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The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is dominated by two classes of sources: Gamma-Ray Bursts (GRBs) and radio loud active galactic nuclei whose jets are pointing at us (blazars). We believe that the radiation we receive from them originates…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriele Ghisellini

Blazars are among the most variable objects in the universe. They feature energetic jets of plasma that launch from the cores of these active galactic nuclei (AGN), triggering activity from radio up to gamma-ray energies. Spatial…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory discovered about a thousand extragalactic sources emitting energy from 100 MeV to 100 GeV. The majority of these sources belong to the class of blazars characterized by a quasi-featureless optical spectrum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Marco Landoni , Aldo Treves , Riccardo Scarpa

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

Blazars can be detected from very large distances due to their high luminosity. However, the detection of $\gamma$-ray emission of blazars beyond $z=3$ has only been confirmed for a small number of sources. Such observations probe the…

We report on the results of X-ray and radio follow-up observations of two GeV gamma-ray sources 2FGL J0923.5+1508 and 2FGL J1502.1+5548, selected as candidates for high-redshift blazars from unassociated sources in the {\it Fermi} Large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Y. Takahashi , J. Kataoka , K. Niinuma , M. Honma , Y. Inoue , T. Totani , S. Inoue , T. Nakamori , K. Maeda

We provide our estimates of the intensity of the gamma-ray emission with an energy near 0.1 TeV generated in inrergalactic space in the interactions of cosmic rays with background emissions. We assume that the cosmic ray sources are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-30 A. V. Uryson

Narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies (NLS1s) is one of the few classes of active galactic nuclei (AGN) harboring powerful relativistic jets and detected in $\gamma$ rays. NLS1s are well-known X-ray sources. While in non-jetted sources the origin…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-18 M. Berton , V. Braito , S. Mathur , L. Foschini , E. Piconcelli , S. Chen , R. W. Pogge

Variable gamma-ray emission has been discovered in five Radio-loud Narrow Line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope. This has clearly demonstrated that these NLSy1 galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Vaidehi S. Paliya , C. S. Stalin , Amit Shukla , S. Sahayanathan

We report our identification of three gigaelectronvolt $\gamma$-ray sources, 4FGL J0502.6+0036, 4FGL J1055.9+6507, and 4FGL J1708.2+5519, as Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). They are listed in the latest Fermi-LAT source catalog as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-21 Shunhao Ji , Zhongxiang Wang , Qiangmeng Huang , Ruoheng Yang

We present the results of a detailed multi-wavelength study of a sample of sixteen narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxies known in $\gamma$-rays so far. This includes a focused X-ray spectral analysis, to compare them with a more general…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-02-27 Vaidehi S. Paliya , M. L. Parker , J. Jiang , A. C. Fabian , L. Brenneman , M. Ajello , D. Hartmann

We report the discovery of gamma-ray emission from the narrow-line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1) galaxy FBQS J1644+2619 by the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi satellite. The Third Fermi LAT Source catalogue reports an unidentified gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-15 F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , J. Larsson , M. Giroletti

Blazars, radio-loud active galactic nuclei with the relativistic jet closely aligned with the line of sight, dominate the extragalactic sky observed at gamma-ray energies, above 100 MeV. We discuss some of the emission properties of these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-05-25 F. Tavecchio

In the paper, we continually use the method of image stacking to study the origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background (EGB) at GeV bands, and find that the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty centimeters (FIRST) sources undetected…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 Ming Zhou , Jiancheng Wang

The fourth-DR3 version (4FGL-DR3) of the Fermi/LAT catalogue of $\gamma$-ray sources contains $\sim$ 1000 objects at a galactic latitude |b| > 10$^{\circ}$ which are not identified with an optical counterpart (UGS). We performed a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-20 Alberto Ulgiati , Simona Paiano , Aldo Treves , Renato Falomo , Boris Sbarufatti , Fabio Pintore , Thomas D. Russell , Giancarlo Cusumano

$\gamma$-ray-emitting narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies ($\gamma$-NLS1) constitute an intriguing small population of Active Galactic Nuclei with $\gamma$-ray emission resembling low power flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ), but with differing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Anna Luashvili , Catherine Boisson , Andreas Zech , Maialen Arrieta-Lobo , Daniel Kynoch

High-redshift ($z >3$) $\gamma$-ray blazars are rare, but they are crucial for our understanding of jet evolution, $\gamma$-ray production and propagation, and the growth of supermassive black holes in the early universe. A new analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-07 Hai Lei , Ying-Kang Zhang , Xiong Jiang , Sebastian Kiehlmann , Anthony C. S. Readhead , Liang Chen , Neng-Hui Liao , Tao An

We present the results of our follow-up observation program of gamma-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. 26 blazars and 39 sources unidentified at other wavelengths were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mai Fujiwara , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Nobuyuki Ienaka

High-energy {\gamma}-rays, which are produced by powerful relativistic jets, are usually associated with blazars and radio galaxies. In the current active galactic nuclei (AGN) paradigm, such jets are almost exclusively launched from…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-12-24 Emilia Järvelä , Anne Lähteenmäki , Jonathan León-Tavares

As part of the TANAMI multiwavelength progam, we discuss new X-ray observations of the $\gamma$-ray and radio-loud Narrow Line Seyfert galaxy ($\gamma$-NLS1) PKS 2004-447. The active galaxy is a member of a small sample of radio-loud NLS1s…