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A New Model for Gamma-Ray Cascades in Extragalactic Magnetic Fields

Very-high-energy (VHE, E \gtrsim 100 GeV) gamma rays emitted by extragalactic sources, such as blazars, initiate electromagnetic cascades in the intergalactic medium. The cascade photons arrive at the earth with angular and temporal…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-06-17 H. Huan , T. Weisgarber , T. Arlen , S. P. Wakely

Gamma-ray excess from a stacked sample of high- and intermediate-frequency peaked blazars observed with the MAGIC telescope

Between 2004 and 2009 a sample of 28 X-ray selected high- and intermediate-frequency peaked blazars with a X-ray flux larger than 2 uJy at 1 keV in the redshift range from 0.018 to 0.361 was observed with the MAGIC telescope at energies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-03 MAGIC Collaboration , J. Aleksić , L. A. Antonelli , P. Antoranz , M. Backes , C. Baixeras , J. A. Barrio , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra González , W. Bednarek , A. Berdyugin , K. Berger , E. Bernardini , A. Biland , O. Blanch , R. K. Bock , G. Bonnoli , P. Bordas , D. Borla Tridon , V. Bosch-Ramon , D. Bose , I. Braun , T. Bretz , D. Britzger , M. Camara , E. Carmona , A. Carosi , P. Colin , S. Commichau , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , M. T. Costado , S. Covino , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , E. De Cea del Pozo , R. De los Reyes , B. De Lotto , M. De Maria , F. De Sabata , C. Delgado Mendez , M. Doert , A. Domínguez , D. Dominis Prester , D. Dorner , M. Doro , D. Elsaesser , M. Errando , D. Ferenc , M. V. Fonseca , L. Font , R. J. García López , M. Garczarczyk , M. Gaug , N. Godinovic , D. Hadasch , A. Herrero , D. Hildebrand , D. Höhne-Mönch , J. Hose , D. Hrupec , C. C. Hsu , T. Jogler , S. Klepser , T. Krähenbühl , D. Kranich , A. La Barbera , A. Laille , E. Leonardo , E. Lindfors , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , M. López , E Lorenz , P. Majumdar , G. Maneva , N. Mankuzhiyil , K. Mannheim , L. Maraschi , M. Mariotti , M. Martínez , D. Mazin , M. Meucci , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , H. Miyamoto , J. Moldón , M. Moles , A. Moralejo , D. Nieto , K. Nilsson , J. Ninkovic , R. Orito , I. Oya , S. Paiano , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , S. Partini , M. Pasanen , D. Pascoli , F. Pauss , R. G. Pegna , M. A. Perez-Torres , M. Persic , L. Peruzzo , F. Prada , E. Prandini , N. Puchades , I. Puljak , I. Reichardt , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , J. Rico , M. Rissi , S. Rügamer , A. Saggion , T. Y. Saito , M. Salvati , M. Sánchez-Conde , K. Satalecka , V. Scalzotto , V. Scapin , C. Schultz , T. Schweizer , M. Shayduk , S. N. Shore , A. Sierpowska-Bartosik , A. Sillanpää , J Sitarek , D. Sobczynska , F. Spanier , S. Spiro , A. Stamerra , B. Steinke , J. C. Struebig , T. Suric , L. Takalo , F. Tavecchio , P. Temnikov , T. Terzic , D. Tescaro , M. Teshima , O. Tibolla , D. F. Torres , H. Vankov , R. M. Wagner , Q. Weitzel , V Zabalza , F. Zandanel , R. Zanin

The connection between optical and VHE gamma-ray high states in the blazar jets

MAGIC has been performing optically triggered Target of Opportunity observations of flaring blazars since the beginning of its scientific operations. The alerts of flaring blazars originate from Tuorla blazar monitoring program, which…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-07-06 Elina J. Lindfors , Riho Reinthal , Daniel Mazin , Kari Nilsson , Leo Takalo , Aimo Sillanpaa , Andrei Berduygin

A Three-Year Multi-Wavelength Study of the Very High Energy Gamma-ray Blazar 1ES 0229+200

