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We report on the extreme behaviour of the high redshift blazar GB B1428+4217 at z=4.72. A continued programme of radio measurements has revealed an exceptional flare in the lightcurve, with the 15.2 GHz flux density rising by a factor ~3…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-17 M. A. Worsley , A. C. Fabian , G. G. Pooley , C. J. Chandler

LRLL 54361 is an infrared source located in the star forming region IC 348 SW. Remarkably, its infrared luminosity increases by a factor of 10 during roughly one week every 25.34 days. To understand the origin of these remarkable periodic…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-11-18 Jan Forbrich , Luis F. Rodríguez , Aina Palau , Luis A. Zapata , James Muzerolle , Robert A. Gutermuth

Condensate clouds strongly impact the spectra of brown dwarfs and exoplanets. Recent discoveries of variable L/T transition dwarfs argued for patchy clouds in at least some ultracool atmospheres. This study aims to measure the frequency and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-18 Esther Buenzli , Daniel Apai , Jacqueline Radigan , I. Neill Reid , Davin Flateau

We analyzed 64 radio observations at the frequency of 8.4 GHz of the Wolf-Rayet star WR 112, taken from the Very Large Array archive. These observations cover a time baseline of 13 years, from June 2000 to July 2013. The radio structure of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2014-09-24 J. O. Yam , S. A. Dzib , L. F. Rodríguez , V. Rodríguez-Gómez

We report on the first dedicated monitoring campaign of spectroscopic variability in young brown dwarfs. High-resolution optical spectra of six targets in nearby star-forming regions were obtained over 11 nights between 2005 January-March…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Alexander Scholz , Ray Jayawardhana

We present here optical I-band photometric variability study down to $\simeq$ 19 mag of a young ($\sim$2-3 Myr) star-forming region IC 348 in the Perseus molecular cloud. We aim to explore the fast rotation (in the time-scales of hours) in…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2020-11-25 Samrat Ghosh , Soumen Mondal , Somnath Dutta , Ramkrishna Das , Santosh Joshi , Sneh Lata , Dhrimadri Khata , Alik Panja

The substellar triple system VHS J125601.92$-$125723.9 is composed by an equal-mass M7.5 brown dwarf binary and a L7 low-mass substellar object. In this work, we aim to identify the origin of the radio emission occurring in the central…

A large radio outburst from Sgr A* was observed during the VLA weekly monitoring program at 2 cm, 1.3 cm and 7 mm, nearly coincident with the brightest X-ray flare detected to date with the XMM-Newton X-ray Observatory on 2002-10-03. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jun-Hui Zhao , R. M. Herrnstein , G. C. Bower , W. M. Goss , S. M. Liu

We have monitored photometrically the Y0 brown dwarf WISEP J173835.52+273258.9 (W1738) at both near- and mid-infrared wavelengths. This ~1 Gyr-old 400K dwarf is at a distance of 8pc and has a mass around 5 M_Jupiter. We observed W1738 using…

Ultracool dwarfs, the least-massive contributors to the stellar mass function, exhibit striking magnetic properties that are inconsistent with trends for more massive stars. Here, we present the widest-band radio observations to date of an…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 V. Ravi , G. Hallinan , G. Hobbs , D. J. Champion

We have carried out multi-epoch, time-series differential I-band photometry of a large sample of objects in the south-east region of the young (~3 Myr), nearby (~350 pc) sigma Orionis open cluster. A field of ~1000 arcmin^2 was monitored…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Caballero , V. J. S. Bejar , R. Rebolo , M. R. Zapatero Osorio

Young stellar objects are known to exhibit strong radio variability on timescales of weeks to months, and a few reports have documented extreme radio flares, with at least an order of magnitude change in flux density on timescales of hours…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Jan Forbrich , Mark J. Reid , Karl M. Menten , Victor Rivilla , Scott J. Wolk , Urvashi Rau , Claire J. Chandler

The low-luminosity active galactic nucleus of M81 has been monitored at centimeter wavelengths since early 1993 as a by-product of radio programs to study the radio emission from Supernova 1993J. The extensive data sets reveal that the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Luis C. Ho , Schuyler D. Van Dyk , Guy G. Pooley , Richard A. Sramek , Kurt W. Weiler

We report the presence of a 106-day cycle in the radio variability of Sgr A* based on an analysis of data observed with the Very Large Array (VLA) over the past 20 years. The pulsed signal is most clearly seen at 1.3 cm with a ratio of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Jun-Hui Zhao , G. C. Bower , W. M. Goss

In this work, I have presented a multi-frequency variability and correlation study of the blazar Ton 599, which was observed first time in flaring state at the end of 2017. Data from \textit{Fermi}-LAT, Swift-XRT/UVOT, Steward Observatory,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Raj Prince

We performed a long-term optical (B, V, R bands), infra-red (J and K bands) and radio band (15, 22, 37 GHz band) study on the flat spectrum radio quasar, 3C 454.3, using the data collected over a period of more than 8 years (MJD…

Fast radio burst (FRB) source 20180916B exhibits a 16.33-day periodicity in its burst activity. It is as of yet unclear what proposed mechanism produces the activity, but polarization information is a key diagnostic. Here, we report on the…

Models of brown dwarf atmospheres suggest they exhibit complex physical behaviour. Observations have shown that they are indeed dynamic, displaying small photometric variations over timescales of hours. Here I report results of infrared…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 C. A. L. Bailer-Jones

Among active galactic nuclei, blazars show extreme variability properties. We here investigate the case of the BL Lac object S4 0954+65 with data acquired in 2019-2020 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and by the Whole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 C. M. Raiteri , M. Villata , V. M. Larionov , S. G. Jorstad , A. P. Marscher , Z. R. Weaver