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The parsec-scale radio properties of blazars detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been investigated using observations with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Comparisons between LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 J. D. Linford , G. B. Taylor , R. W. Romani , J. F. Helmboldt , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , J. L. Richards

We collect the 2LAC and MOJAVE quasi-simultaneous data to investigate the radio-gamma connection of blazars. The cross sample contains 166 sources. The statistic analysis based on this sample confirms positive correlations between these two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-03 Fan Xu-Liang , Bai Jin-Ming , Liu Hong-Tao , Chen Liang , Liao Neng-Hui

The detection of significant $\gamma$-ray emission from radio-loud narrow line Seyfert 1 (NLSy1s) galaxies enables us to study jets in environments different than those in blazars. However, due to the small number of known $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-01-23 Vaidehi S. Paliya , M. Ajello , S. Rakshit , A. Mandal , C. S. Stalin , A. Kaur , D. Hartmann

We present long term optical and near infrared flux variability analysis of 37 blazars detected in the $\gamma$-ray band by the {\it Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope}. Among them, 30 are flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 7 are BL Lac…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-28 P. Z. Safna , C. S. Stalin , Suvendu Rakshit , Blesson Mathew

We studied the optical variability of 241 BL Lacs and 83 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) from the 4LAC catalog using data from the Tomo-e Gozen Northern Sky Transient Survey, with $\sim$ 50 epochs per blazar on average. We excluded…

Radio and gamma-ray emission from active galactic nuclei (AGN) are thought to share a common origin, related to the ejection phenomena in the vicinity of supermassive black holes. Thanks to its sensitivity, surveying capability, and broad…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-29 M. Giroletti , A. Reimer , L. Fuhrmann , V. Pavlidou , J. L. Richards

We present a statistical characterization of the $\gamma$-ray emission from the four \emph{Fermi}-LAT sources: FR I radio galaxy NGC 1275, BL Lac Mrk 421, FSRQs B2 1520+31 and PKS 1510-089 detected almost continuously over a time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-09 Pankaj Kushwaha , Atreyee Sinha , Ranjeev Misra , K. P. Singh , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) and BL Lac objects detected in the first three months of the Fermi survey neatly separate in the gamma-ray spectral index vs gamma-ray luminosity plane. BL Lac objects are less luminous and have harder…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 G. Ghisellini , L. Maraschi , F. Tavecchio

Variability is one of the classic features of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). The normalized structure function was applied to distinguish variability samples from OVRO, ASAS-SN and Fermi. A power-law function model was selected to fit the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-23 Xuan Wei , Jie Tang , Yu Tao

The gamma-ray emission from Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs), a sub-class of blazars, is believed to be generated through interactions of high-energy leptons and/or hadrons in the jet with the ambient photon fields, including those from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-07 Anton Dmytriiev , Atreya Acharyya , Markus Böttcher

Machine learning has emerged as a powerful tool in the field of gamma-ray astrophysics. The algorithms can distinguish between different source types, such as blazars and pulsars, and help uncover new insights into the high-energy universe.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-05 Gopal Bhatta , Sarvesh Gharat , Abhimanyu Borthakur , Aman Kumar

We use the distributions of spectral indices of a large homogenous sample of Fermi-detected blazars to re-investigate the relationship between flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and subclasses of BL Lac objects (BL Lacs). We compute the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-20 E. U. Iyida , F. C. Odo , A. E. Chukwude , A. A. Ubachukwu

We present multiwavelength data for twelve blazars observed from 2008-2010 as part of an ongoing optical-infrared photometric monitoring project. Sources were selected to be bright, southern (dec < 20 deg) blazars observed by the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 E. W. Bonning , C. M. Urry , C. Bailyn , M. Buxton , R. Chatterjee , P. Coppi , G. Fossati , J. Isler , L. Maraschi

We examine whether Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs) and BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) can act as plausible astrophysical sources of diffuse ultra-high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs). Using realistic luminosity-dependent density evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-20 Swaraj Pratim Sarmah , Umananda Dev Goswami

Fermi-LAT LCR provide continuous and regularly-sampled gamma-ray light curves, spanning about 14 years, for a large sample of blazars. The log-normal flux distribution and linear RMS-Flux relation of the light curves for a few of Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-21 Na Wang , Ting-Feng Yi , Liang Wang , Li-Sheng Mao , Zhi-Yuan Pu , Gong-Ming Ning , Wei-Tian Huang , He Lu , Shun Zhang , Yu-Tong Chen , Liang Dong

To fully exploit the scientific potential of the Fermi mission, we initiated the F-GAMMA program. Between 2007 and 2015 it was the prime provider of complementary multi-frequency monitoring in the radio regime. We quantify the radio…

The Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory discovered about a thousand extragalactic sources emitting energy from 100 MeV to 100 GeV. The majority of these sources belong to the class of blazars characterized by a quasi-featureless optical spectrum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Marco Landoni , Aldo Treves , Riccardo Scarpa

We study the BL Lac objects detected in the one year all sky survey of the Fermi satellite, with a energy spectral slope alpha_gamma in the [0.1-100 GeV] band greater than 1.2. In the alpha_gamma vs gamma-ray luminosity plane, these BL Lacs…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , L. Foschini , G. Ghirlanda

We study the $\rm{\gamma}$-ray luminosity and beaming effect for Fermi blazars. Our results are as follows. (i) There are significant correlations between $\rm{\gamma}$-ray luminosity and radio core luminosity, and between $\rm{\gamma}$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-20 Yong-Yun Chen , Xiong Zhang , Dingrong Xiong , Si-Ju Wang , Xiaoling Yu

Aims. We use a sample of 83 core-dominated active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected from the MOJAVE (Monitoring of Jets in AGN with VLBA Experiments) radio-flux-limited sample and detected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) to study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. G. Arshakian , J. León-Tavares , M. Boettcher , J. Torrealba , V. H. Chavushyan , M. L. Lister , E. Ros , J. A. Zensus