The high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object 1ES 0229+200 is a relatively distant (z = 0.1396), hard-spectrum (Gamma ~ 2.5), very-high-energy-emitting (E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray blazar. Very-high-energy measurements of this active galactic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 E. Aliu , S. Archambault , T. Arlen , T. Aune , B. Behera , M. Beilicke , W. Benbow , K. Berger , R. Bird , A. Bouvier , J. H. Buckley , V. Bugaev , K. Byrum , M. Cerruti , X. Chen , L. Ciupik , M. P. Connolly , W. Cui , C. Duke , J. Dumm , M. Errando , A. Falcone , S. Federici , Q. Feng , J. P. Finley , H. Fleischhack , P. Fortin , L. Fortson , A. Furniss , N. Galante , G. H. Gillanders , S. Griffin , S. T. Griffiths , J. Grube , G. Gyuk , D. Hanna , J. Holder , G. Hughes , T. B. Humensky , C. A. Johnson , P. Kaaret , M. Kertzman , Y. Khassen , D. Kieda , H. Krawczynski , F. Krennrich , M. J. Lang , A. S Madhavan , G. Maier , P. Majumdar , S. McArthur , A. McCann , K. Meagher , J. Millis , P. Moriarty , R. Mukherjee , D. Nieto , A. O'Faolain de Bhroithe , R. A. Ong , A. N. Otte , N. Park , J. S. Perkins , M. Pohl , A. Popkow , H. Prokoph , J. Quinn , K. Ragan , L. C. Reyes , P. T. Reynolds , G. T. Richards , E. Roache , G. H. Sembroski , A. W. Smith , D. Staszak , I. Telezhinsky , M. Theiling , A. Varlotta , V. V. Vassiliev , S. Vincent , S. P. Wakely , T. C. Weekes , A. Weinstein , R. Welsing , D. A. Williams , A. Zajczyk , B. Zitzer

Results from MAGIC Observations of Extragalactic Relativistic Sources

The Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov (MAGIC) experiment is an array of two 17-meter telescopes located in the Canary Island of La Palma that observes the very-high energy (VHE) gamma-ray sky in stereoscopic mode since 2009.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Ulisses Barres de Almeida

A search of CO emission lines in blazars: the low molecular gas content of BL Lac objects compared to quasars

BL Lacertae (Lac) objects that are detected at very-high energies (VHE) are of fundamental importance to study multiple astrophysical processes, including the physics of jets, the properties of the extragalactic background light and the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Michele Fumagalli , Miroslava Dessauges-Zavadsky , Amy Furniss , J. Xavier Prochaska , David Williams , Kyle Kaplan , Matthew Hogan

