Progress in unveiling extreme particle acceleration in persistent astrophysical jets

J Biteau, E Prandini, L Costamante, M Lemoine… - Nature …, 2020 - nature.com
The most powerful persistent accelerators in the Universe are jetted active galaxies. Blazars,
galaxies whose jets are directed towards Earth, dominate the extragalactic γ-ray sky. Still …

Axion-like particles implications for high-energy astrophysics

G Galanti, M Roncadelli - Universe, 2022 - mdpi.com
We offer a pedagogical introduction to axion-like particles (ALPs) as far as their relevance
for high-energy astrophysics is concerned, from a few MeV to 1000 TeV. This review is self …

The blazar TXS 0506+ 056 associated with a high-energy neutrino: insights into extragalactic jets and cosmic-ray acceleration

S Ansoldi, LA Antonelli, C Arcaro… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
A neutrino with energy∼ 290 TeV, IceCube-170922A, was detected in coincidence with the
BL Lac object TXS 0506+ 056 during enhanced gamma-ray activity, with chance …

A hadronic origin for ultra-high-frequency-peaked BL Lac objects

M Cerruti, A Zech, C Boisson… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
Current Cherenkov telescopes have identified a population of ultra-high-frequency peaked
BL Lac objects (UHBLs), also known as extreme blazars, that exhibit exceptionally hard TeV …

The transition between BL Lac objects and flat spectrum radio quasars

G Ghisellini, F Tavecchio, L Foschini… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2011 - academic.oup.com
We study the BL Lac objects detected in the 1-year all-sky survey of the Fermi satellite, with
an energy spectral slope αγ in the 0.1–100 GeV band greater than 1.2. In the αγ versus γ-ray …

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 …

Multi-epoch modeling of TXS 0506+ 056 and implications for long-term high-energy neutrino emission

M Petropoulou, K Murase, M Santander… - The Astrophysical …, 2020 - iopscience.iop.org
The IceCube report of as~ 3.5 excess of 13± 5 neutrino events in the direction of the
blazar TXS 0506+ 056 in 2014–2015 and the 2017 detection of a high-energy neutrino …

Time delay of cascade radiation for TeV blazars and the measurement of the intergalactic magnetic field

CD Dermer, M Cavadini, S Razzaque… - The Astrophysical …, 2011 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent claims that the strength B IGMF of the intergalactic magnetic field (IGMF) is≳ 10− 15
G are based on upper limits to the expected cascade flux in the GeV band produced by …

Blazars as ultra-high-energy cosmic-ray sources: implications for TeV gamma-ray observations

K Murase, CD Dermer, H Takami… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The spectra of BL Lac objects and Fanaroff–Riley I radio galaxies are commonly explained
by the one-zone leptonic synchrotron self-Compton (SSC) model. Spectral modeling of …

[HTML][HTML] Science with e-ASTROGAM: A space mission for MeV–GeV gamma-ray astrophysics

A De Angelis, V Tatischeff, IA Grenier, J McEnery… - Journal of High Energy …, 2018 - Elsevier
Abstract e-ASTROGAM ('enhanced ASTROGAM') is a breakthrough Observatory space
mission, with a detector composed by a Silicon tracker, a calorimeter, and an …