with prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). In this paper, we have analyzed all significant X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-08 Shuang-Xi Yi , Shao-Qiang Xi , Hai Yu , F. Y. Wang , Hui-Jun Mu , Lian-Zhong Lv , En-Wei Liang

Where particle acceleration and plasma heating take place in relation to magnetic reconnection is a fundamental question for solar flares. We report analysis of an M7.7 flare on 2012 July 19 observed by SDO/AIA and RHESSI. Bi-directional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-04-04 Wei Liu , Qingrong Chen , Vahe' Petrosian

We have carried out Chandra, HST, and VLA observations of four MOJAVE blazars that have been previously classified as 'hybrid' (FR I/II) blazars in terms of radio morphology but not total radio power. The motivation of this study is to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-24 Biny Sebastian , Preeti Kharb , Matthew L. Lister , Herman L. Marshall , Christopher P. O'Dea , Stefi A. Baum

Flares from the Sun and other stars are most prominently observed in the soft X-ray band. Most of the radiated energy, however, is released at optical/UV wavelengths. In spite of decades of investigation, the physics of flares is not fully…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-12-05 E. Flaccomio , G. Micela , S. Sciortino , A. M. Cody , M. G. Guarcello , M. Morales-Calderòn , L. Rebull , J. R. Stauffer

Flares are powerful events ignited by a sudden release of magnetic energy. With the aim of studying flares in the 125-Myr-old stars in the Pleiades observed simultaneously in optical and X-ray light, we obtained new XMM-Newton observations…

We present systematic analysis of spatio-temporal evolution of sources of hard X-ray (HXR) pulsations in solar flares. We concentrate on disk flares whose impulsive phase are accompanied by a series of more than three peaks (pulsations) of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-25 S. A. Kuznetsov , I. V. Zimovets , A. S. Morgachev , A. B. Struminsky

We report on the detailed radio status of the M87 jet during the Very-High-Energy (VHE) gamma-ray flaring event in April 2010, obtained from high-resolution, multi-frequency, phase-referencing VLBA observations. We especially focus on the…

We study the energy-release process in the confined X1.6 flare that occurred on 22 October 2014 in AR 12192. Magnetic-reconnection rates and reconnection fluxes are derived from three different data sets: space-based data from the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-04 A. M. Veronig , W. Polanec

X-ray flares have been discovered in black hole systems, such as gamma-ray bursts, the tidal disruption event Swift J1644+57, the supermassive black hole Sagittarius A$^*$ at the center of our Galaxy, and some active galactic nuclei. Their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 F. Y. Wang , Z. G. Dai , S. X. Yi , S. Q. Xi

We present the results from an X-ray and optical survey of a sample of 17 radio jets in AGN performed with Chandra and HST. The sample was selected from the radio and is unbiased toward detection at shorter wavelengths, but preferentially…

We discuss some of the preliminary results and findings derived from the analysis of a first sample of flares detected by the XRT on board Swift. The analysis shows that the morphology of flares is the one we expect from the collision of…

Active galactic nuclei with misaligned jets have been recently established as a class of high-energy gamma-ray sources. M87, a nearby representative of this class, shows fast TeV variability on timescales less than one day. We present…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Maxim V. Barkov , Valenti Bosch-Ramon , Felix A. Aharonian

We present a detailed multi-wavelength analysis and interpretation of the evolution of an M7.6 flare on October 24, 2003. The X-ray observations of the flare taken from the RHESSI spacecraft reveal two phases of the flare evolution. The…

We compile the radio-optical-X-ray spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of 65 knots and 29 hotspots in 41 active galactic nucleus jets to examine their high energy radiation mechanisms. Their SEDs can be fitted with the single-zone leptonic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-16 Jin Zhang , Shen-shi Du , Sheng-Chu Guo , Hai-Ming Zhang , Liang Chen , En-Wei Liang , Shuang-Nan Zhang

We studied temporal changes of morphological and magnetic properties of a succession of four confined flares followed by an eruptive flare using the high-resolution New Solar Telescope (NST) operating at the Big Bear Solar Observatory…

X-ray flares have routinely been observed from the supermassive black hole, Sagittarius A$^\star$ (Sgr A$^\star$), at our Galactic center. The nature of these flares remains largely unclear, despite of many theoretical models. In this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-16 Ya-Ping Li , Feng Yuan , Qiang Yuan , Q. Daniel Wang , P. F. Chen , Joseph Neilsen , Taotao Fang , Shuo Zhang , Jason Dexter

We report on the results of our simultaneous observations of three large stellar flares with soft X-rays (SXRs) and an H$\mathrm{\alpha}$ emission line from two binary systems of RS CVn type. The energies released in the X-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-06 Hiroki Kawai , Yohko Tsuboi , Wataru B. Iwakiri , Yoshitomo Maeda , Satoru Katsuda , Ryo Sasaki , Junya Kohara , MAXI TEAM