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Active galactic nuclei (AGN) with relativistic jets are the most powerful persistent astrophysical sources of electromagnetic radiation in the Universe. Blazars are the most extreme subclass of AGN with jets directed along the line of sight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Foteini Oikonomou

The emission of very-high-energy photons (VHE, E$>$100 GeV) in active galactic nuclei (AGN) is closely connected with the production of ultra-relativistic particles. Among AGN, the subclass of extreme BL Lacertae are of particular interest…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-30 M. Nievas Rosillo , G. Chiaro , A. Dominguez , G. La Mura

According to the second Fermi LAT Catalog (2FGL), about one third of the gamma-ray sources listed have no assigned counterparts at lower energies. Many statistical methods have been developed to find proper counterparts for these sources.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-12 M. Nori , M. Giroletti , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , G. Tosti , S. Funk

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected several hundred high-energy neutrinos from cosmic sources. Despite numerous studies searching for their origin, it is still not known which sources emit them. A few likely individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Pouya M. Kouch , Talvikki Hovatta , Elina Lindfors , Ioannis Liodakis , Karri I. I. Koljonen , Alessandro Paggi

We present deep radio images at 1.4 GHz of a large and complete sample of BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) selected from the Deep X-ray Radio Blazar Survey (DXRBS). We have observed 24 northern sources with the Very Large Array (VLA) in both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hermine Landt , Hayley E. Bignall

X-ray selected BL Lac objects dominate the population of extragalactic sources detected in the very high energy (VHE; photon energies >100GeV) gamma-ray regime with ground-based Cherenkov Telescopes. These are not the only extragalactic VHE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 L. Stawarz

The radio properties of blazars detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been observed contemporaneously by the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). In total, 232 sources were observed with…

We present a list of 24 new blazar candidates selected in a search for possible counterparts of spatial clusters of gamma-ray photons in the recent 9Y-MST catalogue, at energies higher than 10 GeV and at Galactic latitudes higher than 20…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-24 R. Campana , E. Massaro

Results are presented of extended and refined optical identification of 181 radio/X-ray sources in the RASS-Green Bank (RGB) catalog which have been spectroscopically observed in the Sloan digital sky survey (SDSS) DR5. For 72 sources, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-09-24 Deliang Wang , Jianguo Wang , Xiaobo Dong

A wide range of phenomena, from explosive transients to active galactic nuclei, exhibit variability at radio wavelengths on timescales of a few years. Characterizing the rate and scale of variability in the radio sky can provide keen…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-05-21 Yjan A. Gordon , Peter S. Ferguson , Michael N. Martinez , Eric J. Hooper

Blazars are a small fraction of all extragalactic sources but, unlike other objects, they are strong emitters across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Recent data in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum have become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-24 D. Gasparrini , E. Cavazzuti , P. Giommi , C. Pittori , S. Colafrancesco , Fermi-LAT collaboration

We present the results of a cluster search in the Fermi-LAT Pass 8 gamma-ray sky by means of the Minimum Spanning Tree algorithm, at energies higher than 10 GeV and at Galactic latitudes higher than 25 degrees. The selected clusters have a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-07 R. Campana , E. Massaro , E. Bernieri

We have recently proposed a new scenario where blazars are classified as flat-spectrum radio quasars or BL Lacs according to the prescriptions of unified schemes, and to a varying combination of Doppler boosted radiation from the jet,…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-07-11 Paolo Giommi , Paolo Padovani

Past studies of compact active galactic nuclei (AGNs), the dominant population at high radio frequencies, selected them using flat spectral index criteria. This biases the sample due to the steepening of AGN spectra at high radio…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-04 R. Chhetri , A. Kimball , R. D. Ekers , E. K. Mahony , E. M. Sadler , T. Jarrett

The emission of very-high-energy photons (VHE, E>100 GeV$) in blazars is closely connected to the production of ultra-relativistic particles and the role of these gamma-ray sources as cosmic particle accelerators. This work focuses on a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-04 M. Nievas Rosillo , A. Domínguez , G. Chiaro , G. La Mura , A. Brill , V. S. Paliya

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

Blazars, including BL Lacs and FSRQs, are the most luminous extragalactic {\gamma}-ray sources. They account for about 56% of the sources listed in the recent Fermi-LAT catalog (4FGL-DR4). The optical and UV spectra of BL Lacs are nearly…

Blazars are active galactic nuclei whose ultra-relativistic jets are coaligned with the observer direction. They emit throughout the whole e.m. spectrum, from radio waves to VHE gamma rays. Not all blazars are discovered. In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-14 L. Fronte , B. Mazzon , F. Metruccio , N. Munaretto , M. Doro , P. Giommi , I. Viale , U. Barres de Almeida

The latest source catalog of the Fermi-LAT telescope contains more than 7000 $\gamma$-ray sources at GeV energies, with the two dominant source classes thought to be blazars and rotation-powered pulsars. Our target is the identification of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-09 Martin G. F. Mayer , Werner Becker

A sample of 312 low-frequency peaked BL Lacertae objects (LBLs) and 694 flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) with the parameters both redshift and $\gamma$-ray photon spectral index ($\Gamma _\gamma$) is compiled from the active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-31 S. Liang , W. G. Yang , Y. G. Zheng , S. J. Kang