Progress in multi-wavelength and multi-messenger observations of blazars and theoretical challenges

M Böttcher - Galaxies, 2019 - mdpi.com
This review provides an overview of recent advances in multi-wavelength and multi-
messenger observations of blazars, the current status of theoretical models for blazar …

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 …

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 …

Directional association of TeV to PeV astrophysical neutrinos with radio blazars

AV Plavin, YY Kovalev, YA Kovalev… - The Astrophysical …, 2021 - iopscience.iop.org
Recently we have shown that high-energy neutrinos above 200 TeV detected by IceCube
are produced within several parsecs in the central regions of radio-bright blazars, that is …

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 …

Diffusive shock acceleration and reconnection acceleration processes

GP Zank, P Hunana, P Mostafavi… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
Shock waves, as shown by simulations and observations, can generate high levels of
downstream vortical turbulence, including magnetic islands. We consider a combination of …

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 …

Event Horizon Telescope imaging of the archetypal blazar 3C 279 at an extreme 20 microarcsecond resolution

JY Kim, TP Krichbaum, AE Broderick… - Astronomy & …, 2020 - aanda.org
3C 279 is an archetypal blazar with a prominent radio jet that show broadband flux density
variability across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. We use an ultra-high angular …

Filamentary structures as the origin of blazar jet radio variability

A Fuentes, JL Gómez, JM Martí, M Perucho… - Nature …, 2023 - nature.com
Supermassive black holes at the centre of active galactic nuclei power some of the most
luminous objects in the Universe. Typically, very-long-baseline interferometric observations …

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 …