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We study the variability properties at radio frequencies of the jets thought to be typical of Active Galactic Nuclei, i.e. bulk Lorentz factor \Gamma ~ 10, and incoherent synchrotron emission. We assume that the radiating electrons are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 M. Spada , M. Salvati , F. Pacini

We reinvestigate the problem of the appearance of relativistic jets when geometrical opening is taken into account. We propose a new criterion to define apparent velocities and Doppler factors, which we think being determined by the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 T. Boutelier , G. Henri , P. O. Petrucci

We present a numerical model developed to calculate observed fluxes of relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei. The observed flux of each turbulent eddy is dependent upon its variable Doppler boosting factor, computed as a function of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-10-06 Victoria Calafut , Paul J. Wiita

We discuss some phenomenological aspects of $\gamma$-ray emitting jets. In particular, we present calculations of the $\gamma$-sphere and $\pi$-sphere for various target photon fields, and employ them to demonstrate how $\gamma$-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Amir Levinson

Constraints on the dynamics, dissipation, and production of VHE neutrinos in relativistic jets are derived using opacity calculations and VHE $\gamma$-ray observations. In particular, it is demonstrated how rapid variability of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-17 Amir Levinson

The question of the collimation of relativistic jets is the subject of a lively debate in the community. We numerically compute the apparent velocity and the Doppler factor of a non homokinetic jet using different velocity profile, to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 P. O. Petrucci , T. Boutelier , G. Henri

Relativistic jets of radio loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) produce highly directed, intense beams of radiation. A fraction of this beamed radiation scatters on the thermal plasma generally surrounding an AGN. The morphology of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Conrad Cramphorn , Sergey Sazonov , Rashid Sunyaev

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) show a range of morphologies and dynamical properties, which are determined not only by parameters intrinsic to the central engine but also their interaction with the surrounding environment. We investigate the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-16 Soham Mandal , Paul C. Duffell , Yuan Li

It is generally believed that the variability of photospheric emission in gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) traces that of the jet power. This work further investigates the variability of photospheric emission in a variable jet. By setting a constant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-26 Kai Wang , Da-Bin Lin , Yun Wang , Lu-yao Jiang , Shen-Shi Du , Xiao-Yan Li , Jia Ren , Xiang-gao Wang , En-Wei Liang

We present a general relativistic (GR) model of jet variability in active galactic nuclei due to orbiting blobs in helical motion along a funnel or cone shaped magnetic surface anchored to the accretion disk near the black hole. Considering…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-26 P. Mohan , A. Mangalam

We conducted an analysis of gamma-ray variability in a large sample of jetted active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by utilizing archival Fermi-LAT light curves and applying damped random walk modeling to obtain variability amplitude. Our primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Dingrong Xiong , Xiaoling Yu , Xiaogu Zhong , Xiaotong Guo , Nan Ding

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

Radio maps of AGNs often show linear features, called jets, both on pc as well as kpc scales. These jets supposedly possess relativistic motion and are oriented close to the line of sight of the observer and accordingly the relativistic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-08-11 Ashok K. Singal

The K\"onigl inhomogeneous jet model is applied to investigate the properties of the jets in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs). A sample of the AGNs is collected, in which the measurements of the angular size and radio flux density of the VLBI…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 D. R. Jiang , Xinwu Cao , Xiaoyu Hong

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 investigated the time-dependent radiative and dynamical properties of light supersonic jets launched into an external medium, using hydrodynamic simulations and numerical radiative transfer calculations. These involved various structural…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Curtis J. Saxton , Kinwah Wu , Svetlana Korunoska , Khee-Gan Lee , Kai-Yan Lee , Nicola Beddows

Supermassive black holes launch highly relativistic jets with velocities reaching Lorentz factors as high as $\Gamma>50$. How the jets accelerate to such high velocities and where along the jet do they reach terminal velocity are open…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 I. Liodakis , T. Hovatta , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , M. A. Gurwell , A. Lähteenmäki , M. Tornikoski

We discuss results from a decade long program to study the fine-scale structure and the kinematics of relativistic AGN jets with the aim of better understanding the acceleration and collimation of the relativistic plasma forming AGN jets.…

Broadband emission from relativistic outflows (jets) of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) contains valuable information about the nature of the jet itself, and about the central engine which launches it. Using special…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Petar Mimica , Miguel Angel Aloy , Jesus M. Rueda-Becerril , Siham Tabik , Carmen Aloy

The variability mechanisms from jetted AGNs are still under debate. Here the damped random walk (DRW) model, implemented through Gaussian Processe (GPs), is used to fit the $ZTF$ long-term optical light curves of 1684 $\gamma$-ray emission…

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