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 …

Ultra-high-energy cosmic rays

LA Anchordoqui - Physics Reports, 2019 - Elsevier
In this report we review the important progress made in recent years towards understanding
the experimental data on ultra-high-energy (E≳ 1 0 9 GeV) cosmic rays. We begin with a …

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× …

GeV observations of star-forming galaxies with the Fermi Large Area Telescope

M Ackermann, M Ajello, A Allafort… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
Recent detections of the starburst galaxies M82 and NGC 253 by gamma-ray telescopes
suggest that galaxies rapidly forming massive stars are more luminous at gamma-ray …

Radiative reconnection-powered TeV flares from the black hole magnetosphere in M87

H Hakobyan, B Ripperda… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Active galactic nuclei in general, and the supermassive black hole in M87 in particular, show
bright and rapid gamma-ray flares up to energies of 100 GeV and above. For M87, the flares …

The first Fermi-LAT catalog of sources above 10 GeV

M Ackermann, M Ajello, A Allafort… - The Astrophysical …, 2013 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a catalog of γ-ray sources at energies above 10 GeV based on data from the
Large Area Telescope (LAT) accumulated during the first 3 yr of the Fermi Gamma-ray …

The search for spatial extension in high-latitude sources detected by the Fermi large area telescope

M Ackermann, M Ajello, L Baldini, J Ballet… - The Astrophysical …, 2018 - iopscience.iop.org
We present a search for spatial extension in high-latitude (>∣∣ b 5) sources in recent
Fermi point source catalogs. The result is the Fermi High-Latitude Extended Sources …

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 …

Fermi Large Area Telescope gamma-ray detection of the radio galaxy M87

AA Abdo, M Ackermann, M Ajello… - The Astrophysical …, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
ABSTRACT We report the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) discovery of high-energy
(MeV/GeV) γ-ray emission positionally consistent with the center of the radio galaxy M87, at …

The 2010 very high energy γ-ray flare and 10 years of multi-wavelength observations of M 87

A Abramowski, F Acero, F Aharonian… - The Astrophysical …, 2012 - iopscience.iop.org
The giant radio galaxy M 87 provides a unique environment to study relativistic plasma
outflows and the surroundings of supermassive black holes (SMBHs). Its prominent jet …