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Blazars are the most extreme class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Despite a previous investigation at 102 MHz for a small sample of BL Lacs and our recent analysis of blazars detected in the Westerbork Northern Sky Survey (WENSS), a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-19 F. Massaro , M. Giroletti , A. Paggi , R. D'Abrusco , G. Tosti , S. Funk

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

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) are known to exhibit optical/UV variability and most of them can be well modeled by the damped random walks. Physical processes that are not related to the accretion disk, such as tidal disruption events (TDE)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-04-17 Zhiyuan Zheng , Yong Shi , Shuowen Jin , H. Dannerbauer , Qiusheng Gu , Xin Li , Xiaoling Yu

Radio and gamma-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are thought to share a common origin, related to the ejection phenomena in the vicinity of supermassive black holes. Thanks to its sensitivity, surveying capability, and broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 M. Giroletti , A. Reimer , L. Fuhrmann , V. Pavlidou , J. L. Richards

The Cherenkov Telescope Array is a next generation ground-based gamma-ray observatory de- signed to detect photons in the 20 GeV to 300 TeV energy range. With a sensitivity improvement of up to one order of magnitude on the entire energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Roberta Zanin , Jamie Holder

Blazars, a class of active galactic nuclei (AGN) powered by supermassive black holes, are known for their remarkable variability across multiple timescales and wavelengths. Despite significant advancements in our understanding of AGN…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-04 Gopal Bhatta , Suvas C. Chaudhary , Niraj Dhital , Tek P. Adhikari , Maksym Mohorian , Radim Pánis , Raghav Neupane , Yogesh Singh Maharjan

We have used photometry from the Kepler satellite to characterize the variability of four radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) on timescales from years to minutes. The Kepler satellite produced nearly continuous high precision data sets…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-01-27 Mitchell Revalski , Dawid Nowak , Paul J. Wiita , Ann E. Wehrle , Stephen C. Unwin

Relativistic jets are one of the most powerful manifestations of the release of energy related to the supermassive black holes at the centre of active galactic nuclei (AGN). Their emission is observed across the entire electromagnetic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-04-14 M. Orienti

We study high-energy neutrino production in inner jets of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN), taking into account effects of external photon fields and the blazar sequence. We show that the resulting diffuse neutrino intensity is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-08 Kohta Murase , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Charles D. Dermer

Blazars are highly variable active galactic nuclei which emit radiation at all wavelengths from radio to gamma-rays. Polarized radiation from blazars is one key piece of evidence for synchrotron radiation at low energies and it also varies…

Blazars are highly variable, radio-loud active galactic nuclei with jets oriented at a small angle to the line of sight. The observed emission of these sources covers the whole electromagnetic spectrum from radio frequencies up to the high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-04-20 Alicja Wierzcholska

We present the discovery of PSO J030947.49+271757.31, the radio brightest (23.7 mJy at 1.4 GHz) active galactic nucleus (AGN) at z>6.0. It was selected by cross-matching the NRAO VLA Sky Survey and the Panoramic Survey Telescope and Rapid…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2020-03-11 S. Belladitta , A. Moretti , A. Caccianiga , C. Spingola , P. Severgnini , R. Della Ceca , G. Ghisellini , D. Dallacasa , T. Sbarrato , C. Cicone , L. P. Cassarà , M. Pedani

Blazars, a unique class of active galactic nuclei, exhibit highly variable emission across the electromagnetic spectrum. This variability frequently manifests as intense flaring events, sparking an ongoing debate in recent literature about…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-08 Pablo Peñil , Nuria Torres-Albà , Alba Rico , Marco Ajello , Sara Buson , Sagar Adhikari

The VERITAS array of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes has collected nearly 6000 hours of observations of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). It has detected 39 very-high-energy (VHE, >100 GeV) AGNs at redshifts up to z = 0.9, of which 24…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-09 Orel Gueta

We collect data at all frequencies for the new sources classified as unknown active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the latest Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) all-sky hard X-ray catalog. Focusing on the 36 sources with measured redshift, we compute…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-07 Luca Giuliani , Gabriele Ghisellini , Tullia Sbarrato

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) can be probed by at different regions of the electromagnetic spectrum: e.g., radio observations reveal the nature of their relativistic jets and their magnetic fields, and complementarily, X-ray observations…

The Cherenkov Telescope Array (CTA) will be able to perform unprecedented observations of the transient very high-energy sky. An on-line science alert generation (SAG) pipeline, with a required 30 second latency, will allow the discovery or…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2019-07-19 Valentina Fioretti , Deivid Ribeiro , Thomas B. Humensky , Andrea Bulgarelli , Gernot Maier , Abelardo Moralejo , Cosimo Nigro

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are energetic astrophysical sources powered by accretion onto supermassive black holes in galaxies, and present unique observational signatures that cover the full electromagnetic spectrum over more than twenty…

The VERITAS array of four 12-m imaging atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes began full-scale operations in 2007, and is one of the world's most sensitive detectors of astrophysical very high energy (VHE; E>100 GeV) gamma rays. Observations of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-09 Wystan Benbow , the VERITAS Collaboration

Blazars are the most numerous type of observed high-energy gamma-ray emitters. However, their emission mechanisms and population properties are still not well-understood. Crucial to this understanding are their cosmological redshifts, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-24 Eli Kasai , Paolo Goldoni , Santiago Pita , Catherine Boisson , Michael Backes , Garret Cotter , Filippo D'Ammando , Brian van Soelen