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Blazars are active galactic nuclei known for their extreme variability, offering unique opportunities to study jet physics and high-energy emission mechanisms. In 2024, the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) OP313 underwent a remarkable…

The BL Lacertae (BL Lac) object OJ 287 is one of the most dynamic blazars across the directly accessible observational windows: spectral, timing, polarization, and imaging. Apart from behaviors considered characteristics of blazars, it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-01 Pankaj Kushwaha

This paper reports X-ray spectral observations of a relatively nearby z = 0.048 BL Lacertae (BL Lac) object 1ES1959+650, which is a potential TeV emitter. The observations include 31 short pointings made by the Unconventional Stellar Aspect…

Active galactic nuclei come in many varieties. A minority of them are radio-loud, and exhibit two opposite prominent plasma jets extending from the proximity of the supermassive black hole up to megaparsec distances. When one of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-14 Claudia M. Raiteri , Massimo Villata

We present a detailed investigation of the flaring activity observed from a BL Lac object, S5 0716+714 , during its brightest ever optical state in the second half of January 2015. Observed almost simultaneously in the optical, X-rays and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-26 Sunil Chandra , Haocheng Zhang , Pankaj Kushwaha , K. P. Singh , M. Bottcher , Navpreet Kaur , K. S. Baliyan

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are extragalactic radio transients with millisecond duration and extremely high brightness temperature. Very recently, some highly circularly polarized bursts were found in a repeater, FRB 20201124A. The significant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Ze-Nan Liu , Wei-Yang Wang , Yuan-Pei Yang , Zi-Gao Dai

Near--infrared, optical and ultraviolet quasi--simultaneous observations of 11 BL Lacertae objects are reported. For all but one source the dereddened spectral flux distribution in the $8\cdot10^{13}-2\cdot10^{15}$ Hz frequency range can be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 E. Pian , R. Falomo , R. Scarpa , A. Treves

The variation mechanism of blazars is a long standing open question. The polarization observation can provide us with more information to constrain models. In this work, we collect the long term multi-wavelength data of AO 0235+164, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Yifan Wang , Yunguo Jiang

We have organized an extensive multiwavelength campaign on BL Lacertae in the second half of 2000. Simultaneous or quasi-simultaneous observations were taken at radio frequencies, in the optical - carried out by the WEBT collaboration -, in…

Blazars are among the most powerful extragalactic objects, as a sub-class of active galactic nuclei. They launch relativistic jets and their emitted radiation shows strong variability across the entire electro-magnetic spectrum. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 C. M. Fromm , L. Fuhrmann , M. Perucho

Using the sample of radio selected BL Lacertae objects (RBLs) and X-ray selected BL Lacertae objects (XBLs) presented by Sambruna et al. (1996), we calculated the luminosities of radio, optical and X-ray of each source and made the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. C. Mei , L. Zhang , Z. J. Jiang , B. Z. Dai

To search for optical variability on a wide range of timescales, we have carried out photometric monitoring of two flat spectrum radio quasars, 3C 454.3 and 3C 279, plus one BL Lac, S5 0716+714, all of which have been exhibiting remarkably…

Polarized radiation from blazars is one key piece of evidence for synchrotron radiation at low energy, which also shows variations. We present here our results on the correlation analysis between optical flux and polarization degree (PD)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-28 Bhoomika Rajput , Ashwani Pandey , C. S. Stalin , Blesson Mathew

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

We present the results of our power spectral analysis for the BL Lac object PKS 0735+178 utilizing the Fermi-LAT survey at high-energy $\gamma$-rays, several ground-based optical telescopes, and single-dish radio telescopes operating at GHz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-22 Arti Goyal , Lukasz Stawarz , Michal Ostrowski , Valeri Larionov , Gopal-Krishna , Paul J. Wiita , Santosh Joshi , Marian Soida , Ivan Agudo

Due to the first results on astrophysical X-ray polarization provided by \textit{IXPE} observatory, the interest in wavelength-dependent synchrotron polarization of BL Lac type objects increases. This paper presents the results of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-16 Elena Shablovinskaya , Eugene Malygin , Dmitry Oparin

Here we report our recent results of variability studies in optical and X-ray bands of three blazars namely 3C 273, PKS 2155 - 304 and BL Lacertae with XMM-Newton. We found large amplitude optical to X-rays variability in 3C 273, and PKS…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 A. C. Gupta

We present X-ray observations of the BL Lacertae (BL Lac) object Markarian 501 (Mrk 501), taken with the Rossi X-ray Timing Explorer in 1998 May as part of a multi-wavelength campaign. The X-ray light curve shows a very rapid flare in which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Michael Catanese , Rita M. Sambruna

The time scales of variability in active M dwarfs can be related to their various physical parameters. Thus, it is important to understand such variability to decipher the physics of these objects. In this study, we have performed the low…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-08-02 Vipin Kumar , A. S. Rajpurohit , Mudit K. Srivastava , José G. Fernández-Trincado , A. B. A. Queiroz

\textbf{B}lue \textbf{L}arge \textbf{A}mplitude \textbf{P}ulsators (BLAPs) are a type of variable star that has been identified relatively recently. They are characterized by their large amplitude, high gravity, and long periods (2-75…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-28 Tao Wu , Yan Li