Teraelectronvolt astronomy

JA Hinton, W Hofmann - Annual Review of Astronomy and …, 2009 - annualreviews.org
Ground-based γ-ray astronomy, which provides access to the TeV energy range, is a young
and rapidly develo** discipline. Recent discoveries in this waveband have important …

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 …

Black hole flares: ejection of accreted magnetic flux through 3D plasmoid-mediated reconnection

B Ripperda, M Liska, K Chatterjee… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Magnetic reconnection can power bright, rapid flares originating from the inner
magnetosphere of accreting black holes. We conduct extremely high-resolution (5376× …

Kinematics of Parsec-scale Jets of Gamma-Ray Blazars at 43 GHz during 10 yr of the VLBA-BU-BLAZAR Program

ZR Weaver, SG Jorstad, AP Marscher… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze the parsec-scale jet kinematics from 2007 June to 2018 December of a sample
of γ-ray bright blazars monitored roughly monthly with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) …

Leptonic and hadronic modeling of Fermi-detected blazars

M Böttcher, A Reimer, K Sweeney… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We describe new implementations of leptonic and hadronic models for the broadband
emission from relativistic jets in active galactic nuclei in a temporary steady state. For the …

Relativistic reconnection: an efficient source of non-thermal particles

L Sironi, A Spitkovsky - The Astrophysical Journal Letters, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
In magnetized astrophysical outflows, the dissipation of field energy into particle energy via
magnetic reconnection is often invoked to explain the observed non-thermal signatures. By …

The birth of a relativistic jet following the disruption of a star by a cosmological black hole

DR Pasham, M Lucchini, T Laskar, BP Gompertz… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
A black hole can launch a powerful relativistic jet after it tidally disrupts a star. If this jet
fortuitously aligns with our line of sight, the overall brightness is Doppler boosted by several …

The internal-collision-induced magnetic reconnection and turbulence (ICMART) model of gamma-ray bursts

B Zhang, H Yan - The Astrophysical Journal, 2010 - iopscience.iop.org
The recent Fermi observation of GRB 080916C shows that the bright photosphere emission
associated with a putative fireball is missing, which suggests that the central engine likely …

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 …

Design concepts for the Cherenkov Telescope Array CTA: an advanced facility for ground-based high-energy gamma-ray astronomy

CTA Consortium J. Knapp@ leeds. ac. uk http … - Experimental …, 2011 - Springer
Ground-based gamma-ray astronomy has had a major breakthrough with the impressive
results obtained using systems of imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes. Ground …