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The discovery by the Large Area Telescope on board Fermi of variable gamma-ray emission from radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies revealed the presence of a possible third class of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) with relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , J. Finke , J. Larsson , M. Giroletti , C. M. Raiteri

The discovery in 2008 of high-energy gamma-rays from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies (NLS1s) made it clear that there were active galactic nuclei (AGN) other than blazars and radio galaxies that can eject powerful relativistic jets. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-01 Luigi Foschini

The recent discovery by Fermi/LAT of high-energy (E>100 MeV) gamma rays from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies (NLS1s) made evident the existence of a third class of gamma-ray emitting Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), after blazars and radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 Luigi Foschini

Before the launch of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope satellite only two classes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) were known to generate relativistic jets and thus to emit up to the $\gamma$-ray energy range: blazars and radio galaxies,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-12 Filippo D'Ammando

The detection of significant $\gamma$-ray emission from radio-loud narrow line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1s) galaxies enables us to study jets in environments different than those in blazars. However, due to the small number of known $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 Vaidehi S. Paliya , M. Ajello , S. Rakshit , A. Mandal , C. S. Stalin , A. Kaur , D. Hartmann

Before the launch of the Fermi satellite only two classes of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) were known to generate relativistic jets and thus to emit up to the gamma-ray energy range: blazars and radio galaxies, both hosted in giant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , J. Finke , M. Giroletti , J. Larsson

The discovery of gamma-ray emission from 5 radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies revealed the presence of a possible emerging third class of AGNs with relativistic jets, in addition to blazars and radio galaxies. The existence of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , J. Finke , J. Larsson , M. Giroletti

In 2008, the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope has revealed - for the first time - high-energy (E > 100 MeV) gamma rays from a few Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies (NLS1s). Later, in 2009 and 2010, two multifrequency campaigns on one of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-10-22 Luigi Foschini

Before the launch of the Fermi satellite only two classes of AGNs were known to produce relativistic jets and thus emit up to the gamma-ray energy range: blazars and radio galaxies, both hosted in giant elliptical galaxies. The first four…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , J. Finke , J. Larsson , M. Giroletti

Before the launch of the Fermi satellite only two classes of AGN were known to generate relativistic jets and thus emit up to the gamma-ray energy range: blazars and radio galaxies, both hosted in giant elliptical galaxies. The first two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 F. D'Ammando , G. Tosti , M. Orienti , J. Finke

The recent detection of gamma-ray emission from four radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies suggests that the engine driving the AGN activity of these objects share some similarities with that of blazars, namely the presence of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Calderone , L. Foschini , G. Ghisellini , M. Colpi , L. Maraschi , F. Tavecchio , R. Decarli , G. Tagliaferri

High-energy {\gamma}-rays, which are produced by powerful relativistic jets, are usually associated with blazars and radio galaxies. In the current active galactic nuclei (AGN) paradigm, such jets are almost exclusively launched from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-24 Emilia Järvelä , Anne Lähteenmäki , Jonathan León-Tavares

We present the results of a detailed multi-wavelength study of a sample of sixteen narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies known in $\gamma$-rays so far. This includes a focused X-ray spectral analysis, to compare them with a more general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Vaidehi S. Paliya , M. L. Parker , J. Jiang , A. C. Fabian , L. Brenneman , M. Ajello , D. Hartmann

The discovery of high-energy (E>100 MeV) gamma rays from Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 Galaxies (gamma-NLS1s) has confirmed the presence of powerful relativistic jets in this class of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Although the jet emission is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-04-23 Luigi Foschini

The revision of the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog of gamma-ray point sources (rev4FGL) revealed that the gamma-ray sky is populated by emerging populations of jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) other than blazars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-27 Luigi Foschini

Non-blazar Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have emerged as a new gamma-ray emitting source class on the extragalactic sky and started to deepen our understanding of the physical processes and the nature of AGN in general. The detection of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-10 Frank M. Rieger

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) are active galactic nuclei (AGN) recently identified as a new class of $\gamma$-ray sources. The high energy emission is explained by the presence of a relativistic jet observed at small angles, just…

The discovery of $\gamma$-ray emission from some radio-loud narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (RLNLS1s) indicated the presence of a relativistic beamed jet in these objects. This immediately opened a new question about their parent population:…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-05-23 M Berton

The detection by Fermi-LAT of gamma-ray emission from radio-loud Narrow-Line Seyfert 1s (NLS1s) indicates that relativistic jets do not form only in blazars and radio galaxies, but also in other AGN populations. Despite a spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 M. Orienti , F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti

Narrow-Line Seyfert 1 (NLS1) class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is generally radio-quiet, but a small percent of them are radio-loud. The recent discovery by Fermi/LAT of high-energy gamma-ray emission from 4 NLS1s proved the existence…

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