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We performed a systematic X-ray study of eight nearby $\gamma$-ray bright radio galaxies with {\em Suzaku} for understanding the origin of their X-ray emissions. The {\em Suzaku} spectra for five of those have been presented previously,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-09 Y. Fukazawa , S. Tokuda , R. Itoh , Y. Tanaka , J. Finke , L. Stawarz

We have been performing daily observations of bright microquasars at 1.2-20~GHz with the Northern sector of RATAN-600 radio telescope for more than ten years. During the 2019--2021 observations we recorded bright flares, which we call giant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-23 S. A. Trushkin , A. V. Shevchenko , N. N. Bursov , P. G. Tsybulev , N. A. Nizhel'skii , A. N. Borisov , A. A. Kudryashova

We search for the long-term variability of the \gamma-ray sky in the energy range E > 1 GeV with 168 weeks of Fermi-LAT data. We perform a full sky blind search for regions with variable flux looking for deviations from uniformity. We bin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 M. S. Pshirkov , G. I. Rubtsov

The abundance of accelerators and the ambient conditions make Cygnus X a natural laboratory for studying the life cycle of cosmic-rays (CRs). This naturally makes the Cygnus X complex a highly interesting source in neutrino astronomy, in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-24 Mehmet Guenduez , Julia Becker Tjus , Björn Eichmann , Francis Halzen

The microquasar LS 5039 has recently been detected as a source of very high energy (VHE) $\gamma$-rays. This detection, that confirms the previously proposed association of LS 5039 with the EGRET source 3EG~J1824$-$1514, makes of LS 5039 a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. M. Paredes , V. Bosch-Ramon , G. E. Romero

The serendipitous discovery of an unidentified extended TeVgamma-ray source close to the galactic plane named HESS J1303-631 at a significance of 21 standard deviations is reported. The observations were performed between February and June…

Astrophysics · Physics 2012-08-27 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , F. Aharonian

Cygnus X-3 is a unique microquasar. Its X-ray emission shows a very strong 4.8-hour orbital modulation. But its mass-donating companion is a Wolf-Rayet star. Also unlike most other X-ray binaries Cygnus X-3 is relatively bright in the radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-03-24 M. L. McCollough , K. I. I. Koljonen , D. C. Hannikainen

We report the first detection of GeV gamma-ray flaring activity from the compact symmetric object (CSO)-like source 4C 76.03, based on 17 years of Fermi-LAT observations. Its long-term, time-averaged gamma-ray properties are consistent with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-24 Xiong Jiang , Hai Lei , Hao-Yi Huang , Wei Zhang , Yang-Ji Li , Da-Ming Wei

The long-term transitions of the black hole candidate Cygnus X-1 (between the states gamma_1, gamma_2, and gamma_3) include the occasional appearance of a strong ~ MeV bump (gamma_1), whose strength appears to be anti-correlated with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 Fulvio Melia , Ranjeev Misra

The recent detections of microquasars at energies above a few hundred keV up to the TeV in one case has stimulated a strong interest and raised several questions. How are the MeV, GeV, and even TeV emissions, produced? What are the emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-07 Jérôme Rodriguez

Microquasars, the local siblings of extragalactic quasars, are binary systems comprising a compact object and a companion star. By accreting matter from their companions, microquasars launch powerful winds and jets, influencing the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-25 Jian Li , Diego F. Torres , Ruo-Yu Liu , Matthew Kerr , Emma de Ona Wilhelmi , Yang Su

We study orbital modulation of X-rays from Cyg X-3, using data from Swift, INTEGRAL and RXTE. Using the wealth of the presently available data and an improved averaging method, we obtain energy-dependent folded and averaged light curves…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-05 Andrzej A. Zdziarski , Chandreyee Maitra , Adam Frankowski , Gerald K. Skinner , Ranjeev Misra

Violent multi-wavelength variabilities are observed in gamma-ray-selected blazars. We present an analysis of long-term light curves for eight bright blazars to explore the co-variation pattern in the gamma-ray and radio bands. We extract…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Hai-Ming Zhang , Zhen-Jie Wang , Jin Zhang , Ting-Feng Yi , Liang Chen , Rui-Jing Lu , En-Wei Liang

Here we report the discovery of very high energy gamma-ray emission from the radio emitting X-ray binary LS I +61 303 with the Major Atmospheric Gamma Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) telescope. This high energy emission has been found to be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Nuria Sidro

We present preliminary results of a campaign undertaken with different radio interferometers to observe a sample of the most variable unidentified EGRET sources. We expect to detect which of the possible counterparts of the gamma-ray…

The SS433, a well-known binary system with an internal black hole, have shown since half a century, an inner (a few year light distances) twin precessing jets spirals. These beams are made by tidal forces while stripping mass from large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-17 D. Fargion , P. G. De Sanctis Lucentini , S. Turriziani , M. Y. Khlopov , D. Sopin

The unidentified TeV source in Cygnus is now confirmed by follow-up observations from 2002 with the HEGRA stereoscopic system of Cherenkov Telescopes. Using all data (1999 to 2002) we confirm this new source as steady in flux over the four…

Astrophysics · Physics 2017-04-26 HEGRA Collaboration , F. Aharonian

We report the discovery of gamma-ray emission from the Circinus galaxy using the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. Circinus is a nearby (~4 Mpc) starburst with a heavily obscured Seyfert-type active…

We present results of monitoring observations of the micro-quasars CygnusX-1 and Cygnus X-3 at 0.61 and 1.28 GHz. The observations were performed with Giant Meter-wave Radio Telescope, GMRT, between 2003 June and 2005 January. Variable,…