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We collect a large sample with a reliable redshift detected by the Fermi satellite after 10 years of data (4FGL-DR2), including blazars, $\gamma$-ray Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies ($\gamma$NLS1s), and radio galaxies. The spectral energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-23 Chen Yongyun , Gu Qiusheng , Fan Junhui , Yu Xiaoling , Ding Nan , Xiong Dingrong , Guo Xiaotong

Millisecond Pulsars are second most abundant source population discovered by the Fermi-LAT. They might contribute non-negligibly to the diffuse emission measured at high latitudes by Fermi-LAT, the IDGRB. Gamma-ray sources also contribute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 F. Calore , M. Di Mauro , F. Donato

Extremely High Synchrotron Peak (EHSP) blazars are observed to form a small population of sources with high energy hump peaking at TeV energies in their broad-band spectral energy distributions. The observed gamma-ray emission from these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-29 K. K. Singh , P. J. Meintjes , N. Bhatt , B. van Soelen

The highest-energy blazars exhibit non-thermal radiation extending beyond 1 TeV with high luminosities and strong variabilities, indicating extreme particle acceleration in their relativistic jets. The gamma-ray spectra of blazars contain…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Qi Feng

Low-frequency radio surveys allow in-depth studies and new analyses of classes of sources previously known and characterised only in other bands. In recent years, low radio frequency observations of blazars have been available thanks to new…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-08 Daniele d'Antonio , Marcello Giroletti , Gabriele Giovannini , Alessandro Maini

We present results of variability study of a sample of 20 powerful blazars using Fermi/LAT (0.1--300 GeV) observations. We studied decade-long observations applying various analysis tools such as flux distribution, symmetry analysis, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-27 Gopal Bhatta , Niraj Dhital

The broadband spectral energy distribution(SED) of blazars is generally interpreted as radiation arising from synchrotron and inverse Compton mechanisms.Traditionally, the underlying source parameters responsible for these emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 S. Sahayanathan , A. Sinha , R. Misra

The \gamma-ray loud blazars (flat spectrum radio quasars--FSRQs and BL Lacertae objects-BLs) are very bright in the \gamma-ray bands, which is perhaps associated with a beaming effect. Therefore, one can expect that the \gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. H. Fan , J. H. Yang , J. Y. Zhang , T. X. Hua , Y. Liu , Y. P. Qin , Y. Huang

We present the time variability properties of a sample of six blazars, AO 0235+164, 3C 273, 3C 279, PKS 1510-089, PKS 2155-304, and 3C 454.3, at optical-IR as well as gamma-ray energies. These observations were carried out as a part of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Ritaban Chatterjee , C. Bailyn , E. W. Bonning , M. Buxton , P. Coppi , G. Fossati , J. Isler , L. Maraschi , C. M. Urry

In November 2023, the Fermi Large Area Telescope detected a $\gamma$-ray flare from the high-redshift blazar GB6 B1428+4217 ($z=4.715$). We initiated a multi-wavelength follow-up campaign involving Swift, NuSTAR, the Sierra Nevada and…

Context. Investigation of the hard X-ray emission properties of blazars is key to the understanding of the central engine of the sources and associated jet process. In particular, simultaneous spectral and timing analyses of the intra-day…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-14 Gopal Bhatta , Maksym Mohorian , Illya Bilinsky

Blazars research is one of the hot topics of contemporary extra-galactic astrophysics. That is because these sources are the most abundant type of extra-galactic gamma-ray sources and are suspected to play a central role in multi-messenger…

One of the most intriguing and challenging quests of current astrophysics is to understand the physical conditions and processes responsible for production of high-energy particles, and emission of \gamma-rays. A combination of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-06-22 B. Rani , T. P. Krichbaum , J. A. Hodgson , J. A. Zensus

The Fermi-LAT telescope has measured the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) generated by the ensemble of all extragalactic sources. The energy distribution of the EGB is well described as a power-law with a spectral index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 Paolo Lipari

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that have a relativistic jet with a small viewing angle towards the observer. Recent results based on hadronic scenarios have motivated an ongoing discussion of how a blazar can produce…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-07 A. Rosales de León , A. M. Brown , P. M. Chadwick

Aims. We present a sample of 4388 AGNs with available radio core-dominance parameters defined as the ratio of the core flux densities to extended ones, namely, R = Score/Sext., which includes 630 Fermi-detected AGNs respect to the catalog…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-05-14 Zhi-Yuan Pei , Jun-Hui Fan , Denis Bastieri , Jiang-He Yang , Hu-Bing Xiao

Blazars radiate from relativistic plasma jets with bulk Lorentz factors {\Gamma} ~ 10, closely aligned along our line of sight. In a number of blazars of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar type such as 3C 454.3 and 3C 279 gamma-ray flares have…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-22 Marco Tavani , Valerio Vittorini , Alfonso Cavaliere

We present the first collective evidence that Fermi-detected jets of high kinetic power (L_kin) are dominated by inverse Compton emission from upscattered external photons. Using a sample with a broad range in orientation angle, including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Eileen T. Meyer , Giovanni Fossati , Markos Georganopoulos , Matthew L. Lister

The imprint of cosmic backgrounds in the gamma ray spectra of blazars has recently been detected by H.E.S.S. and Fermi-LAT, opening the way to studies of gamma-ray propagation on cosmological scales. This proceeding discusses the current…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 Jonathan Biteau

The Extragalactic Background Light (EBL) includes photons with wavelengths from ultraviolet to infrared, which are effective at attenuating gamma rays with energy above ~10 GeV during propagation from sources at cosmological distances. This…

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