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Although many high-energy neutrinos detected by the IceCube telescope are believed to have anextraterrestrial origin, their astrophysical sources remain a mystery. Recently, an unprecedenteddiscovery of a high-energy muon neutrino event…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-27 Ruo-Yu Liu , Kai Wang , Rui Xue , Andrew M. Taylor , Xiang-Yu Wang , Zhuo Li , Huirong Yan

Recent studies suggest that high-energy neutrinos can be produced in the jets of blazars, radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) with jets pointing close to the line of sight. Due to the relatively poor angular resolution of current…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-07 Janka Kőmíves , Krisztina Éva Gabányi , Sándor Frey , Emma Kun

Recently, microquasar jets have aroused the interest of many researchers focusing on the astrophysical plasma outflows and various jet ejections. In this work, we concentrate on the investigation of electromagnetic radiation and particle…

High Energy Physics - Phenomenology · Physics 2021-11-02 Th. V. Papavasileiou , O. T. Kosmas , J. Sinatkas

We describe new implementations of leptonic and hadronic models for the broadband emission from relativistic jets in AGN in a temporary steady state. For the leptonic model, a temporary equilibrium between particle injection/acceleration,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 M. Boettcher , A. Reimer , K. Sweeney , A. Prakash

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei are among the most powerful objects in the universe. In these objects, most of the emission comes from relativistic jets getting their power from the accretion of matter onto supermassive black holes.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-26 Thomas Vuillaume , Gilles Henri , Pierre-Olivier Petrucci

Recent astronomical observations reveal that Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are sources of high-energy radiation. For example, the Fermi-LAT and Hess telescopes have detected gamma-ray emissions from the cores of several types of AGN's. Even…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-15 J. C. Arteaga-Velazquez , Angelo Martinez

A correlation between the highest energy Cosmic Rays (above ~ EeV) and the distribution of active galactic nuclei (AGN) gives rise to a prediction of neutrino production in the same sources. In this paper, we present a detailed AGN model,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Julia K. Becker , Peter L. Biermann

We present a bottom-up calculation of the flux of ultra-high energy cosmic rays (UHECRs) and high-energy neutrinos produced by powerful jets of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). By propagating test particles in 3D relativistic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 Rostom Mbarek , Damiano Caprioli , Kohta Murase

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

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 M. Orienti , F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti , D. Dallacasa , T. Venturi , G. Giovannini

We report on a series of three-dimensional magnetohydrodynamic simulations of active galactic nucleus (AGN) jet propagation in realistic models of magnetized galaxy clusters. We are primarily interested in the details of energy transfer…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-14 S. M. O'Neill , T. W. Jones

It is generally accepted that relativistic jet outflows power the nonthermal emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN). The composition of these jets -- leptonic versus hadronic -- is still under debate. We investigate the microphysical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 R. Schlickeiser , R. Vainio , M. Boettcher , I. Lerche , M. Pohl , C. Schuster

We investigate the consequences of acceleration of nuclei in jets of active galaxies not far from the surface of an accretion disk. The nuclei can be accelerated in the re-connection regions in the jet and/or at the jet boundary, between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-12-23 W. Bednarek

Blazar TXS 0506+056 is the main candidate for a coincident neutrino and gamma-ray flare event. In this paper, we present a detailed kinetic lepto-hadronic emission model capable of producing a photon and neutrino spectrum given a set of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-09 Bruno Jiménez-Fernández , H. J. van Eerten

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) are believed to be one of the main source candidates for the high-energy (TeV-PeV) cosmic neutrino flux recently discovered by the IceCube neutrino observatory. Nevertheless, several correlation studies between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-23 G. Maggi , S. Buitink , P. Correa , K. D. de Vries , G. Gentile , J. Leon Tavares , O. Scholten , N. van Eijndhoven , M. Vereecken , T. Winchen

Compact relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei offer an effective tool for investigating the physics of nuclear regions in galaxies. The emission properties, dynamics, and evolution of jets in AGN are closely connected to the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Andrei Lobanov

Active galactic nucleus (AGN) powered jets can accelerate cosmic ray electrons, leading to the observed radio synchrotron emission. To simulate this emission, jet dynamics in galaxy clusters must be coupled to electron spectral modelling.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-01-19 Léna Jlassi , Rainer Weinberger , Christoph Pfrommer , Maria Werhahn , Joseph Whittingham , Philipp Girichidis

Measurements from astroparticle experiments, such as the 2017 flare associated with the source TXS 0506+056, indicate that blazars act as multi-messenger (MM; radiation and neutrinos) factories. Theoretically, the particle acceleration…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-18 E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino , J. C. Rodríguez-Ramírez , M. V. del Valle

It is suggested that the outflowing plasma in the jets of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is inhomogeneous and consists of separate clouds. These clouds are strongly magnetized and move away from the central engine at relativistic speeds. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 V. V. Usov , M. V. Smolsky

IceCube is a cubic-kilometer Cherenkov telescope operating at the South Pole. In 2013 IceCube discovered high-energy astrophysical neutrinos and has more recently found compelling evidence for a flaring blazar being a source of high-energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 Federica Bradascio

Nuclear jets containing relativistic ``hot'' particles close to the central engine cool dramatically by producing high energy radiation. The radiative dissipation is similar to the famous Compton drag acting upon ``cold'' thermal particles…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Karl Mannheim