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 …

Gamma-ray observations of active galactic nuclei

G Madejski, M Sikora - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2016 - annualreviews.org
This article reviews the recent observational results regarding γ-ray emission from active
galaxies. The most numerous discrete extragalactic γ-ray sources are AGNs dominated by …

A multimessenger picture of the flaring blazar TXS 0506+ 056: Implications for high-energy neutrino emission and cosmic-ray acceleration

A Keivani, K Murase, M Petropoulou… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
Detection of the IceCube-170922A neutrino coincident with the flaring blazar TXS 0506+
056, the first and only∼ 3σ high-energy neutrino source association to date, offers a …

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 …

The Swift/BAT hard X-ray transient monitor

HA Krimm, ST Holland, RHD Corbet… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT The Swift/Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) hard X-ray transient monitor provides
near real-time coverage of the X-ray sky in the energy range 15–50 keV. The BAT observes …

Dark matter and pulsar model constraints from Galactic Center<? format?> Fermi-LAT gamma-ray observations

C Gordon, O Macias - Physical Review D—Particles, Fields, Gravitation, and …, 2013 - APS
Employing Fermi-LAT gamma-ray observations, several independent groups have found
excess extended gamma-ray emission at the Galactic Center (GC). Both annihilating dark …

The second catalog of active galactic nuclei detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M Ackermann, M Ajello, A Allafort… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
The second catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Large Area
Telescope (LAT) in two years of scientific operation is presented. The second LAT AGN …

Non-thermal particle acceleration in collisionless relativistic electron–proton reconnection

GR Werner, DA Uzdensky… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
Magnetic reconnection in relativistic collisionless plasmas can accelerate particles and
power high-energy emission in various astrophysical systems. Whereas most previous …

Characterizing the gamma-ray variability of the brightest flat spectrum radio quasars observed with the Fermi LAT

M Meyer, JD Scargle, RD Blandford - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Almost 10 yr of γ-ray observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope have revealed
extreme γ-ray outbursts from flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), temporarily making these …

The luminosity function of Fermi-detected flat-spectrum radio quasars

M Ajello, MS Shaw, RW Romani… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Fermi has provided the largest sample of γ-ray-selected blazars to date. In this work we use
a complete sample of flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) detected during the first year of …