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The detection of gamma rays from a small number of Narrow Line Seyfert 1 galaxies by the LAT instrument onboard Fermi seriously challenged our understanding of AGN physics. Among the most important findings associated with their discovery…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-08 E. Angelakis , L. Fuhrmann , I. Myserlis , I. Nestoras , V. Karamanavis , T. P. Krichbaum , J. A. Zensus , N. Marchili , L. Foschini , H. Ungerechts , A. Sievers

Emission from the nucleus of the closest radio galaxy, Centaurus A, is observed from the radio to the gamma ray band. We build, for the first time, its overall Spectral Energy Distribution (SED) that appears to be intriguingly similar to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Marco Chiaberge , Alessandro Capetti , Annalisa Celotti

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are now known to be strong gamma-ray emitters. After briefly describing the different classes of AGN and the basic tenets of unified schemes, I discuss the role of blazars (that is BL Lacs and flat-spectrum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Padovani

Rapid and luminous flares of non-thermal radiation observed in blazars require an efficient mechanism of energy dissipation and particle acceleration in relativistic active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets. Particle acceleration in relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-08 Krzysztof Nalewajko

We analyse 77 \textit{Fermi} sources and their potential low-energy counterparts previously proposed in the literature. These sources were classified as active galactic nuclei, mainly blazars, based on optical spectroscopy. The main goals…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Alberto Ulgiati , Paolo Padovani , Paolo Giommi , Simona Paiano , Ciro Pinto

The Fermi bubbles, two giant gamma-ray bubbles above and below the Galactic center (GC), are among the most important findings of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Because of the proximity, spatially resolved, multi-wavelength…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-01 H. -Y. K. Yang , M. Ruszkowski

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with its main instrument on-board, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), opened a new era in the study of high-energy emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). When combined with contemporaneous ground- and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-01 Filippo D'Ammando

The broadband emission observed from radio galaxies, BL Lac objects and quasars is thought to be produced by energetic electrons confined in plasma blobs which are ejected from supermassive black holes at relativistic speeds. The lower…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-02-03 Reinhard Schlickeiser , Charles D. Dermer

A tight correlation between gamma-ray and radio emission is found for a sample of BL Lacertae (BL Lac) objects detected by Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (Fermi) and the Energetic Gamma-Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET). The gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Fan Li , Xinwu Cao

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) may emit highly collimated and intense jets of relativistic electrons which upscatter ambient photons. These electrons can also scatter off the cold dark matter halo of the galaxy to produce high energy photons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Elliott D. Bloom , James D. Wells

The discovery of bright gamma-ray emission coincident with supernova remnant (SNR) W51C is reported using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. W51C is a middle-aged remnant (~10^4 yr) with intense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 Fermi LAT collaboration

In this work, a nearby luminous AGN sample is selected from HST, where only sources with both X-ray emission observed by \textit{Chandra/XMM-Newton} and radio flux detected by VLA/VLBA/VLBI/MERLIN are adopted to keep high precision. We get…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-10-23 Shuang-Liang Li

We study the correlations between the Very Long Baseline Array radio emission at 15 GHz, extended emission at 151 MHz, and optical nuclear emission at 5100 AA for a complete sample of 135 compact jets. We use the partial Kendall's tau…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-03-13 T. G. Arshakian , J. Torrealba , V. H. Chavushyan , E. Ros , M. L. Lister , I. Cruz-González , J. A. Zensus

(abridged) Relativistic jets, formed in the vicinity of central supermassive black holes in AGN, show ample evidence connecting them to physical conditions in the accretion disc and broad-line region. The jets are responsible for a large…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-10-15 Andrei Lobanov

We present the results of seven years of multicolour photometric monitoring of a sample of 31 $\gamma$-ray bright blazars using the RINGO3 polarimeter on the Liverpool Telescope from 2013--2020. We explore the relationships between…

Narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) usually do not host relativistic jets and the detection of their $\gamma$-ray emissions is rarely reported. Evidences for strong relativistic beaming effect have been found in all $\gamma$-ray NLS1s to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-06 Neng-Hui Liao , Yun-Feng Liang , Shan-Shan Weng , Marco Berton , Min-Feng Gu , Yi-Zhong Fan

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

We study the jet physics of the BL Lac object PKS 2233-148 making use of synergy of observational data sets in the radio and gamma-ray energy domains. The four-epoch multi-frequency (4-43 GHz) VLBA observations focused on the parsec-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 A. B. Pushkarev , M. S. Butuzova , Y. Y. Kovalev , T. Hovatta

This is the first paper of a series exploring the multi-frequency properties of a sample of eleven nearby low excitation radio galaxies (LERGs) in the southern sky. We are conducting an extensive study of different galaxy components (stars,…

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
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