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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

High-redshift blazars are one of the most powerful monsters in the universe and $\gamma$-ray variability carries crucial information of their relativistic jets. In this work we present results of the first systematical temporal analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Shang Li , Zi-Qing Xia , Yun-Feng Liang , Neng-Hui Liao , Yi-Zhong Fan

High-redshift blazars are the most powerful extragalactic astrophysical sources ever detected in the high-energy gamma-ray band. In this study, we present a temporal and spectral analysis of the high-redshift blazar B3 1343+451 based on 14…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-08 Fan Wu , Wen Hu , Benzhong Dai

High redshift blazars are among the most powerful objects in the Universe. Although they represent a significant fraction of the extragalactic hard X-ray sky, they are not commonly detected in gamma-rays. High redshift (z>2) objects…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-03-03 M. Orienti , F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti , D. Dallacasa , T. Venturi , J. Finke , M. Ajello

High-redshift ($z >3$) $\gamma$-ray blazars are rare, but they are crucial for our understanding of jet evolution, $\gamma$-ray production and propagation, and the growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe. A new analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-07 Hai Lei , Ying-Kang Zhang , Xiong Jiang , Sebastian Kiehlmann , Anthony C. S. Readhead , Liang Chen , Neng-Hui Liao , Tao An

High-$z$ blazars (z $\geq 2.5$) are the most powerful class of persistent $\gamma$-ray sources in the Universe. These objects possess the highest jet powers and luminosities and have black hole masses often in excess of $10^9$ solar masses.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 M. Kreter , A. Gokus , F. Krauß , M. Kadler , R. Ojha , S. Buson , J. Wilms , M. Böttcher

The high redhsift blazars powered by supermassive black holes with masses exceeding $10^9\:M_\odot$ have the highest jet power and luminosity and are important probes to test the physics of relativistic jets at the early epochs of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-01 N. Sahakyan , G. Harutyunyan , D. Israyelyan

We study a sample of 30 high-redshift blazars ($z>2.5$) by means of spectra and the radiation mechanism with Fermi Large Area Telescope $\gamma$-ray observations spanning 15 years. Three models -- the power law, power law with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Fan Wu , Benzhong Dai

We report on OVRO, WISE, Swift and Fermi-LAT observations of the high redshift blazar CGRaBS J0733+0456, from which significant flux variations in radio, infrared (IR) as well as $\gamma$-ray domains are detected. Particularly, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Neng-Hui Liao , Li-Ming Dou , Ning Jiang , Yi-Bo Wang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Ting-Gui Wang

Blazars, a subset of powerful active galactic nuclei, feature relativistic jets that shine in a broadband electromagnetic radiation, e. g. from radio to TeV emission. Here I present the results of the studies that explore gamma-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Gopal Bhatta

We observed with the NuSTAR satellite 3 blazars at z>2, detected in gamma-rays by Fermi/LAT and in the soft X-rays, but not yet observed above 10 keV. The flux and slope of their X-ray continuum, together with Fermi/LAT data allows us to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 G. Ghisellini , M. L. Perri , G. Costamante , G. Tagliaferri , T. Sbarrato , S. Campitiello , G. Madejski , F. Tavecchio , G. Ghirlanda

High-redshift blazars are valuable tools to study the early Universe. So far only a handful of $\gamma$-ray blazars have been found at redshifts above 3. $\gamma$-ray signals are detected in the direction of PMN J2219-2719 ($z=3.63$) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Shang Li , Lu-Ming Sun , Neng-Hui Liao , Yi-Zhong Fan

Blazars can be detected from very large distances due to their high luminosity. However, the detection of $\gamma$-ray emission of blazars beyond $z=3$ has only been confirmed for a small number of sources. Such observations probe the…

We study the possible detection of and properties of very high-energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission (in the energy band above 100 GeV) from high redshift sources. We report on the detection of VHE gamma-ray flux from blazars with redshifts…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-20 A. Neronov , D. V. Semikoz , A. M. Taylor , Ie. Vovk

The detection of high-redshift ($z>$3) blazars enables the study of the evolution of the most luminous relativistic jets over cosmic time. More importantly, high-redshift blazars tend to host massive black holes and can be used to constrain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-04-25 Large Area Telescope Collaboration

We report results of a multiband monitoring campaign of the flat spectrum radio quasar TXS 0536+145 at redshift 2.69. This source was detected during a very high gamma-ray activity state in 2012 March by the Large Area Telescope on board…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Orienti , F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti , J. Finke , M. Ajello , D. Dallacasa , T. Venturi

We study the quasi-simultaneous near-IR, optical, UV, and X-ray photometry of eleven gamma-ray selected blazars for which redshift estimates larger than 1.2 have been recently provided. Four of these objects turn out to be high-power…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 P. Padovani , P. Giommi , A. Rau

A broadband study of the high redshift blazar S5 0836+71 (z = 2.172) is presented. Multi-frequency light curves show multiple episodes of X-ray and $\gamma$-ray flares, while optical-UV fluxes show little variations. During the GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Vaidehi S. Paliya

We observed 5 gamma-ray loud blazars at redshift greater than 2 with the X-Ray Telescope (XRT) and the UltraViolet and Optical Telescope (UVOT) onboard the Swift satellite, and the Gamma-Ray burst Optical Near-Infrared Detector (GROND)…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 G. Ghisellini , M. Nardini , G. Tagliaferri , J. Greiner , P. Schady , A. Rau , L. Foschini , F. Tavecchio , G. Ghirlanda , T. Sbarrato

RGB J2243+203 is a blazar at an estimated redshift of greater than 0.39 that has been classified both as an intermediate-frequency-peaked BL Lac object and as a high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object. This source has been detected by VERITAS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 A. U. Abeysekara
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