Radio Galaxies at TeV Energies
It is common believe that the centers of all galaxies exhibit supermassive black holes with masses ranging from millions up to billions of the mass of our Sun. By accreting surrounding matter, the luminosity of these galactic nuclei can outshine the emission of their host galaxies. If this is the ca...
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Glawion, Dorit auth Radio Galaxies at TeV Energies MDPI - Multidisciplinary Digital Publishing Institute 2020 1 electronic resource (188 p.) text txt rdacontent computer c rdamedia online resource cr rdacarrier It is common believe that the centers of all galaxies exhibit supermassive black holes with masses ranging from millions up to billions of the mass of our Sun. By accreting surrounding matter, the luminosity of these galactic nuclei can outshine the emission of their host galaxies. If this is the case, they are called active galactic nuclei. Some of these objects eject powerful outflows composed of plasma, called jets. These jets can produce non-thermal radiation which observable across the entire electromagnetic spectrum from radio up to the gamma-ray frequencies. At highest frequencies (TeV range) most of the detected active galaxies have jets directed along or close to the line of sight. However, also galaxies with larger angles to the line of sight showing fascinating features were discovered, in seeming contradiction to traditional models for these so-called radio galaxies. Thus, the latter are of particular importance for understanding active galactic nuclei in general. This Special Issue contains reviews and research articles about the current knowledge of radio galaxies at TeV energies, including observational results and theoretical models. It is intended to guide the interested reader deeper into this fascinating discipline of modern day astronomy. English radiation mechanisms: non-thermal emission: non-thermal 3C 84 radio galaxies TeV ?-rays X-rays: binaries general relativity jets Centaurus A light curve particle acceleration galaxies: active discrete correlation function relativistic processes ISM: jets and outflows VLBA origin: jet stars: black holes GeV ?-rays galaxies: jets magnetohydrodynamics active galactic nuclei radio galaxy origin: black hole TeV emission radio interferometry gamma-rays gamma-rays: observation gamma-rays: theory active galactic nucleus 3-03928-750-8 |
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