Relativistic jets from active galactic nuclei

R Blandford, D Meier… - Annual Review of …, 2019 - annualreviews.org
The nuclei of most normal galaxies contain supermassive black holes, which can accrete
gas through a disk and become active. These active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can form jets that …

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 …

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 …

Kinematics of parsec-scale jets of gamma-ray blazars at 43 GHz within the VLBA-BU-BLAZAR program

SG Jorstad, AP Marscher, DA Morozova… - The Astrophysical …, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
We analyze the parsec-scale jet kinematics from 2007 June to 2013 January of a sample of
γ-ray bright blazars monitored roughly monthly with the Very Long Baseline Array at 43 GHz …

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 …

Minute-timescale> 100 MeV γ-ray variability during the giant outburst of quasar 3C 279 observed by Fermi-LAT in 2015 June

M Ackermann, R Anantua, K Asano… - The Astrophysical …, 2016 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT On 2015 June 16, Fermi-LAT observed a giant outburst from the flat spectrum
radio quasar 3C 279 with a peak> 100 MeV flux of∼ 3.6× 10− 5 photons cm− 2 s− 1 …

Characterizing long-term optical variability properties of γ-Ray-bright Blazars

G Bhatta - The Astrophysical Journal, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Optical observations of a sample of 12 γ-ray-bright blazars from four optical data archives—
American Association of Variable Star Observers, Small and Moderate Aperture Research …

Rapid variability of blazar 3C 279 during flaring states in 2013− 2014 with joint Fermi-LAT, NuSTAR, Swift, and ground-based multi-wavelength observations

M Hayashida, K Nalewajko, GM Madejski… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of a multiband observing campaign on the famous blazar 3C 279
conducted during a phase of increased activity from 2013 December to 2014 April, including …

Gamma-ray flares from relativistic magnetic reconnection in the jet of the quasar 3C 279

A Shukla, K Mannheim - Nature Communications, 2020 - nature.com
Spinning black holes in the centres of galaxies can release powerful magnetised jets. When
the jets are observed at angles of less than a few degrees to the line-of-sight, they are called …

A two-zone model for blazar emission: implications for TXS 0506+ 056 and the neutrino event IceCube-170922A

R Xue, RY Liu, M Petropoulou… - The Astrophysical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
A high-energy muon neutrino event, IceCube-170922A, was recently discovered in both
spatial and temporal coincidence with a gamma-ray flare of the blazar TXS 0506+ 056. It has …