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One of the main scenarios to account for the multi-wavelength flux variability observed in relativistic jets of AGNs is based on diffusive shock acceleration of a population of relativistic electrons on internal shocks of various origins.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-05-04 Gaëtan Fichet de Clairfontaine , Zakaria Meliani , Andreas Zech

Context.Blazars, a sub-category of Active Galactic Nuclei, are characterized by their non-thermal variable emission. This emission extends over the whole electromagnetic spectrum and is a consequence of particle acceleration inside their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Stella S. Boula , Apostolos Mastichiadis

We have developed an economical, effective numerical scheme for cosmic-ray transport suitable for treatment of electrons up to a few hundreds of GeV in multidimensional simulations of radio galaxies. The method follows the electron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 T. W. Jones , I. L. Tregillis , Dongsu Ryu

Gigahertz-Peaked spectrum (GPS) sources are compact active galactic nuclei, presumably young precursors of bright radio sources. The study of GPS radio properties provides information about the features of synchrotron radiation in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Yu. Sotnikova , T. Mufakharov , E. Majorova , M. Mingaliev , R. Udovitskiy , N. Bursov , T. Semenova

The work in this paper aims at determining the evolution and possible co-evolution of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) and their cores via their radio luminosity functions (i.e., total and core RLF respectively). Using a large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Zunli Yuan , Jiancheng Wang

Fast Radio Bursts (FRBs) are a promising tool for studying the low-density universe as their dispersion measures (DM) are extremely sensitive probes of electron column density. Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) inject energy into the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-03-14 Adam J. Batten , Alan R. Duffy , Chris Flynn , Vivek Gupta , Emma Ryan-Weber , Nastasha Wijers

We point out that the remarkable linearity of the ultra-steep radio spectra of high redshift radio galaxies reflects a previously reported general trend for powerful radio galaxies, according to which the spectral curvature is lesser for…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Gopal-Krishna , Mukul Mhaskey , A. Mangalam

Building the radio sky template are crucial for detecting the 21 cm emission line signal from the Epoch of Reionization (EoR), as well as for other cosmological research endeavors. Utilizing data from the LOFAR Two-meter Sky Survey (LoTSS)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-11-07 Jinyang Lin , Zhenghao Zhu , Renyi Ma , Anna Bonaldi , Huanyuan Shan

Radio relic sources in galaxy clusters are often described as the remnants of powerful radio galaxies. Here we develop a model for the evolution of such relics after the jets cease to supply energy to the lobes. This includes the treatment…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Christian R. Kaiser , Garret Cotter

Radiation from many astrophysical sources, e.g. gamma-ray bursts and active galactic nuclei, is believed to arise from relativistically shocked collisionless plasmas. Such sources often exhibit highly transient spectra evolving rapidly,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Jacob Trier Frederiksen , Troels Haugboelle , Mikhail V. Medvedev , Aake Nordlund

We describe a novel adaptive ray tracing scheme to solve the equation of radiative transfer around point sources in hydrodynamical simulations. The angular resolution adapts to the local hydrodynamical resolution and hence is of use for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Tom Abel , Benjamin D. Wandelt

As radio polarised emission from astrophysical objects traverse through foreground magnetised plasma, the physical conditions along the lines of sight are encrypted in the form of Rotation Measure (RM). We performed broadband…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-10-10 Yik Ki Ma , Sui Ann Mao , Aritra Basu , Carl Heiles , Jennifer West

X-ray spectra of active galactic nuclei (AGN) consist of several different emission and absorption components, which are often fitted manually with models chosen on a case-by-case basis. However, it becomes very hard for a survey with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 Lingsong Ge , Stéphane Paltani , Dominique Eckert

We describe a numerical model constructed for the study of the emission of radiation from relativistic plasma under conditions characteristic, e.g., to gamma-ray bursts (GRB's) and active galactic nuclei (AGN's). The model solves self…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Asaf Pe'er , Eli Waxman

The energy coupling efficiency of active galactic nucleus (AGN) outbursts is known to {vary} significantly with factors including the jet kinetic power, duration of the outburst, and properties of the host galaxy group or cluster. As such,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-01-08 Benjamin Quici , Ross J. Turner , Nicholas Seymour , Natasha Hurley-Walker

We studied the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) radio emission from a compilation of hard X-ray selected samples, all observed in the 1.4 GHz band. A total of more than 1600 AGN with 2-10 keV de-absorbed luminosities higher than 10^42 erg/s…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 F. La Franca , G. Melini , F. Fiore

We present a multi-wavelength study into the nature of faint radio sources in a deep radio image with the Giant Meterwave Radio Telescope at 612\,MHz covering 1.2 deg$^2$ of the ELAIS N1 region. We detect 2800 sources above…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-04-12 E. F. Ocran , A. R. Taylor , M. Vaccari , D. A. Green

We use the integrated polarized radio emission at 1.4 GHz ($\Pi_{\rm 1.4\,GHz}$) from a large sample of AGN (796 sources at redshifts $z<0.7$) to study the large-scale magnetic field properties of radio galaxies in relation to the host…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-17 Shane P. O'Sullivan , B. M. Gaensler , M. A. Lara-López , S. van Velzen , J. K. Banfield , J. S. Farnes

We present results from simulations of the extragalactic polarized sky at 1.4 GHz. As the basis for our polarization models, we use a semi-empirical simulation of the extragalactic total intensity (Stokes I) continuum sky developed at the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-02-13 S. P. O'Sullivan , J. M. Stil , A. R. Taylor , R. Ricci , J. K. Grant , K. Shorten

The two components of radio emission, above and below 86 GHz respectively, from the Galactic center source-Sgr A* can be naturally explained by the hybrid of thermal and nonthermal electrons in hot accretion flows (e.g., radiatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Hu Liu , Qingwen Wu