A Model for Magnetic Reconnection as the Origin of TeV Outbursts from NGC 1275

arXiv:2606.27680 · astro-ph.HE · Submitted 2026-06-26 · Read on arXiv

Zhen-Jie Wang, Hong-Bin Tan, Ruo-Yu Liu

astro-ph.HE

Submitted: 2026-06-26

Comments: 10 pages, 7 figures, accepted for publication in PRD

Journal ref: Phys. Rev. D 114(2026), 043003

License: http://arxiv.org/licenses/nonexclusive-distrib/1.0/

Terminology

• Core — 13× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes
• AGN — 7× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Large High Altitude Air Shower Observatory — 2× in this paper
• APEX — 1× in this paper · explained in 1 episode
• Modified Julian Date — 1× in this paper
• Trace — 1× in this paper · explained in 2 episodes

Sources

• Relativistic Jets in Active Galactic Nuclei
• Broadband multi-wavelength study of LHAASO detected AGN
• Multiple Emission Regions in Jets of Low Luminosity Active Galactic Nucleus in NGC 4278
• Hadronuclear interactions in the jet of low TeV luminosity AGN: Implications for the low-state very-high-energy gamma-ray emission
• Fast TeV variability in blazars: jets in a jet
• Reconnection-driven plasmoids in blazars: fast flares on a slow envelope
• Fast magnetic reconnection in the plasmoid-dominated regime
• Relativistic Magnetic Reconnection in Astrophysical Plasmas: A Powerful Mechanism of Nonthermal Emission
• MAGIC discovery of VHE Emission from the FSRQ PKS 1222+21
• A Tight Connection between Gamma-Ray Outbursts and Parsec-Scale Jet Activity in the Quasar 3C 454.3
• Kinematics and Excitation of the Molecular Hydrogen Accretion Disc in NGC 1275
• A wide and collimated radio jet in 3C 84 on the scale of a few hundred gravitational radii
• Fermi Discovery of Gamma-Ray Emission from NGC 1275
• Detection of very-high energy \gamma-ray emission from NGC 1275 by the MAGIC telescopes
• Contemporaneous observations of the radio galaxy NGC 1275 from radio to very high energy gamma-rays
• A Non-thermal Study of the Brightest Cluster Galaxy NGC 1275 - The Gamma-Radio Connection Over Four Decades
• Detection of two TeV gamma-ray outbursts from NGC 1275 by LHAASO
• Very High-energy Gamma-Ray Episodic Activity of Radio Galaxy NGC 1275 in 2022-2023 Measured with MACE
• Observational Evidence to Support a Dense Ambient Medium Shaping the Jet in 3C 84
• Compton-induced $\gamma$-ray Cascade Emissions in Radio Galaxy NGC 1275

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