The extragalactic background light and the gamma-ray opacity of the universe

E Dwek, F Krennrich - Astroparticle Physics, 2013 - Elsevier
The extragalactic background light (EBL) is one of the fundamental observational quantities
in cosmology. All energy releases from resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources, and …

Relativistic jets of blazars

T Hovatta, E Lindfors - New Astronomy Reviews, 2019 - Elsevier
Relativistic jets of active galactic nuclei have been known to exist for 100 years. Blazars with
their jet pointing close to our line of sight are some of the most variable and extreme objects …

Polarized blazar X-rays imply particle acceleration in shocks

I Liodakis, AP Marscher, I Agudo, AV Berdyugin… - Nature, 2022 - nature.com
Most of the light from blazars, active galactic nuclei with jets of magnetized plasma that point
nearly along the line of sight, is produced by high-energy particles, up to around 1 TeV …

Fermi Large Area Telescope observations of Markarian 421: The missing piece of its spectral energy distribution

AA Abdo, M Ackermann, M Ajello… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
FERMI LARGE AREA TELESCOPE OBSERVATIONS OF MARKARIAN 421: THE MISSING
PIECE OF ITS SPECTRAL ENERGY DISTRIBUTION - IOPscience Skip to content IOP …

The origin of the extragalactic gamma-ray background and implications for dark matter annihilation

M Ajello, D Gasparrini, M Sánchez-Conde… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
The origin of the extragalactic γ-ray background (EGB) has been debated for some time. The
EGB comprises the γ-ray emission from resolved and unresolved extragalactic sources …

The extragalactic background light, the Hubble constant, and anomalies: conclusions from 20 years of TeV gamma-ray observations

J Biteau, DA Williams - The Astrophysical Journal, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Ground-based observatories have been collecting 0.2–20 TeV gamma-rays from blazars for
about twenty years. These gamma-rays can experience absorption along the line of sight …

Long-term optical monitoring of TeV emitting blazars-I. Data analysis

K Nilsson, E Lindfors, LO Takalo, R Reinthal… - Astronomy & …, 2018 - aanda.org
We present ten years of R-band monitoring data of 31 northern blazars which were either
detected at very high-energy (VHE) gamma rays or listed as potential VHE gamma-ray …

Direct detection constraints on blazar-boosted dark matter

JW Wang, A Granelli, P Ullio - Physical Review Letters, 2022 - APS
We explore the possibility that relativistic protons in the extremely powerful jets of blazars
may boost via elastic collisions the dark matter particles in the surroundings of the source to …

The imprint of the extragalactic background light in the gamma-ray spectra of blazars

M Ackermann, M Ajello, A Allafort, P Schady, L Baldini… - Science, 2012 - science.org
The light emitted by stars and accreting compact objects through the history of the universe
is encoded in the intensity of the extragalactic background light (EBL). Knowledge of the …

BASS XXXII: Studying the Nuclear Millimeter-wave Continuum Emission of AGNs with ALMA at Scales≲ 100–200 pc

T Kawamuro, C Ricci, M Imanishi… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
To understand the origin of nuclear (≲ 100 pc) millimeter-wave (mm-wave) continuum
emission in active galactic nuclei (AGNs), we systematically analyzed subarcsecond …