Long-term multi-wavelength study of 1ES 0647+250

The BL Lac object 1ES 0647+250 is one of the few distant $\gamma$-ray emitting blazars detected at very high energies (VHE, $\gtrsim$100 GeV) during a non-flaring state. It was detected with the MAGIC telescopes during its low activity in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-08 MAGIC Collaboration , V. A. Acciari , T. Aniello , S. Ansoldi , L. A. Antonelli , A. Arbet Engels , C. Arcaro , M. Artero , K. Asano , D. Baack , A. Babić , A. Baquero , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , I. Batković , J. Becerra González , W. Bednarek , E. Bernardini , M. Bernardos , A. Berti , J. Besenrieder , W. Bhattacharyya , C. Bigongiari , A. Biland , O. Blanch , H. Bökenkamp , G. Bonnoli , Ž. Bošnjak , I. Burelli , G. Busetto , R. Carosi , M. Carretero-Castrillo , G. Ceribella , Y. Chai , A. Chilingarian , S. Cikota , E. Colombo , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , S. Covino , G. D'Amico , V. D'Elia , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , B. De Lotto , A. Del Popolo , M. Delfino , J. Delgado , C. Delgado Mendez , D. Depaoli , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , E. Do Souto Espiñeira , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , D. Elsaesser , G. Emery , V. Fallah Ramazani , L. Fariña , A. Fattorini , L. Font , C. Fruck , S. Fukami , Y. Fukazawa , R. J. García López , M. Garczarczyk , S. Gasparyan , M. Gaug , J. G. Giesbrecht Paiva , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , P. Gliwny , N. Godinović , J. G. Green , D. Green , D. Hadasch , A. Hahn , T. Hassan , L. Heckmann , J. Herrera , D. Hrupec , M. Hütten , T. Inada , R. Iotov , K. Ishio , Y. Iwamura , I. Jiménez Martínez , J. Jormanainen , D. Kerszberg , Y. Kobayashi , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , A. Lamastra , D. Lelas , F. Leone , E. Lindfors , L. Linhoff , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , R. López-Coto , M. López-Moya , A. López-Oramas , S. Loporchio , A. Lorini , E. Lyard , B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , S. Mangano , K. Mannheim , M. Mariotti , M. Martínez , A. Mas Aguilar , D. Mazin , S. Menchiari , S. Mender , S. Mićanović , D. Miceli , T. Miener , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , E. Molina , H. A. Mondal , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , V. Moreno , T. Nakamori , C. Nanci , L. Nava , V. Neustroev , M. Nievas Rosillo , C. Nigro , K. Nilsson , K. Nishijima , T. Njoh Ekoume , K. Noda , S. Nozaki , Y. Ohtani , T. Oka , J. Otero-Santos , S. Paiano , M. Palatiello , D. Paneque , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , L. Pavletić , M. Persic , M. Pihet , F. Podobnik , P. G. Prada Moroni , E. Prandini , G. Principe , C. Priyadarshi , I. Puljak , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , J. Rico , C. Righi , A. Rugliancich , N. Sahakyan , T. Saito , S. Sakurai , K. Satalecka , F. G. Saturni , B. Schleicher , K. Schmidt , F. Schmuckermaier , J. L. Schubert , T. Schweizer , J. Sitarek , V. Sliusar , D. Sobczynska , A. Spolon , A. Stamerra , J. Strišković , D. Strom , M. Strzys , Y. Suda , T. Surić , M. Takahashi , R. Takeishi , F. Tavecchio , P. Temnikov , T. Terzić , M. Teshima , L. Tosti , S. Truzzi , A. Tutone , S. Ubach , J. van Scherpenberg , G. Vanzo , M. Vazquez Acosta , S. Ventura , V. Verguilov , I. Viale , C. F. Vigorito , V. Vitale , I. Vovk , R. Walter , M. Will , C. Wunderlich , T. Yamamoto , D. Zarić , J. A. Acosta-Pulido , F. D'Ammando , T. Hovatta , S. Kiehlmann , I. Liodakis , C. Leto , W. Max-Moerbeck , L. Pacciani , M. Perri , A. C. S. Readhead , R. A. Reeves , F. Verrecchia

VHE gamma-ray emission from the FSRQs observed by the MAGIC telescopes

Among more than fifty blazars detected in very high energy (VHE, E>100GeV) gamma-rays, only three belong to the subclass of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs): PKS 1510-089, PKS 1222+216 and 3C 279. The detection of FSRQs in the VHE range…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 E. Lindfors , K. Nilsson , U. Barres de Almeida , D. Mazin , D. Paneque , K. Saito , J. Becerra Gonzalez , K. Berger , G. De Caneva , C. Schultz , J. Sitarek , A. Stamerra , F. Tavecchio , S. Buson , F. D'Ammando , M. Hayashida , A. Lähteenmäki , M. Tornikoski , T. Hovatta

The variability patterns of the TeV blazar PG 1553+113 from a decade of MAGIC and multi-band observations

