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High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-04 A. A. Abdo

The majority of the activity around nearby (z ~ 0) supermassive black holes is found in low-luminosity active galactic nuclei (LLAGN), the most of them being classified as low ionization nuclear emission regions. Although these sources are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-22 Raniere de Menezes , Rodrigo Nemmen , Justin D. Finke , Ivan Almeida , Bindu Rani

We study the effect of non-relativistic, thermal matter in the jets of active galaxies (AGN) on the low-frequency non-thermal emission and the variability thereof. In matter-dominated jets, sizable quantities of gas should exist, in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 M. Siewert , M. Pohl , R. Schlickeiser

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

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are remarkable astronomical sources emitting over the whole electromagnetic spectrum, with different bands providing unique windows on distinct sub-structures and their related physics. AGN come in a large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-27 Paolo Padovani

We present a detailed statistical analysis of the correlation between radio and gamma-ray emission of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) detected by Fermi during its first year of operation, with the largest datasets ever used for this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Allafort , E. Angelakis , M. Axelsson , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , A. Bouvier , J. Bregeon , A. Brez , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , A. Cannon , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , S. Cutini , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , R. Dubois , D. Dumora , L. Escande , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , P. Fortin , M. Frailis , L. Fuhrmann , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , N. Giglietto , P. Giommi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , P. Grandi , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , E. Hays , S. E. Healey , G. J , A. S. Johnson , T. Kamae , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , J. Kn , M. Kuss , J. Lande , S. -H. Lee , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , A. Makeev , W. Max-Moerbeck , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , T. Mizuno , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Naumann-Godo , S. Nishino , P. L. Nolan , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , A. Okumura , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , M. Ozaki , D. Paneque , V. Pavlidou , V. Pelassa , M. Pepe , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pierbattista , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , S. Rain , M. Razzano , A. Readhead , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , J. L. Richards , R. W. Romani , H. F. -W. Sadrozinski , J. D. Scargle , C. Sgr , E. J. Siskind , P. D. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , M. S. Strickman , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , G. B. Taylor , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , A. Tramacere , E. Troja , J. Vandenbroucke , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , P. Wang , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , Z. Yang , M. Ziegler

Relativistic jets launched from stellar-mass compact objects embedded in the accretion disk of an active galactic nucleus (AGN) can produce nonthermal emission upon successfully breaking out of the disk. In this paper, we present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-26 Ken Chen , Zi-Gao Dai

High energy photon radiations of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are dominated by their jet radiations. We examine wether the synchrotron radiations of jets in BL Lacs, flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-04 Xiao-Li Huang , En-Wei Liang

We study the relation between the VLBA (Very Long Baseline Array) radio emission at 15 GHz and the optical nuclear emission at 5100 A for a sample of 233 core-dominated AGN with relativistic jets. For 181 quasars, there is a significant…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-04-13 Janet Torrealba , Tigran G. Arshakian , Vahram Chavushyan , Irene Cruz-Gonzalez

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

This article focuses on certain variability and emission characteristics of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), especially their radio-loud subset consisting of quasars, BL Lacs and $\gamma$-ray detected narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies, all of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-28 Gopal-Krishna , Silke Britzen , Paul Wiita

We study the possibility that the $\gamma$-ray loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) are the sources of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECR), through the correlation analysis of their locations and the arrival directions of UHECR. We use the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-12-27 Jihyun Kim , Hang Bae Kim

The quest to uncover periodic patterns within the $\gamma$-ray emissions of jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) has recently emerged as a focal point in astrophysics. One of the primary challenges has been the necessity for prolonged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-23 P. Peñil , A. Domínguez , S. Buson , M. Ajello , S. Adhikari , A. Rico

We have investigated the differences in apparent opening angles between the parsec-scale jets of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) during its first 24 months of operations and those of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 A. B. Pushkarev , M. L. Lister , Y. Y. Kovalev , T. Savolainen

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

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are characterized by emission of radiation over more than 10 orders of magnitude in frequency. Therefore, the execution of extensive surveys of the sky, with different types of detectors, is providing the…

Most extragalactic jets in radio-loud Active Galactic Nuclei are bright and variable gamma-ray sources, which are continuously monitored with Fermi/LAT. We present the gamma-ray properties of the MOJAVE and TANAMI AGN samples of radio-loud…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-15 M. Boeck , M. Kadler , G. Tosti , T. H. Burnett , C. Mueller , R. Ojha , J. Wilms

We are constructing the broadband SED catalog of the MOJAVE sample from the radio to the gamma-ray band using MOJAVE, Swift UVOT/XRT/BAT, and Fermi/LAT data, in order to understand the emission mechanism of extragalactic outflows and to…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-06-25 C. S. Chang , E. Ros , M. Kadler , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , E. Angelakis , L. Fuhrmann , I. Nestoras , H. Ungerechts

We believe that the radiation we receive from Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and radio loud Active Galacti Nuclei (AGNs) originates from the transformation of bulk relativistic motion into random energy. Mechanisms to produce, collimate and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Ghisellini

BL Lacs are one subclass of blazars with highly energetic $\gamma$-ray emission, which is strongly boosted by a relativistic beaming effect. The latest catalogue of the 10 years of {\it Fermi}/LAT data Abdollahi et al. (2020) and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-18 X. H. Ye , X. T. Zeng , W. X. Yang , H. S. Huang , Y. H. Xuan , J. W. Huang , Z. Zhang , Z. Y. Pei , J. H. Yang , J. H. Fan