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We present a multiwavelength study of the flat-spectrum radio quasar CTA 102 during 2013-2017. We use radio-to-optical data obtained by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope, 15 GHz data from the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, 91 and 103 GHz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-12 F. D'Ammando , C. M. Raiteri , M. Villata , J. A. Acosta-Pulido , I. Agudo , A. A. Arkharov , R. Bachev , G. V. Baida , E. Benitez , G. A. Borman , W. Boschin , V. Bozhilov , M. S. Butuzova , P. Calcidese , M. I. Carnerero , D. Carosati , C. Casadio , N. Castro-Segura , W. -P. Chen , G. Damljanovic , A. Di Paola , J. Echevarria , N. V. Efimova , Sh. A. Ehgamberdiev , C. Espinosa , A. Fuentes , A. Giunta , J. L. Gomez , T. S. Grishina , M. A. Gurwell , D. Hiriart , H. Jermak , B. Jordan , S. G. Jorstad , M. Joshi , G. N. Kimeridze , E. N. Kopatskaya , K. Kuratov , O. M. Kurtanidze , S. O. Kurtanidze , A. Lahteenmaki , V. M. Larionov , E. G. Larionova , L. V. Larionova , C. Lazaro , C. S. Lin , M. P. Malmrose , A. P. Marscher , K. Matsumoto , B. McBreen , R. Michel , B. Mihov , M. Minev , D. O. Mirzaqulov , S. N. Molina , J. W. Moody , D. A. Morozova , S. V. Nazarov , A. A. Nikiforova , M. G. Nikolashvili , J. M. Ohlert , N. Okhmat , E. Ovcharov , F. Pinna , T. A. Polakis , C. Protasio , T. Pursimo , F. J. Redondo-Lorenzo , N. Rizzi , G. Rodriguez-Coira , K. Sadakane , A. C. Sadun , M. R. Samal , S. S. Savchenko , E. Semkov , L. Sigua , B. A. Skiff , L. Slavcheva-Mihova , P. S. Smith , I. A. Steele , A. Strigachev , J. Tammi , C. Thum , M. Tornikoski , Yu. V. Troitskaya , I. S. Troitsky , A. A. Vasilyev , O. Vince , T. Hovatta , S. Kiehlmann , W. Max-Moerbeck , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , T. J. Pearson , T. Mufakharov , Yu. V. Sotnikova , M. G. Mingaliev

Blazars outburst provide an opportunity to study their spectral behaviour, correlated variations, and structure of the jet. Such an unprecedented flaring activity in FSRQ CTA102, during 2016 - 2017, is used for a detailed study to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-19 Navpreet Kaur , Kiran S Baliyan

The flat spectrum radio quasar CTA 102 entered an extended period of activity from 2016 to 2017 during which several strong $\gamma$-ray flares were observed. Using Fermi large area telescope data a detailed investigation of \gray spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 N. Sahakyan

We report on broadband observations of CTA 102 ($z=1.037$) during the active states in 2016-2017. In the $\gamma$-ray band, Fermi LAT observed several prominent flares which followed a harder-when-brighter behavior: the hardest photon index…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 S. Gasparyan , N. Sahakyan , V. Baghmanyan , D. Zargaryan

Quasi-periodic fluctuations in the light curves of blazars can provide insight into the underlying emission process. This type of flux modulation hints at periodic physical processes that result in emission. CTA 102, a flat spectrum radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-15 Arkadipta Sarkar , Pankaj Kushwaha , Alok C. Gupta , Varsha R. Chitnis , Paul J. Wiita

We obtained and analyzed more than 100 hours of multicolour optical time series of the blazar CTA 102 during its 2012 and 2016 outbursts. The object reached almost 11-th mag at the end of 2016, which is perhaps the brightest blazar state…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-23 R. Bachev , V. Popov , A. Strigachev , E. Semkov , S. Ibryamov , B. Spassov , G. Latev , R. V. Muñoz Dimitrova , S. Boeva

The optical-UV and X-ray instruments on-board XMM-Ndewton provide an excellent opportunity to perform simultaneous observations of violently variable objects over a broad wavelength range. The UV and X-ray bright BL Lac object PKS 2155-304…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 Y. H. Zhang , J. M. Bai , S. N. Zhang , A. Treves , L. Maraschi , A. Celotti

The FSRQ CTA 102 (z=1.032) has been tremendously active over the last few years. During its peak activity lasting several months in late 2016 and early 2017, the gamma-ray and optical fluxes rose by up to a factor 100 above the quiescence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-21 M. Zacharias , M. Boettcher , F. Jankowsky , J. -P. Lenain , S. J. Wagner , A. Wierzcholska

We have studied long-term optical, ultraviolet (UV) and X-ray observations of OJ 287 collected with the UVOT and XRT instruments mounted on board the Swift satellite to quantify spectral and temporal variability patterns observed during…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-07 Hubert Siejkowski , Alicja Wierzcholska

We performed multifrequency multiepoch Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations of the blazar CTA 102 during its 2006 radio flare, the strongest ever reported for this source. These observations provide an excellent opportunity to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 C. M. Fromm , E. Ros , M. Perucho , T. Savolainen , P. Mimica , M. Kadler , A. P. Lobanov , M. L. Lister , Y. Y. Kovalev \and J. A. Zensus

We present long-term multiwavelength observations of blazar CTA 102 ($z=1.037$). Detailed temporal and spectral analyses of $\gamma$-ray, X-ray and UV/optical data observed by {\it Fermi}-LAT, Swift XRT, NuSTAR and Swift-UVOT over a period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-26 N. Sahakyan , D. Israyelyan , G. Harutyunyan , S. Gasparyan , V. Vardanyan , M. Khachatryan

The TeV blazar PKS 2155--304 was the subject of an intensive 2 week optical and near-infrared observing campaign in 2004 August with the CTIO 0.9m telescope. During this time, simultaneous X-ray data from RXTE were also obtained. We compare…

CTA 102 is a $\gamma$-ray bright blazar that exhibited multiple flares in observations by the Large Area Telescope on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope during the period of 2016-2018. We present results from the analysis of…

We present a multi-wavelength study of the FSRQ CTA 102 using Fermi-LAT and simultaneous Swift-XRT/UVOT observations. The Fermi-LAT telescope detected one of the brightest flares from this object during Sep, 2016 to Mar, 2017. In the 190…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Raj Prince , Gayathri Raman , Joachim Hahn , Nayantara Gupta , Pratik Majumdar

BL Lac object PKS 0735+178 showed some complex multi-wavelength variation phenomena in the previous studies, especially for its color behavior. Bluer-when-brighter, redder-when-brighter and achromatic behavior were all found to be possible…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-07-27 Yue Fang , Qihang Chen , Yan Zhang , Jianghua Wu

We discuss the results of the radio studies of the X-ray binaries with relativistic jets. We carried out a multi-frequency (1-30 GHz) daily monitoring of the radio flux variability of the microquasars SS433, GRS1915+105, and Cyg X-3 with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-25 Sergei A. Trushkin , Nikolaj A. Nizhelskij , Nikolaj N. Bursov

The flat spectrum radio quasar CTA 102 ($z = 1.032$) went through a tremendous phase of variability. Since early 2016 the gamma-ray flux level has been significantly higher than in previous years. It was topped by a four month long giant…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-03-01 Michael Zacharias , Markus Böttcher , Felix Jankowsky , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Stefan J. Wagner , Alicja Wierzcholska
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