PG 1553+113 is one of the few blazars with a convincing quasi-periodic emission in the gamma-ray band. The source is also a very high-energy (VHE; >100 GeV) gamma-ray emitter. To better understand its properties and identify the underlying…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-13 MAGIC Collaboration , H. Abe , S. Abe , J. Abhir , V. A. Acciari , I. Agudo , T. Aniello , S. Ansoldi , L. A. Antonelli , A. Arbet Engels , C. Arcaro , M. Artero , K. Asano , D. Baack , A. Babić , A. Baquero , U. Barres de Almeida , I. Batković , J. Baxter , J. Becerra González , E. Bernardini , J. Bernete , A. Berti , J. Besenrieder , C. Bigongiari , A. Biland , O. Blanch , G. Bonnoli , Ž. Bošnjak , I. Burelli , G. Busetto , A. Campoy-Ordaz , A. Carosi , R. Carosi , M. Carretero-Castrillo , A. J. Castro-Tirado , Y. Chai , A. Cifuentes , S. Cikota , E. Colombo , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , S. Covino , G. D'Amico , V. D'Elia , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , B. De Lotto , A. Del Popolo , M. Delfino , J. Delgado , C. Delgado Mendez , D. Depaoli , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , D. Dorner , M. Doro , D. Elsaesser , G. Emery , J. Escudero , L. Fariña , A. Fattorini , L. Foffano , L. Font , S. Fukami , Y. Fukazawa , R. J. García López , S. Gasparyan , M. Gaug , J. G. Giesbrecht Paiva , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , P. Gliwny , R. Grau , J. G. Green , D. Hadasch , A. Hahn , L. Heckmann , J. Herrera , T. Hovatta , D. Hrupec , M. Hütten , R. Imazawa , T. Inada , R. Iotov , K. Ishio , I. Jiménez Martínez , J. Jormanainen , D. Kerszberg , G. W. Kluge , Y. Kobayashi , P. M. Kouch , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , M. Láinez Lezáun , A. Lamastra , F. Leone , E. Lindfors , I. Liodakis , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , M. López-Moya , A. López-Oramas , S. Loporchio , A. Lorini , B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , G. Maneva , N. Mang , M. Manganaro , K. Mannheim , M. Mariotti , M. Martínez , M. Martínez-Chicharro , A. Mas-Aguilar , D. Mazin , S. Menchiari , S. Mender , D. Miceli , T. Miener , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , M. Molero González , E. Molina , H. A. Mondal , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , T. Nakamori , C. Nanci , V. Neustroev , C. Nigro , L. Nikolić , K. Nilsson , K. Nishijima , T. Njoh Ekoume , K. Noda , S. Nozaki , Y. Ohtani , A. Okumura , J. Otero-Santos , S. Paiano , M. Palatiello , D. Paneque , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , D. Pavlović , M. Persic , M. Pihet , G. Pirola , F. Podobnik , P. G. Prada Moroni , E. Prandini , G. Principe , C. Priyadarshi , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , J. Rico , C. Righi , N. Sahakyan , T. Saito , K. Satalecka , F. G. Saturni , B. Schleicher , K. Schmidt , F. Schmuckermaier , J. L. Schubert , T. Schweizer , A. Sciaccaluga , J. Sitarek , A. Spolon , A. Stamerra , J. Strišković , D. Strom , Y. Suda , S. Suutarinen , H. Tajima , R. Takeishi , F. Tavecchio , P. Temnikov , K. Terauchi , T. Terzić , M. Teshima , L. Tosti , S. Truzzi , A. Tutone , S. Ubach , J. van Scherpenberg , S. Ventura , V. Verguilov , I. Viale , C. F. Vigorito , V. Vitale , R. Walter , C. Wunderlich , T. Yamamoto , MWL collaborators , : , H. Jermak , I. A. Steele , P. S. Smith , D. Blinov , C. M. Raiteri , M. Villata , D. O. Mirzaqulov , S. O. Kurtanidze , D. Carosati , S. S. Savchenko , J. A. Acosta-Pulido , G. A. Borman , V. Bozhilov , M. I. Carnerero , R. A. Chigladze , G. Damljanovic , S. A. Ehgamberdiev , M. Feige , T. S. Grishina , A. C. Gupta , V. A. Hagen-Thorn , S. Ibryamov , R. Z. Ivanidze , S. G. Jorstad , J. Kania , G. N. Kimeridze , E. N. Kopatskaya , M. Kopp , L. Kunkel , O. M. Kurtanidze , V. M. Larionov , E. G. Larionova , L. V. Larionova , C. Lorey , A. Marchini , A. P. Marscher , M. Minev , D. A. Morozova , M. G. Nikolashvili , E. Ovcharov , D. Reinhart , A. C. Sadun , A. Scherbantin , L. Schneider , E. Semkov , L. A. Sigua , R. Steineke , Yu. V. Troitskaya , I. S. Troitskiy , A. Valcheva , A. A. Vasilyev , O. Vince , E. Zaharieva , N. Zottmann , S. Kiehlmann , A. Readhead , W. Max-Moerbeck , R. A. Reeves , A. Sandrinelli , V. Fallah Ramazani , M. Giroletti , S. Righini , N. Marchili , B. Patricelli , G. Ghirlanda , R. Lico

A Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Spectrum of 1ES 2344+514

The BL Lacertae (BL Lac) object 1ES 2344+514 (1ES 2344), at a redshift of 0.044, was discovered as a source of very high energy (VHE) gamma rays by the Whipple Collaboration in 1995 \citep{2344Catanese98}. This detection was recently…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Schroedter , H. M. Badran , J. H. Buckley , J. Bussons Gordo , D. A. Carter-Lewis , C. Duke , D. J. Fegan , S. F. Fegan , J. P. Finley , G. H. Gillanders , J. Grube , D. Horan , G. E. Kenny , M. Kertzman , K. Kosack , F. Krennrich , D. B. Kieda , J. Kildea , M. J. Lang , Kuen Lee , P. Moriarty , J. Quinn , M. Quinn , G. B. Power-Mooney , H. Sembroski , S. P. Wakely , V. V. Vassiliev , T. C. Weekes , J. Zweerink

High-Energy Neutrino Emission from Blazars

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) with relativistic jets are the most powerful persistent astrophysical sources of electromagnetic radiation in the Universe. Blazars are the most extreme subclass of AGN with jets directed along the line of sight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-19 Foteini Oikonomou

Upper Limits on the Extragalactic Background Light from the Gamma-Ray Spectra of Blazars

The direct measurement of the extragalactic background light (EBL) is difficult at optical to infrared wavelengths because of the strong foreground radiation originating in the Solar System. Very high energy (VHE, E$>$100 GeV) gamma rays…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-29 M. Schroedter

VERITAS Blazar Observations - Recent Results

We present the discovery of very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray emission from the high-frequency-peaked BL Lac object 1ES 0806+524 (z=0.138) and the intermediate-frequency-peaked BL Lac object W Comae (z=0.102) with VERITAS. VHE emission was…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-13 Peter Cogan

Observation of Galactic Sources of Very High Energy Gamma-Rays with the MAGIC Telescope

During its first cycle of observations, the MAGIC (Major Atmospheric Gamma-ray Imaging Cherenkov) telescope has observed very high energy gamma-rays from five galactic objects: the Crab Nebula, the SNRs HESS J1813-178 and HESS J1834-087,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Hendrik Bartko

Prospects for detection of very high-energy emission from GRB in the context of the external shock model

The detection of the 100 GeV-TeV emission by a gamma-ray burst (GRB) will provide an unprecedented opportunity to study the nature of the central engine and the interaction between the relativistic flow and the environment of the burst's…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Galli , L. Piro

Evidence for a connection between the gamma-ray and the highest energy cosmic-ray emissions by BL Lacertae objects

A set of potentially gamma-ray--loud BL Lac objects is selected by intersecting the EGRET and BL Lac catalogs. Of the resulting 14 objects, eight are found to correlate with arrival directions of ultra--high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Gorbunov , P. Tinyakov , I. Tkachev , S. Troitsky

Introduction to extragalactic sources of very high-energy photons

The launch of the Fermi gamma-ray space telescope and the imaging air Cerenkov telescopes H.E.S.S., MAGIC, and VERITAS have substantially transformed our knowledge of gamma-ray sources in the last decade. The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-02 C. Pfrommer

New TeV-emitting BL Lac candidates from the eROSITA X-ray survey

TeV-emitting BL Lac type blazars represent the extreme end of the blazar population. They are characterized by relatively weak jets and radiatively inefficient accretion disks. Particles accelerated in these jets experience fewer radiative…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-14 Cassidy Metzger , Andrea Gokus , Manel Errando

Constraints on the Extragalactic Background Light from Very High Energy Gamma-Ray Observations of Blazars

The extragalactic background light (EBL) from the infrared to the ultraviolet is difficult to measure directly, but can be constrained with a variety of methods. EBL photons absorb gamma-rays from distant blazars, allowing one to use blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-18 Justin D. Finke , Soebur Razzaque

Exploring the Most Extreme Gamma-Ray Blazars Using Broadband Spectral Energy Distributions

Extreme high-synchrotron peaked blazars (EHSPs) are rare high-energy sources characterised by synchrotron peaks beyond 10$^{17}$ Hz in their spectral energy distributions (SEDs). Their extreme properties challenge conventional blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-26 M. Láinez , M. Nievas-Rosillo , A. Domínguez , J. L. Contreras , J. Becerra González , A. Dinesh , V. S. Paliya