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The SDSS-III BOSS Quasar survey will attempt to observe z>2.15 quasars at a density of at least 15 per square degree to yield the first measurement of the Baryon Acoustic Oscillations in the Ly-alpha forest. To help reaching this goal, we…

High redshift blazars are among the most powerful non-explosive sources in the Universe and play a crucial role in understanding the evolution of relativistic jets. To understand these bright objects, we performed a detailed investigation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 N. Sahakyan , G. Harutyunyan , S. Gasparyan , D. Israyelyan

$\it{Context.}$ Various high-energy phenomena in the Universe are associated with blazars, powerful active galaxies with jets pointing to the observer. Novel results relating blazars to high-energy neutrinos, cosmic rays, and even possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-06-19 Maria Kudenko , Sergey Troitsky

We present results from a radio survey for variable and transient sources on 15-min timescales, using the Australian SKA Pathfinder (ASKAP) pilot surveys. The pilot surveys consist of 505 h of observations conducted at around 1 GHz…

We report the results of $g-$, $r-$, and $i-$dropout selections based on optical identifications of Very Large Array Sky Survey (VLASS) radio sources using the Hyper Suprime-Cam Subaru Strategic Program survey (HSC--SSP). By positional…

Despite the fact that blazars constitute the rarest class among active galactic nuclei (AGNs) they are the largest known population of associated $\gamma$-ray sources. Many of the $\gamma$-ray objects listed in the Fermi-Large Area…

We perform a blind search for the variability of the gamma-ray sky in the energy range E>1 GeV using 308 weeks of the Fermi-LAT data. We use the technique based on the comparison of the weekly photon counts and exposures in sky pixels by…

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We obtained optical spectra of four objects identified with variable radio sources. Three objects (0029+0554, 0400+0550, 2245+0500) were found to be quasars with redshifts of 1.314, 0.761, and 1.091. One object (2349+0534) has a continuum…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 V. Chavushyan , R. Mujica , A. G. Gorshkov , V. K. Konnikova , M. G. Mingaliev

Context. We present the light curves of six BL Lac objects, PKS 0537-441, PKS 0735+17, OJ 287, PKS 2005-489, PKS 2155-304, W Comae, and of the flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1510-089, as a part of a photometric monitoring program in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Angela Sandrinelli , Stefano Covino , Aldo Treves

The discovery of variable and transient sources is an essential product of synoptic surveys. The alert stream will require filtering for personalized criteria -- a process managed by a functionality commonly described as a Broker. In order…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-22 Stephen T. Ridgway , Thomas Matheson , Kenneth J. Mighell , Knut A. Olsen , Steve B. Howell

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is currently the most important facility for investigating the GeV $\gamma$-ray sky. With Fermi LAT more than three thousand $\gamma$-ray sources have been discovered so far. 1144 ($\sim40\%$) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 G. Chiaro , D. Salvetti , G. La Mura , M. Giroletti , D. J. Thompson , D. Bastieri

We search a sample of 5,685,060 isolated sources in the All Sky Automated Survey for SuperNovae (ASAS-SN) with 14.5<g<15 mag for slowly varying sources with brightness changes larger than ~0.03 mag/year over 10 years. We find 426…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-11-06 Sydney Petz , C. S. Kochanek , K. Z. Stanek , Benjamin J. Shappee , Subo Dong , J. L. Prieto , Todd A. Thompson

Here we present the first optical photometric monitoring results of a sample of twelve newly discovered blazars from the ICRF - Gaia CRF astrometric link. The observations were performed from April 2013 until August 2019 using eight…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-26 Miljana D. Jovanovic , Goran Damljanovic , Francois Taris , Alok C. Gupta , Gopal Bhatta

A sample of 123 radio sources that exhibit significant variations at 1.4 GHz on a seven year base-line has been created using FIRST VLA B-array data from 1995 and 2002 on a strip at dec=0 near the south Galactic cap. This sample spans the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. H. de Vries , R. H. Becker , R. L. White , D. J. Helfand

We present an analysis of quasar variability from data collected during a photometric monitoring of 50 objects carried out at CNPq/Laboratorio Nacional de Astrofisica, Brazil, between March 1993 and July 1996. A distinctive feature of this…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 A. Garcia , L. Sodre , F. J. Jablonski , R. J. Terlevich

Time-variable polarization is an extremely valuable observational tool to probe the dynamical physical conditions of blazar jets. Since 2008, we have been monitoring the flux and linear polarization of a sample of gamma-ray bright blazars…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-04 Alan P. Marscher , Svetlana G. Jorstad

Blazars, one of the most extreme class of active galaxies, constitute so far the largest known population of $\gamma$-ray sources and their number is continuously growing in the Fermi catalogs. However in the latest release of the Fermi…

Decade-long monitoring of blazars at optical and infrared (OIR) wavelengths with the Small and Moderate Aperture Research Telescope System (SMARTS) in Chile and in $\gamma$-rays with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) has enabled the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 M. Polkas , M. Petropoulou , G. Vasilopoulos , A. Mastichiadis , M. C. Urry , P. Coppi , C. Bailyn

The \textit{Herschel} Astrophysical Terahertz Large Area Survey (H-ATLAS), that has covered about 642 sq. deg. in 5 bands from 100 to 500 $\mu\rm m$, allows a blind flux-limited selection of blazars at sub-mm wavelengths. However, blazars…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-05-25 M. Massardi , M. Bonato , M. Lopez-Caniego , V. Galluzzi , G. De Zotti , L. Bonavera , J. Gonzalez-Nuevo , A. Lapi , E. Liuzzo