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We present Fermi-LAT and multi-frequency, multi-epoch VLBA data for the TeV blazar Mrk421. We collected the data during a long and intensive multi-frequency campaign in 2011. We study the gamma-ray light curve, the photon index evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Giroletti , F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , D. Paneque , R. Lico , G. Giovannini , J. L. Gómez , S. Jorstad , A. Marscher

The observations of TeV blazars published recently show an unexpected quadratic or even cubic correlation between the X-ray and gamma-ray emission. A standard model of the synchrotron self-Compton emission of a compact source inside a jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 K. Katarzynski , K. Walczewska

We report a detailed analysis of $\gamma$-ray data of 2FGL J0509.9+1802 observed by the Large Area Telescope on board {\it Fermi} satellite, especially focusing on April 2013 when extraordinary $\gamma$-ray variability has been detected.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 N. H. Liao , J. M Bai

We present the results of the power spectral density (PSD) analysis for the blazars Mrk\,421 and PKS\,2155$-$304, using good-quality, densely sampled light curves at multiple frequencies, covering 17 decades of the electromagnetic spectrum,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Arti Goyal

Since the first TeV blazar Markarian (Mrk) 421 was detected in 1992, the number of established TeV gamma-ray emitting BL Lac objects has grown to 6, with redshifts ranging from 0.031 (Mrk 421) to 0.129 (H 1426+428). The intensive study of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Henric Krawczynski

We present results of variability study of a sample of 20 powerful blazars using Fermi/LAT (0.1--300 GeV) observations. We studied decade-long observations applying various analysis tools such as flux distribution, symmetry analysis, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-27 Gopal Bhatta , Niraj Dhital

Magnetically-driven non-stationary acceleration of jets in AGNs results in the leading parts of the flow been accelerated to much higher Lorentz factors than in the case of steady state acceleration with the same parameters. The higher…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-20 Maxim Lyutikov , Matthew Lister

Blazars show rapid and violent variabilities, which timescale are often less than a day. We studied intraday variations by applying a shot analysis technique to Kepler monitoring of blazar W2R 1926+42 in Quarter 14. We obtained a mean…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-10 M. Sasada , S. Mineshige , S. Yamada , H. Negoro

We have calculated variability Doppler boosting factors, Lorentz factors, and viewing angles for a large sample of sources by using total flux density observations at 22 and 37 GHz and VLBI data. We decomposed the flux curves into…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 T. Hovatta , E. Valtaoja , M. Tornikoski , A. Lähteenmäki

High-redshift blazars are one of the most powerful monsters in the universe and $\gamma$-ray variability carries crucial information of their relativistic jets. In this work we present results of the first systematical temporal analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Shang Li , Zi-Qing Xia , Yun-Feng Liang , Neng-Hui Liao , Yi-Zhong Fan

Recent observations in the TeV band challenge the simplest models developed to describe the overall emission of blazars and radiogalaxies. In particular, the observation of variable TeV emission from M87 and the fast variability shown by…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini

The high-frequency peaked BL Lac PKS 2155-304 at redshift z=0.116 is a well-known VHE (>100 GeV) gamma-ray emitter. Since 2002 its VHE flux has been monitored using the H.E.S.S. stereoscopic array of imaging atmospheric-Cherenkov telescopes…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-10 F. Aharonian

Multi-wavelength observations with TeV photons are an essential diagnostic tool to study the physics of TeV sources. The complex variability of blazars, however (timescales from years down to minutes, with different patterns and SED…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 L. Costamante

We have observed the high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object PKS2155-304 in 2004, 2005 and 2006 with the CANGAROO-III imaging atmospheric Cherenkov telescope, and have detected a signal above 660 GeV at the 4.8/sigma level during the 2006…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 K. Nishijima , Y. Sakamoto , J. Kushida , K. Saito

Relativistic effects dominate the emission of blazar jets complicating our understanding of their intrinsic properties. Although many methods have been proposed to account for them, the variability Doppler factor method has been shown to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 I. Liodakis , T. Hovatta , D. Huppenkothen , S. Kiehlmann , W. Max-Moerbeck , A. C. S. Readhead

A detailed analysis of the optical polarimetric variability of the TeV blazar 1ES 1959+650 from 2007 October 18 to 2011 May 5 is presented. The source showed a maximum and minimum brightness states in the R-band of 14.08$\pm$0.03 mag and…

The origin of extremely fast variability is one of the long-standing questions in the gamma-ray astronomy of blazars. While many models explain the slower, lower energy variability, they cannot easily account for such fast flares reaching…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-18 J. Jormanainen , T. Hovatta , I. M. Christie , E. Lindfors , M. Petropoulou , I. Liodakis

Here we report on the detailed analysis of the gamma-ray light curve of a luminous blazar PKS1510-089 observed in the GeV range with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi satellite during the period 2011 September -- December. By…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 S. Saito , L. Stawarz , Y. T. Tanaka , T. Takahashi , G. Madejski , F. D'Ammando

This paper presents the results of a detailed timing and spectral analysis of the TeV-detected blazar 1ES 1218+304, focused on the observations performed with the different instruments onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-22 B. Kapanadze , A. Gurchumelia , M. Aller

We consider the 1.5 years Fermi Large Area Telescope light curves (E > 100 MeV) of the flat spectrum radio quasars 3C 454.3 and PKS 1510-089, which show high activity in this period of time. We characterise the duty cycle of the source by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini , G. Bonnoli , G. Ghirlanda