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We analyzed 19 years of $R$-band data of the blazar 3C 454.3 from the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) archive, along with new data from its members and from public archives such as those provided by the Small and Moderate Aperture…

Based on the long-term light curves collected from the Catalina Sky Survey (CSS) (from 2005 to 2013) and the All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-SN) (from 2014 to 2018), optical quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) about 300 days…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-17 Qi Zheng , Xueguang Zhang , Qirong Yuan

In this work, we explore the long-term variability properties of the blazar PKS 0219-164 in the radio and the $\gamma$-ray regime, utilizing the OVRO 15 GHz and the \fermi/LAT observations from the period 2008--2017. We found that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Gopal Bhatta

The availability of about a decade of uninterrupted sky monitoring by the Fermi satellite has made possible to study long-term quasi-periodicities for high-energy sources. It is therefore not a surprise that for several blazars in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Stefano Covino , Angela Sandrinelli , Aldo Treves

This study explores transient quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the $\gamma$-ray emission of two blazars, PMN J0531$-$4827 and PKS 1502+106, using over a decade of Fermi Large Area Telescope observations. The analysis focuses on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-20 P. Penil , J. Otero-Santos , A. Banerjee , S. Buson , A. Rico , M. Ajello , S. Adhikari

We report the detection ($>4\sigma$) of a Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) in the $\gamma$-ray light curve of 3C 454.3 along with a simultaneous marginal QPO detection ($>2.4\sigma$) in the optical light curves. Periodic flux modulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-23 Arkadipta Sarkar , Alok C. Gupta , Varsha R. Chitnis , Paul J. Wiita

We perform a systematic search of quasi-periodic variabilities in $\gamma$-ray active galactic nuclei (AGNs) in the third \emph{Fermi} Large Area Telescope source catalog (3FGL). We employe two techniques, Lomb-Scargle Periodogram (LSP) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-25 Pengfei Zhang , Dahai Yan , Jianeng Zhou , Jiancheng Wang , Li Zhang

We withdraw our claim that a component in an XMM-Newton satellite light curve of the BL Lacertae object S5 0716 + 714 shows quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) of $\sim$30 minutes. Although both our original periodogram and wavelet analyses…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2009-09-08 Alok C. Gupta , Paul J. Wiita , Jeewan C. Pandey , A. K. Srivastava

We examine lengthy radio light curves of the flat spectrum radio galaxy 3C 454.3 for possible quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs). The data used in this work were collected at five radio frequencies, 4.8, 8.0, 14.5, 22.0, and 37.0 GHz…

Blazars can be divided into two subtypes, flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and BL Lac objects, which have been distinguished phenomenologically by the strength of their optical emission lines, while their physical nature and relationship…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Makoto Uemura , Taisei Abe , Yurika Yamada , Shiro Ikeda

Search for periodic signals from blazars has become widely discussed topic in recent years. In the scenario that such periodic changes originate from the innermost regions of blazars, the signals bear imprints of the processes occurring…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-03 Gopal Bhatta

Using the 1.56m telescope at the Shanghai Observatory (ShAO), China, we monitored two sources, BL Lac object S5 0716+714 and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) 3C 273. For S5 0716+714, we report 4969 sets of CCD (Charge-coupled Device)…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-09-06 Yu-Hai Yuan , Jun-hui Fan , Jun Tao , Bo-Chen Qian , Denise Costantin , Hu-Bing Xiao , Zhi-Yuan Pei , Chao Lin

We present an extensive analysis of the multi-wavelength data of the low-synchrotron-peaked BL Lac object CGRaBS J0211+1051, which has been gathered over more than ten years with many observatories. Two major gamma-ray flares have been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-14 Sunil Chandra , Pankaj Kushwaha , Pranjupriya Goswami , Michael Zacharias

Stirling et al. (2003) reported the discovery of a 2.3 year periodic variation in the structural position angle of the parsec-scale radio core of the blazar BL Lac. We searched for independent confirmation of this periodic behavior using 43…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. L. Mutel , G. R. Denn

Using an unprecedented cadence of 30 minutes provided by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), we have examined the optical light curves (LCs) of the blazar S5 0716+714 obtained from its Sectors 40, 47, and 53 over a period of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Shubham Kishore , Alok C. Gupta , Paul J. Wiita

Blazars are a sub-population of quasars whose jets are nearly aligned with the line-of-sight, which tend to exhibit multi-wavelength variability on a variety of timescales. Quasi-periodic variability on year-like timescales has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-05 A. Miguel Holgado , Alberto Sesana , Angela Sandrinelli , Stefano Covino , Aldo Treves , Xin Liu , Paul Ricker

We present the results of photometric observations of three TeV blazars, 3C 66A, S5 0954+658 and BL Lacertae, during the period 2013--2017. Our extensive observations were performed in a total of 360 nights which produced $\sim$6820 image…

We systematically search for quasiperiodic oscillatory (QPO) signals on the month timescale among the 1525 sources given in the Fermi Large Area Telescope Light Curve Repository. We find a transient QPO of 31.3$\pm$1.8 days in the gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Junping Chen , Tingfeng Yi , Yunlu Gong , Xing Yang , Zhihui Chen , Xin Chang , Lisheng Mao

We reported the result of long term optical variability of the blazar 4C 29.45 (QSO 1156+295, Ton 599), carried out optical photometric observations in Johnson V, Cousins RI passbands during April 1997 to March 2002 using the 1.56 meter…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 J. H. Fan , J. Tao , B. C. Qian , A. C. Gupta , Y. Liu , Y. H. Yuan , J. H. Yang , H. G. Wang , Y. Huang

To search for optical variability on a wide range of timescales, we have carried out photometric monitoring of 3C 454.3, 3C 279 and S5 0716+714. CCD magnitudes in B, V, R and I pass-bands were determined for $\sim$ 7000 new optical…

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