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Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) may emit highly collimated and intense jets of relativistic electrons which upscatter ambient photons. These electrons can also scatter off the cold dark matter halo of the galaxy to produce high energy photons…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-30 Elliott D. Bloom , James D. Wells

High-energy neutrinos and photons are complementary messengers, probing violent astrophysical processes and structural evolution of the Universe. X-ray and neutrino observations jointly constrain conditions in active galactic nuclei (AGN)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Idunn B. Jacobsen , Kinwah Wu , Alvina Y. L. On , Curtis J. Saxton

Jets associated with Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have been observed for almost a century, initially at optical and radio wavelengths. They are now widely accepted as "exhausts" produced electromagnetically by the central, spinning, massive…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-11-25 R. Blandford , W. East , K. Nalewajko , Y. Yuan , J. Zrake

The origin of core radio emission in radio-quiet active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is still actively debated. General relativistic magnetohydrodynamics simulations often predict the launching of moderately large-scale jets from super-Eddington…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-13 Jeremiah D. Paul , Richard M. Plotkin

Recent observations with ALMA have revealed evidence for non-thermal synchrotron emission from the core regions of two nearby Seyfert galaxies. This suggests that the coronae of accretion disks in active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can be…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 Yoshiyuki Inoue , Dmitry Khangulyan , Susumu Inoue , Akihiro Doi

IceCube observations point to Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) as promising contributors to the observed astrophysical neutrino flux. Close to the central black hole, protons can be accelerated through magnetic reconnection to very high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-13 D. Karavola , M. Petropoulou , D. F. G. Fiorillo , A. Georgakakis , L. Comisso , L. Sironi

We investigate the possibility that radio-bright active galactic nuclei (AGN) are responsible for the TeV--PeV neutrinos detected by IceCube. We use an unbinned maximum-likelihood-ratio method, 10 years of IceCube muon-track data, and 3388…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-23 Bei Zhou , Marc Kamionkowski , Yun-feng Liang

Various supernovae (SN), compact object coalescences, and tidal disruption events are widely believed to occur embedded in active galactic nuclei (AGN) accretion disks and generate detectable electromagnetic (EM) signals. We collectively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-12 Zi-Hang Zhou , Jin-Ping Zhu , Kai Wang

Both long-duration gamma-ray bursts (LGRBs) from core collapse of massive stars and short-duration GRBs (SGRBs) from mergers of binary neutron star (BNS) or neutron star--black hole (NSBH) are expected to occur in the accretion disk of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-04-19 Jin-Ping Zhu , Kai Wang , Bing Zhang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Yun-Wei Yu , He Gao

Active galactic nuclei (AGNs) have been one of the most widely discussed sources of ultrahigh-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). The recent results of Pierre Auger observatory (PAO) have indicated a possible composition change of UHECRs above…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-07 Asaf Pe'er , Kohta Murase , Peter Mészáros

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

Recent observations by the IceCube Neutrino Observatory have revealed a significant excess of high-energy neutrinos from nearby Seyfert galaxies, such as NGC~1068, without a corresponding flux of high-energy gamma-rays. This suggests that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-06 Minh Nhat Ly , Yoshiyuki Inoue , Yasuhiko Sentoku , Takayoshi Sano

A thorough study of radio emission in Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is of fundamental importance to understand the physical mechanisms responsible for the emission and the interplay between accretion and ejection processes. High frequency…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-27 E. Chiaraluce , F. Panessa , G. Bruni , R. D. Baldi , E. Behar , F. Vagnetti , F. Tombesi , I. McHardy

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

With the coincident detection of a gamma-ray flare and a neutrino from the blazar TXS 0506+056, Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) have been put into focus as possible sources of the diffuse neutrino flux. We present a space and time-resolved…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-24 Mario R. Hoerbe , Paul J. Morris , Garret Cotter , Julia Becker Tjus

The origin of diffuse high-energy neutrinos from TeV to PeV energies detected by IceCube Observatory remains a mystery. In our previous work, we have shown that hadronuclear (p-p) interactions in AGN jets could be important and generate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-08 Rui Xue , Ze-Rui Wang , Jagdish C. Joshi , Wei-Jian Li

Models of the origin of astrophysical neutrinos with energies from TeVs to PeVs are strongly constrained by multimessenger observations and population studies. Recent results point to statistically significant associations between these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-09 O. E. Kalashev , P. Kivokurtseva , S. Troitsky

We explore the emissions by accelerated electrons in shocked shells driven by jets in active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Focusing on powerful sources which host luminous quasars, the synchrotron radiation and inverse Compton (IC) scattering of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 H. Ito , M. Kino , N. Kawakatu , S. Yamada

Recently IceCube collaboration has reported first evidence for the astrophysical neutrinos. Observation corresponds to the total astrophysical neutrino flux of the order of $3 \cdot 10^{-8}$ $GeV/cm^2/s/sr$ in a PeV energy range. Active…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-17 Oleg Kalashev , Dmitri Semikoz , Igor Tkachev

Active galactic nuclei (AGN) can accelerate protons to energies of $\sim$10-100 TeV, with secondary production of high-energy neutrinos. If the acceleration is driven by magnetized turbulence, the main properties of the resulting proton and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-24 Damiano F. G. Fiorillo , Luca Comisso , Enrico Peretti , Maria Petropoulou , Lorenzo Sironi