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In September 2017, the IceCube Neutrino Observatory recorded a very-high-energy neutrino in directional coincidence with a blazar in an unusually bright gamma-ray state, TXS0506+056. Blazars are prominent photon sources in the universe…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-05-14 Shan Gao , Anatoli Fedynitch , Walter Winter , Martin Pohl

Blazars are a highly-variable, radio-loud subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN). In order to better understand such objects we must be able to easily identify candidate blazars from the growing population of unidentified sources. Working…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Philip S. Cowperthwaite , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , A. Paggi , G. Tosti , Howard A. Smith

We review and discuss recent results on the search for correlations between astrophysical neutrinos and gamma-ray-detected sources, with many extra-galactic studies reporting potential associations with different types of blazars. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-14 Paolo Giommi , Paolo Padovani

X-ray observations are essential for understanding the multimessenger emission mechanisms of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Blazars, a subset of AGN whose X-ray emission predominantly originates from relativistic jets, have been proposed as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-18 Jose Maria Sanchez Zaballa , Sara Buson , Stefano Marchesi , Francesco Tombesi , Thomas Dauser , Joern Wilms , Alessandra Azzollini

Blazars exhibit flux and spectral variations of largest amplitude at the highest frequencies. Therefore, monitoring their variability at X- and gamma-rays is the most effective tool to peer into the mighty powerhouse of these sources. High…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Elena Pian

The spectral energy distribution and variability of several blazars (Mkn 501, 1 ES 2344+51.4, PKS 2155-30.4, 1 ES 1218+30.4, 3C 454.3) along the blazar sequence is investigated using a selfconsistent and timedependent lepto-hadronic hybrid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-12 Matthias Weidinger , Felix Spanier

Eight years after the first detection of high-energy astrophysical neutrinos by IceCube we are still almost clueless as regards to their origin, although the case for blazars being neutrino sources is getting stronger. After the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 P. Padovani , P. Giommi , R. Falomo , F. Oikonomou , M. Petropoulou , T. Glauch , E. Resconi , A. Treves , S. Paiano

The blazars are one of the leading candidate sources of high-energy neutrinos. Recently, two blazars have been found to be temporally and spatially correlated with some IceCube high-energy neutrino events. The two blazars, GB6 J2113+1121…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-08 Xiong Jiang , Neng-Hui Liao , Xue Rui , Yi-Zhong Fan , Da-Ming Wei

We present the first deep VLA radio images of flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) with multiwavelength emission properties similar to those of BL Lacs with synchrotron X-rays. Our observations of twenty-five of these sources show that their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hermine Landt , Eric S. Perlman , Paolo Padovani

Pinpointing the neutrino sources is crucial to unveil the mystery of high-energy cosmic rays. The search for neutrino-source candidates from coincident neutrino-photon signatures and electromagnetic objects with peculiar flaring behaviors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-30 Yu-Ling Chang , Bruno Arsioli , Wenlian Li , Donglian Xu , Liang Chen

The IceCube Neutrino Observatory has detected several hundred high-energy neutrinos from cosmic sources. Despite numerous studies searching for their origin, it is still not known which sources emit them. A few likely individual…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-29 Pouya M. Kouch , Talvikki Hovatta , Elina Lindfors , Ioannis Liodakis , Karri I. I. Koljonen , Alessandro Paggi

Blazars are active galactic nuclei with their relativistic jets pointing toward the observer, with two major sub-classes, the flat spectrum radio quasars and BL Lac objects. We present multi-wavelength photometric and spectroscopic…

Blazars are characterized by relativistic jets that are closely aligned with our line of sight. This results in relativistic beaming, making blazars among the most luminous extragalactic sources across the electromagnetic spectrum, from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-14 Stamatios Ilias Stathopoulos , Maria Petropoulou

Blazars are the established sources of an intense and variable non-thermal radiation extending from radio wavelengths up to HE and VHE gamma-rays. Understanding the spectral evolution of blazars in selected frequency ranges, as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-24 Alicja Wierzcholska , Michał Ostrowski , Łukasz Stawarz , Stefan Wagner , Marcus Hauser

Being dominated by non-thermal (synchrotron and inverse Compton) emission from a relativistic jet, blazars offer important clues to the structure and radiative processes in extragalactic jets. Crucial information is provided by blazars'…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Rita M. Sambruna

We present statistical analyses of a large homogenous data sample of Fermi-detected blazars thoroughly studied in order to reassess the relationship between flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and subclasses of BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 E. U. Iyida , F. C. Odo , A. E. Chukwude , A. A. Ubachukwu

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

In the past years, evidence has started piling up that some high-energy cosmic neutrinos can be associated with blazars in flaring states. On February 26, 2022, a new blazar-neutrino coincidence has been reported: the track-like neutrino…

We present two ways of modeling the spectral energy distribution of blazars in the hadronic context and discuss the predictions of each "hadronic variant" on the spectral shape, the multi-wavelength variability, the cosmic-ray flux, and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-25 Maria Petropoulou , Stavros Dimitrakoudis , Paolo Padovani , Elisa Resconi , Paolo Giommi , Apostolos Mastichiadis

We consider implications of high-energy neutrino emission from blazar flares, including the recent event IceCube-170922A and the 2014-2015 neutrino flare that could originate from TXS 0506+056. First, we discuss their contribution to the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-11 Kohta Murase , Foteini Oikonomou , Maria Petropoulou