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We put forward a scenario where blazars are classified as flat-spectrum radio quasars, BL Lacs, low synchrotron, or high synchrotron peaked objects according to a varying combination of Doppler boosted radiation from the jet, emission from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 P. Padovani , P. Giommi , G. Polenta , S. Turriziani , V. D'Elia , S. Piranomonte

Recent works have developed samples of blazars from among the Fermi-LAT unassociated sources via machine learning comparisons with known blazar samples. Continued analysis of these new blazars tests the predictions of the blazar sequence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-17 Stephen Kerby , Abraham D. Falcone

We present results from the first dedicated study in the time domain of the hard X-ray variability behavior of blazars on long timescales based on $\sim$13 years of continuous hard X-ray data in the 14-195 keV band. We use monthly-binned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Sergio Mundo , Richard Mushotzky

We revisit the blazar sequence exploiting the complete, flux limited sample of blazars with known redshift detected by the Fermi satellite after 4 years of operations (the 3LAC sample). We divide the sources into gamma-ray luminosity bins,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-31 G. Ghisellini , C. Righi , L. Costamante , F. Tavecchio

The broadband spectral energy distribution(SED) of blazars is generally interpreted as radiation arising from synchrotron and inverse Compton mechanisms.Traditionally, the underlying source parameters responsible for these emission…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-04-04 S. Sahayanathan , A. Sinha , R. Misra

We analyse 77 \textit{Fermi} sources and their potential low-energy counterparts previously proposed in the literature. These sources were classified as active galactic nuclei, mainly blazars, based on optical spectroscopy. The main goals…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-03 Alberto Ulgiati , Paolo Padovani , Paolo Giommi , Simona Paiano , Ciro Pinto

Average Spectral Energy Distributions (SED) for different subgroups of blazars are derived from available homogeneous (but small) data sets, including the gamma-ray band. Comparing Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQ) with BL Lacs extracted…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Laura Maraschi , Giovanni Fossati

We investigate the evolution of spectral energy distribution (SED) and underlying electron energy distribution (EED) by modeling the nearly simultaneous broadband spectra of selected bright 4FGL blazars, in the context of a combined cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Muhammad S. Anjum , Shu-Jin Hou , Liang Chen , Zhigang Li , Minfeng Gu

We use 3 years of data from the Swift/BAT survey to select a complete sample of X-ray blazars above 15 keV. This sample comprises 26 Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) and 12 BL Lac objects detected over a redshift range of 0.03<z<4.0. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-02-04 M. Ajello , L. Costamante , R. M. Sambruna , N. Gehrels , J. Chiang , A. Rau , A. Escala , J. Greiner , J. Tueller , J. V. Wall , R. F. Mushotzky

We present the results from a multiwavelength campaign on the TeV blazar 1ES 1959+650, performed in May, 2006. Data from the optical, UV, soft- and hard-X-ray and very high energy (VHE) gamma-ray (E > 100 GeV) bands were obtained with the…

This work is a summary of the X-ray spectral studies of 29 TeV $\gamma$-ray emitting blazars observed with Swift/XRT, especially focusing on sources for which X-ray regime allows to study the low and the high energy ends of the particle…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-28 Alicja Wierzcholska , Stefan Wagner

We construct the first X-ray selected sample of broad line radio-loud AGN from the EMSS survey. In order to test unifying schemes for radio-loud objects, their spectral and statistical properties (both flat and steep spectrum objects) are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 Anna Wolter , Annalisa Celotti

The blazar 1ES 1959+650 was observed twice by BeppoSAX in September 2001 simultaneously with optical observations. We report here the X-ray data together with the optical, R_C magnitude, light curve since August 1995. The BeppoSAX…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 G. Tagliaferri , M. Ravasio , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , P. Giommi , E. Massaro , R. Nesci , G. Tosti

Blazars host the most powerful persistent relativistic conical jet -- a highly collimated anisotropic flow of material/plasma. Motivated by this, we explore the blazar's broadband spectral energy distribution (SED) in an anisotropic flow of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-14 Nagendra Kumar , Pankaj Kushwaha

Beppo}SAX contributed substantially to our understanding of the physics of blazars. This has been made possible mainly by its wide energy range and especially by its high energy detector. Together with the information coming from still…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Gabriele Ghisellini

Blazar spectra are one of the most important windows into the physical processes occurring along jets. The spectrum, composed from the different emitting regions along the jet, allows us to constrain the physical conditions in the jet. I…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 William J. Potter , Garret Cotter

We report the multi-wavelength study for a high-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac 1ES 1218+304 using near-simultaneous data obtained during the period from January 1, 2018, to May 31, 2021 (MJD 58119-59365) from various instruments including…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-19 Rishank Diwan , Raj Prince , Aditi Agarwal , Debanjan Bose , Pratik Majumdar , Aykut Özdönmez , Sunil Chandra , Rukaiya Khatoon , Ergün Ege

Blazars are the brightest and most abundant persistent sources in the extragalactic gamma-ray sky. Due to their significance, they are often observed across various energy bands to explore potential correlations between emissions at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 P. Giommi , N. Sahakyan , D. Israyelyan , M. Manvelyan

ROSAT observations of a large sample of bright gamma-ray (E > 100 MeV) blazars are presented. Results of a detailed spectral analysis in the soft $\sim$ 0.1-2.0 keV energy range are discussed in relation to the overall energy distribution…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 A. Comastri , G. Fossati , G. Ghisellini , S. Molendi

We have studied the quasi-simultaneous Spectral Energy Distributions (SED) of 48 LBAS blazars, detected within the three months of the LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS) data taking period, combining Fermi and Swift data with radio NIR-Optical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 A. Tramacere , E. Cavazzuti , P. Giommi , N. Mazziotta , C. Monte