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Context. Important information on the evolution of the jet can be obtained by comparing the physical state of the plasma at its propagation through the broad-line region (where the jet is most likely formed) into the intergalactic medium,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 D. Zargaryan , S. Gasparyan , V. Baghmanyan , N. Sahakyan

Blazars are highly variable active galactic nuclei which emit radiation at all wavelengths from radio to gamma-rays. Polarized radiation from blazars is one key piece of evidence for synchrotron radiation at low energies and it also varies…

We model the kiloparsec-scale synchrotron emission from jets in 10 Fanaroff-Riley Class I radio galaxies for which we have sensitive, high-resolution imaging and polarimetry from the Very Large Array. We assume that the jets are…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 R. A. Laing , A. H. Bridle

A very detailed monitoring of a radio flare in the Seyfert I galaxy III Zw 2 with the VLA and the VLBA is presented. The relative astrometry in the VLBA observations was precise on a level of a few microarcseconds. Spectral and spatial…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 A. Brunthaler , H. Falcke , G. C. Bower , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , H. Teraesranta

We have been performing daily observations of bright microquasars at 1.2-20~GHz with the Northern sector of RATAN-600 radio telescope for more than ten years. During the 2019--2021 observations we recorded bright flares, which we call giant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-23 S. A. Trushkin , A. V. Shevchenko , N. N. Bursov , P. G. Tsybulev , N. A. Nizhel'skii , A. N. Borisov , A. A. Kudryashova

We present the results of extensive multi-waveband monitoring of the blazar 3C~279 between 1996 and 2007 at X-ray energies (2-10 keV), optical R band, and 14.5 GHz, as well as imaging with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at 43 GHz. In…

We review the main topics in the field of blazar multiwavelength variability as a tool to understand the physics and structure of extragalactic jets and their central engine. We address issues such as the cross-correlation between flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-17 Claudia M. Raiteri

Blazars radiate from radio through gamma-ray frequencies thereby being ideal targets for multifrequency studies. Such studies allow constraining the properties of the emitting jet. 3C 279 is among the most notable blazars and therefore…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-11-23 Eugenio Bottacini , Markus Boettcher , Elena Pian , Werner Collmar

The blazar 3C 279 exhibited a giant $\gamma$-ray outburst in 2013 December and 2014 April. Apart from the very fast $\gamma$-ray flux variability, the spectral nature of the flares were also found to vary significantly between these two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-18 Vaidehi S. Paliya , Chris Diltz , Markus Bottcher , C. S. Stalin , David Buckley

Bright and fast gamma-ray flares with hard spectra have been recently detected from the blazar 3C 279, with apparent GeV luminosities up to $10^{49}$ erg/s. The source is observed to flicker on timescales of minutes with no comparable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 V. Vittorini , M. Tavani , A. Cavaliere

We consider the emission processes in the large-scale jets of powerful quasars based on the results obtained with the VLA, Spitzer, Hubble, and Chandra. We show that two well-known jets, 3C 273 and PKS 1136-135, have two distinct spectral…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-10 Yasunobu Uchiyama

Jets in blazars are an excellent forum for studying acceleration at relativistic shocks using the highly-variable emission seen across the electromagnetic spectrum. Our recent work on combining multi-wavelength leptonic emission models with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-01 Matthew G. Baring , Markus Boettcher

We present results of long-term daily monitoring of a sample of Galactic radio-emitting X-ray binaries showing relativistic jets (RJXRB): SS433, Cyg X-3, and GRS 1915+105, with the RATAN-600 radio telescope in the 0.6-22 GHz range. We…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. A. Trushkin , E. K. Majorova , N. N. Bursov

We present optical and near-IR linear polarimetry of V404 Cyg during its 2015 outburst and in quiescence. We obtained time resolved r'-band polarimetry when the source was in outburst, near-IR polarimetry when the source was near quiescence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-08 T. Shahbaz , D. M. Russell , S. Covino , K. Mooley , R. P. Fender , C. Rumsey

This paper is a brief review of the processes responsible for X-ray emission from radio jets, lobes and hot spots. Possible photons in inverse Compton scattering models include the radio synchrotron radiation itself (i.e. synchrotron…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Andrew S. Wilson

The origin of astrophysical neutrinos is one of the most debated topics today. Perhaps the most robust evidence of neutrino counterpart comes from supermassive black holes in active galactic nuclei associated with strongly collimated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-06-28 Karri I. I. Koljonen , Konstancja Satalecka , Elina J. Lindfors , Ioannis Liodakis

We find that energy losses due to synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) emission in blazar jets can produce distinctive signatures in the time-averaged synchrotron and SSC spectra of these objects. For a fairly broad range of particle injection…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 James Chiang , Markus Boettcher

Sagittarius A$^*$ in the Galactic center harbors a supermassive black hole and exhibits various active phenomena. Besides quiescent emission in radio and submillimeter radiation, flares in the near infrared (NIR) and X-ray bands are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Masaaki Kusunose , Fumio Takahara

The new results of the evolution of the synchrotron peak for Mrk 421 are mostly likely related to the particle acceleration process. In order to account for the above results, we present a model of blazar variability during the flare in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Jiancheng Wang , Jirong Mao

Thanks to aggressive campaigns of multi-wavelength observations of X-ray binaries in outbursts over the last decade or so, we have now reached a reasonable understanding of their radio phenomenology in response to changes in the global…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 Elena Gallo