An optical view of BL Lacertae objects

R Falomo, E Pian, A Treves - The Astronomy and Astrophysics Review, 2014 - Springer
BL Lac objects are active nuclei, hosted in massive elliptical galaxies, the emission of which
is dominated by a relativistic jet closely aligned with the line of sight. This implies the …

The nuclear spectroscopic telescope array (NuSTAR) high-energy X-ray mission

FA Harrison, WW Craig, FE Christensen… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) mission, launched on
2012 June 13, is the first focusing high-energy X-ray telescope in orbit. NuSTAR operates in …

Blazars in the FERMI Era: The OVRO 40 m telescope monitoring program

JL Richards, W Max-Moerbeck… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space
Telescope provides an unprecedented opportunity to study gamma-ray blazars. To …

Galactic and extragalactic sources of very high energy gamma rays

D Bose, VR Chitnis, P Majumdar, A Shukla - The European Physical …, 2022 - Springer
Abstract Very high energy\(\gamma\)-rays are one of the most important messengers of the
relativistic non-thermal Universe. The major motivation of very high energy\(\gamma\)-ray …

Measurement of the extragalactic background light imprint on the spectra of the brightest blazars observed with HESS

A Abramowski, F Acero, F Aharonian… - Astronomy & …, 2013 - aanda.org
The extragalactic background light (EBL) is the diffuse radiation with the second highest
energy density in the Universe after the cosmic microwave background. The aim of this study …

Constraints on axionlike particles with HESS from the irregularity <?format ?>of the PKS energy spectrum

A Abramowski, F Acero, F Aharonian… - Physical Review D …, 2013 - APS
Axionlike particles (ALPs) are hypothetical light (sub-eV) bosons predicted in some
extensions of the Standard Model of particle physics. In astrophysical environments …

RADIATION MECHANISMS AND PHYSICAL PROPERTIES OF GeV–TeV BL Lac OBJECTS

J Zhang, EW Liang, SN Zhang… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT BL Lac objects are the best candidates to study the jet properties since their
spectral energy distributions (SEDs) are less contaminated by the emission from the …

TeV and Multi-wavelength Observations of Mrk 421 in 2006–2008

VA Acciari, E Aliu, T Arlen, T Aune… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on TeV γ-ray observations of the blazar Mrk 421 (redshift of 0.031) with the
VERITAS observatory and the Whipple 10 m Cherenkov telescope. The excellent sensitivity …

The second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources from the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis

S Abdollahi, M Ackermann, M Ajello… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We present the second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources (2FAV) detected with the Fermi
All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA), a tool that blindly searches for transients over the entire …

The NuSTAR view on hard-TeV BL Lacs

L Costamante, G Bonnoli, F Tavecchio… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Abstract Hard-TeV BL Lacs are a new type of blazars characterized by a hard intrinsic TeV
spectrum, locating the peak of their gamma-ray emission in the spectral energy distribution …