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Cygnus X-3 (Cyg X-3) is a well-known microquasar with relativistic jets. Cyg X-3 is especially famous for its giant radio outbursts, which have been observed once every few years since their first discovery. Each giant outburst presumably…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Masato Tsuboi , Kazuhisa Kamegai , Atsushi Miyazaki , Kouichiro Nakanishi , Taro Kotani

The X-ray emission from quasars such as 3C273 is generally agreed to arise from Compton scattering of low energy seed photons by relativistic electrons in a relativistic jet oriented close to the line of sight. However there are a number of…

Both leptonic and hadronic emission processes may contribute to blazar jet emission; which dominates in blazars's high energy emission component remains an open question. Some intermediate synchrotron peaked blazars transition from their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-01 Abel L. Peirson , Ioannis Liodakis , Roger W. Romani

We test the synchrotron emission scenario for the very bright gamma-ray flare of blazar 3C 279 observed in 2015 June using time-dependent numerical simulations. A bulk Lorentz factor as high as 100 can bring the synchrotron maximum energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-19 Katsuaki Asano , Masaaki Hayashida

Context. 3C 454.3 is a very active flat spectrum radio quasar (blazar) that has undergone a recent outburst in all observed bands, including the optical. Aims. In this work we explore the short-term optical variability of 3C 454.3 during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 R. Bachev , E. Semkov , A. Strigachev , B. Mihov , A. C. Gupta , S. Peneva , E. Ovcharov , A. Valcheva , A. Lalova

The blazar 3C 279, one of the brightest identified extragalactic objects in the gamma-ray sky, underwent a flare of a factor 10 amplitude in gamma-rays towards the end of a 3-week pointing by CGRO, in 1996 January-February. The flare peak…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 A. E. Wehrle , E. Pian , C. M. Urry , L. Maraschi , G. Ghisellini , R. C. Hartman

As a characteristic feature of generic blazars the polarization behavior of the quasi-periodic optical outbursts observed in OJ287 is investigated. The optical light-curves of the December/2015 outburst are also simulated in terms of the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-05-13 S. J. Qian

We discuss the results of the radio studies of the X-ray binaries with relativistic jets. We carried out a multi-frequency (1-30 GHz) daily monitoring of the radio flux variability of the microquasars SS433, GRS1915+105, and Cyg X-3 with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Sergei A. Trushkin , Nikolaj A. Nizhelskij , Nikolaj N. Bursov

The synchrotron reflection scenario recently proposed to explain $\gamma$-ray flares observed from blazar jets is studied. Our analysis takes into account the angular distribution of the beamed radiation, the finite extent of the scattering…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-23 M. Boettcher , C. D. Dermer

The quasar 3C 454.3 is a blazar known for its rapid and violent outbursts seen across the electromagnetic spectrum. Using gamma-ray, X-ray, multi-band optical, and very long baseline interferometric data we investigate the nature of two…

We model light curves of flares observed in blazars, assuming that they are produced by relativistic electrons/positrons injected by forward-reverse shocks traveling down the jet with relativistic speeds. We approximate the radiating region…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Sikora , M. Blazejowski , R. Moderski , G. Madejski

Intense outbursts in blazars are among the most extreme phenomena seen in extragalactic objects. Studying these events can offer important information about the energetic physical processes taking place within the innermost regions of…

Jet models for the high-energy emission of Galactic X-ray binary sources have regained significant interest with detailed spectral and timing studies of the X-ray emission from microquasars, the recent detection by the HESS collaboration of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Swati Gupta , Markus Boettcher , Charles D. Dermer

It is widely accepted that strong and variable radiation detected over all accessible energy bands in a number of active galaxies arises from a relativistic, Doppler-boosted jet pointing close to our line of sight. The size of the emitting…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-11-19 LAT Collaboration , members of the 3C 279 multi-band campaign

The large scale jet of quasar 3C 273 has been observed in radio to $\gamma$ ray frequencies. Earlier the X-ray emission from knot A of this jet has been explained with inverse Compton scattering of the cosmic microwave background radiations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-08-01 Esha Kundu , Nayantara Gupta

We compare the rise and decay timescales of $\sim$200 long-term ($\sim$weeks-months) GeV and R-band outbursts and $\sim$25 short-term ($\sim$hr-day) GeV flares in a sample of 10 blazars using light curves from the Fermi-LAT and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Namrata Roy , Ritaban Chatterjee , Manasvita Joshi , Aritra Ghosh

Multiwavelength monitoring of the blazar 3C 279 observed a very bright, 12-hour, orphan gamma-ray flare on 20 Dec 2013 with a uniquely hard Fermi-LAT spectrum and high Compton dominance. We work with a one-zone, leptonic model with both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-24 Tiffany R. Lewis , Justin D. Finke , Peter A. Becker

Recurrent flaring events at X- and soft gamma-ray energies have been recently reported for the galactic black hole candidate Cygnus X-1. The observed fluxes during these transient outbursts are far higher than what is observed in ``normal''…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 G. E. Romero , M. M. Kaufman Bernado , I. F. Mirabel

Flattenings of nonthermal radiation spectra observed from knots and interknot locations of the jets of 3C273 and M87 in UV and X-ray bands are discussed within modern models of magnetic field generation in the relativistic jets.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gregory D. Fleishman

We present a multiwavelength analysis of the simultaneous optical and X-ray light curves of the microquasar V404 Cyg during the June 2015 outburst. We have performed a comprehensive analysis of all the INTEGRAL/IBIS, JEM-X, and OMC…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-12 J. Alfonso-Garzón , C. Sánchez-Fernández , P. A. Charles , J. M. Mas-Hesse , P. Gandhi , M. Kimura , A. Domingo , J. Rodriguez , J. Chenevez