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TeV emission can be a common characteristic of low power blazars. This is in line with the sequence of blazars relating the observed bolometric luminosity with their overall spectral energy distribution. Detecting new TeV blazars, possibly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Ghisellini

We use hydrodynamical/N-body simulations to interpret the newly discovered Bullet-cluster-like merging cluster, ZwCl 0008.8+5215 (ZwCl 0008 hereafter), where a dramatic collision is apparent from multi-wavelength observations. We have been…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 Sandor M. Molnar , Tom Broadhurst

Extreme high-energy peaked BL Lac objects (EHBLs) are a new emerging class of blazars. The typical two-hump structured spectral energy distribution (SED) is shifted to higher energies with respect to other more established classes of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-27 L. Foffano , J. Becerra Gonzalez , M. Cerruti , V. Fallah Ramazani , E. Prandini , F. Tavecchio , K. Asano , F. D'Ammando

We present a machine learning (ML) based method for automated detection of Gamma-Ray Burst (GRB) candidate events in the range 60 keV - 250 keV from the AstroSat Cadmium Zinc Telluride Imager data. We use density-based spatial clustering to…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2021-05-18 Sheelu Abraham , Nikhil Mukund , Ajay Vibhute , Vidushi Sharma , Shabnam Iyyani , Dipankar Bhattacharya , A. R. Rao , Santosh Vadawale , Varun Bhalerao

Almost the totality of the bright foreground sources in the WMAP CMB maps are blazars, a class of sources that show usually also X-ray emission. However, 23 objects in a flux-limited sample of 140 blazars of the WMAP catalog (first year)…

Abrupt and rapid high-amplitude changes in a dynamical system's states known as extreme event appear in many processes occurring in nature, such as drastic climate patterns, rogue waves, or avalanches. These events often entail catastrophic…

Fluid Dynamics · Physics 2023-06-29 Urszula Golyska , Nguyen Anh Khoa Doan

The blazar 3C 279 is well known for its rapid and large-amplitude variability. On 20 December 2013, the source exhibited an orphan {\gamma}-ray flare characterized by a flux-doubling timescale of a few hours, a very hard spectrum, a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-04 Sébastien Le Bihan , Anton Dmytriiev , Andreas Zech

It is known that the blazar jet emissions are dominated by non-thermal radiation while the accretion disk jets are normally dominated by thermal emission. In this work, our aim is to study the connection between the two types of emission by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Hubing Xiao , Junhui Fan , Zhihao Ouyang , Liangjun Hu , Guohai Chen , Liping Fu , Shaohua Zhang

Variable \gama-ray emission from blazars, one of the most powerful classes of astronomical sources featuring relativistic jets, is a widely discussed topic. In this work, we present the results of a variability study of a sample of 20…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Jaroslaw Duda , Gopal Bhatta

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has detected more than 5000 gamma-ray sources in its first 8 years of operation. More than 3000 of them are blazars. About 60 per cent of the Fermi-LAT blazars are classified as BL Lacertae objects (BL…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-22 Miloš Kovačević , Graziano Chiaro , Sara Cutini , Gino Tosti

Changing-look active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are a special class of AGNs that change their spectral type from type 1 to type 2 or vice versa. In recent years, a number of changing-look blazars (CLBs) were also reported, which transition…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-04 Shi-Ju Kang , Bing Lyu , Qingwen Wu , Yong-Gang Zheng , Junhui Fan

Many luminous blazars which are associated with quasar-type active galactic nuclei display broad-band spectra characterized by a large luminosity ratio of their high-energy (gamma-ray) and low-energy (synchrotron) spectral components. This…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-02 Marek Sikora , Lukasz Stawarz , Rafal Moderski , Krzysztof Nalewajko , Greg Madejski

In this work we simulate the $50-200$ MHz radio sky that is constrained in the field of view ($5^{\circ}$ radius) of the 21 Centimeter Array (21CMA), by carrying out Monte-Carlo simulations to model redshifted cosmological reionization…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-19 Jingying Wang , Haiguang Xu , Junhua Gu , Tao An , Haijuan Cui , Jianxun Li , Zhongli Zhang , Qian Zheng , Xiang-Ping Wu

Blazars are highly variable sources over timescales that can be as low as minutes. This is the case of the High Energy Peaked BL Lac (HBL) objects showing strong variability in X-rays, which highly correlate with that of the TeV emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 I. Donnarumma , A. Tramacere , S. Turriziani , L. Costamante , R. Campana , A. De Rosa , E. Bozzo

Detecting diffuse radio emission, such as from halos, in galaxy clusters is crucial for understanding large-scale structure formation in the universe. Traditional methods, which rely on X-ray and Sunyaev-Zeldovich (SZ) cluster…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-06-04 Ashutosh K. Mishra , Emma Tolley , Shreyam Parth Krishna , Jean-Paul Kneib

Identification of anomalous light curves within time-domain surveys is often challenging. In addition, with the growing number of wide-field surveys and the volume of data produced exceeding astronomers ability for manual evaluation,…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-09-30 Sara Webb , Michelle Lochner , Daniel Muthukrishna , Jeff Cooke , Chris Flynn , Ashish Mahabal , Simon Goode , Igor Andreoni , Tyler Pritchard , Timothy M. C. Abbott

Unsupervised clustering is one of the most fundamental challenges in machine learning. A popular hypothesis is that data are generated from a union of low-dimensional nonlinear manifolds; thus an approach to clustering is identifying and…

Machine Learning · Computer Science 2017-12-27 Dejiao Zhang , Yifan Sun , Brian Eriksson , Laura Balzano

Extremely high-peaked BL Lac objects (or extreme blazars) are unique extragalactic laboratories where particle acceleration processes are pushed at their physical limits. In these blazars, synchrotron emission peaking above keV energies is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-08 L. Foffano , C. Arcaro , A. Arbet-Engels , F. D'Ammando , P. Da Vela , J. Jormanainen , D. Linder , S. Menon , E. Prandini , S. Ventura , E. Visentin

Blazar spectra are one of the most important windows into the physical processes occurring along jets. The spectrum, composed from the different emitting regions along the jet, allows us to constrain the physical conditions in the jet. I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 William J. Potter , Garret Cotter

Blazars are powerful, variable emitters from radio to gamma-ray wavelengths. Even though the general picture of synchrotron emission at low energies and inverse Compton at the high energy end is well established, many important aspects of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 W. Max-Moerbeck , J. L. Richards , V. Pavlidou , T. J. Pearson , A. C. S. Readhead , T. Hovatta , O. G. King , R. Reeves