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Blazars are an extreme subclass of active galactic nuclei. Their rapid variability, luminous brightness, superluminal motion, and high and variable polarization are probably due to a beaming effect. However, this beaming factor (or Doppler…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-21 J. H. Fan , J. H. Yang , H. B. Xiao , C. Lin , D. Constantin , G. Y. Luo , Z. Y. Pei , J. M. Hao , Y. W. Mao

We investigate the prospects for discovering blazars at very high-redshifts (z>3-6) with the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope (Fermi), employing a model for the evolving gamma-ray luminosity function (GLF) of the blazar population. Our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Susumu Inoue , Tomonori Totani , Masakazu A. R. Kobayashi , Jun Kataoka , Rie Sato

BL Lac objects are an extreme type of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that belong to the largest population of $\gamma$-ray sources: blazars. This class of AGNs shows a double-bumped spectral energy distribution that is commonly described in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 E. J. Marchesini , A. Paggi , F. Massaro , N. Masetti , R. D'Abrusco , I. Andruchow , R. de Menezes

We examine the constraints on the luminosity-dependent density evolution model for the evolution of blazars given the observed spectrum of the diffuse gamma-ray background (DGRB), blazar source-count distribution, and the blazar spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-03-17 Kevork N. Abazajian , Steve Blanchet , J. Patrick Harding

Millisecond pulsars (MSPs) have been established as a class of high-energy ($\geq$0.1 GeV) emitters with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the \emph{Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope}. Most MSP gamma-ray light curves display sharp peaks…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-09-19 T. J. Johnson

Blazars host the most powerful persistent relativistic conical jet -- a highly collimated anisotropic flow of material/plasma. Motivated by this, we explore the blazar's broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) in an anisotropic flow of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-14 Nagendra Kumar , Pankaj Kushwaha

The exact location of the gamma-ray emitting region in blazars is still controversial. In order to attack this problem we present first results of a cross-correlation analysis between radio (11 cm to 0.8 mm wavelength, F-GAMMA program) and…

Extreme high-synchrotron peaked blazars (EHSPs) are rare high-energy sources characterised by synchrotron peaks beyond 10$^{17}$ Hz in their spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Their extreme properties challenge conventional blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 M. Láinez , M. Nievas-Rosillo , A. Domínguez , J. L. Contreras , J. Becerra González , A. Dinesh , V. S. Paliya

{\it Fermi}-LAT has detected pulsed gamma-ray emissions with high confidences from more than 40 millisecond pulsars (MSPs). Here we study the phase-averaged gamma-ray properties of MSPs by using revised version of a self-consistent outer…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Z. J. Jiang , S. B. Chen , X. Li , L. Zhang

The $\gamma$-ray production mechanism and its localization in blazars are still a matter of debate. The main goal of this paper is to constrain the location of the high-energy emission in the blazar TXS 2013+370 and to study the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 E. Traianou , T. P. Krichbaum , B. Boccardi , R. Angioni , B. Rani , J. Liu , E. Ros , U. Bach , K. V. Sokolovsky , S. Kiehlmann , M. Gurwell , J. A. Zensus

We report on the variations of the physical parameters of the jet observed in the blazar Mrk 421, and discuss the origin of X-ray flares in the jet, based on the analysis of the several spectral energy distributions (SEDs). The SEDs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Yurika Yamada , Makoto Uemura , Ryosuke Itoh , Yasushi Fukazawa , Masanori Ohno , Fumiya Imazato

We compute the contribution of blazars (Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars and BL-Lacs) to the Fermi-LAT Extragalactic gamma-ray Background, assuming a gamma-ray luminosity function proportional to the luminosity function of radio galaxies and the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-11-01 Massimo Cavadini , Ruben Salvaterra , Francesco Haardt

PKS 1424+240 is a distant very high energy gamma-ray BL Lac object with redshift $z=0.601$. It was found that pure synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) process normally need extreme input parameters (e.g., very low magnetic field intensity and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-15 Shiju Kang , Yong-Gang Zheng , Qingwen Wu , Liang Chen

We present simultaneous Planck, Swift, Fermi, and ground-based data for 105 blazars belonging to three samples with flux limits in the soft X-ray, hard X-ray, and gamma-ray bands. Our unique data set has allowed us to demonstrate that the…

The strong variability of blazars can be characterized by power spectral densities (PSDs) and Fourier frequency-dependent time lags. In previous work, we created a new theoretical formalism for describing the PSDs and time lags produced via…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-19 Justin D. Finke , Peter A. Becker

High-redshift blazars are the most powerful extragalactic astrophysical sources ever detected in the high-energy gamma-ray band. In this study, we present a temporal and spectral analysis of the high-redshift blazar B3 1343+451 based on 14…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-08 Fan Wu , Wen Hu , Benzhong Dai

Searching for low energy counterparts of gamma-ray sources is one of the major challenges in modern gamma-ray astronomy. In the third Fermi source catalog about 30 % of detected sources are unidentified/unassociated Gamma-ray Sources…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-26 Peña-Herazo , H. A. , Marchesini , E. J. , Álvarez Crespo , N. , Ricci , F. , Massaro , F. , Chavushyan , V. , Landoni , M. , Strader , J. , Chomiuk , L. , Cheung , C. C. , Masetti , N. , Jiménez-Bailón , E. , D'Abrusco , R. , Paggi , A. , Milisavljevic , D. , La Franca , F. , Smith , H. A. , Tosti , G.

We study the gamma-ray spectra of 30 globular clusters (GCs) thus far detected with the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Presuming that gamma-ray emission of a GC comes from millisecond pulsars (MSPs) contained in, a model that generates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-03-14 Wei Wu , Zhongxiang Wang , Yi Xing , Pengfei Zhang

We investigate the dependence of gamma-ray brightness of blazars on intrinsic properties of their parsec-scale radio jets and the implication for relativistic beaming. By combining apparent jet speeds derived from high-resolution VLBA…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 T. Savolainen , D. C. Homan , T. Hovatta , M. Kadler , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister , E. Ros , J. A. Zensus

Extreme synchrotron blazars, characterized by a first peak in their broadband spectral energy distributions (SEDs) at frequencies exceeding $10^{17}$ Hz, often exhibit a second peak beyond 1~TeV. These sources serve as ideal laboratories…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-03 Ji-Shun Lian , Jia-Xuan Li , Ze-Rui Wang , Rui-Qi Huang , Hai-Ming Zhang , Jin Zhang