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The X-ray mission Chandra has observed a dramatic X-ray flare -- a brightening by a factor of 50 for only three hours -- from Sgr A*, the Galactic Center supermassive black hole. Sgr A* has never shown variability of this amplitude in the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Sera Markoff , Heino Falcke , Feng Yuan , Peter L. Biermann

From a sample of GRBs detected by the $Fermi$ and $Swift$ missions, we have extracted the minimum variability time scales for temporal structures in the light curves associated with the prompt emission and X-ray flares. A comparison of this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 E. Sonbas , G. A. MacLachlan , A. Shenoy , K. S. Dhuga , W. C. Parke

We are presenting a detailed parameter study of the time-dependent electron injection and kinematics and the self-consistent radiation transport in jets of intermediate and low-frequency peaked BL Lac objects. Using a time-dependent,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Boettcher , J. Chiang

We propose a new method for investigating the evolution of the properties of the blazar brightness variability on timescales from a few hours to a few days. Its essence lies in detecting sequentially located time intervals along the entire…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-11-28 M. S. Butuzova , V. A. Guseva , M. A. Gorbachev , A. S. Krivenko , S. V. Nazarov

The near-infrared (NIR) and X-ray emission of Sagittarius A* shows occasional bright flares that are assumed to originate from the innermost region of the accretion flow. We identified $25$ $4.5 \mu m$ and $24$ X-ray flares in archival data…

Sgr A* exhibits flares in the near-infrared and X-ray bands, with the luminosity in these bands increasing by factors of $10-100$ for $\approx 60$ minutes. One of the models proposed to explain these flares is synchrotron emission of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 Nicolas Scepi , Jason Dexter , Mitchell C. Begelman

We compare the variability properties of very high energy gamma-ray emitting BL Lac objects in the optical and radio bands. We use the variability information to distinguish multiple emission components in the jet, to be used as a guidance…

In this work, we present the results of our multi-band microvariability study of the famous blazar BL Lac. We performed microvariablity observations of the source in the optical VRI bands for 4 nights in the year 2016. We studied the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-27 Gopal Bhatta , James R. Webb

We briefly review the Galactic microquasar SS 433/W50 and present a new RXTE spectral and timing study. We show that the X-ray flux decreases during radio flares, a behavior seen in other microquasars. We also find short time-scale…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Samar Safi-Harb , Taro Kotani

We report new simultaneous near-infrared/sub-millimeter/X-ray observations of the SgrA* counterpart associated with the massive 3-4x10**6 solar mass black hole at the Galactic Center. The main aim is to investigate the physical processes…

We studied the rapid variability at GeV gamma rays of the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1222+216, which was recently found by the MAGIC Cerenkov telescope to display very short variability (minutes time scale) at hundreds of GeV. We…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-02-14 L. Foschini , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , G. Bonnoli , A. Stamerra

The compact radio source Sgr\,A*, associated with the super massive black hole at the center of the Galaxy, has been studied with VLBA observations at 3 frequencies (22, 43, 86\,GHz) performed on 10 consecutive days in May 2007. The total…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-20 R. -S. Lu , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Eckart , S. König , D. ~Kunneriath , G. Witzel , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

The analysis of narrowband drifting of type III-like structures in radio bursts dynamic spectra allows to obtain unique information about primary energy release mechanisms in solar flares. The SSRT spatially resolved images and a high…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 N. S. Meshalkina , A. T. Altyntsev , D. A. Zhdanov , S. V. Lesovoi , A. A. Kochanov , Yan Yihua , Tan Chengming

This paper reports measurements of Sgr A* made with NACO in L' -band (3.80 um), Ks-band (2.12 um) and H-band (1.66 um) and with VISIR in N-band (11.88 um) at the ESO VLT, as well as with XMM-Newton at X-ray (2-10 keV) wavelengths. On 4…

We present radio continuum light curves of the magnetar SGR J1745$-$2900 and Sgr A* obtained with multi-frequency, multi-epoch Very Large Array observations between 2012 and 2014. During this period, a powerful X-ray outburst from SGR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 F. Yusef-Zadeh , R. Diesing , M. Wardle , L. O. Sjouwerman , M. Royster , W. D. Cotton , D. Roberts , C. Heinke

Significant X-ray variability and flaring has been observed from Sgr A* but is poorly understood from a theoretical standpoint. We perform GRMHD simulations that take into account a population of non-thermal electrons with energy…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-25 David Ball , Feryal Ozel , Dimitrios Psaltis , Chi-kwan Chan

We use ~12,000 spectra of ~3,500 magnetically active M0-M9 dwarfs from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey taken at 10-15 minute intervals, together with ~300 spectra of ~60 M0-M8 stars obtained hourly with the Hydra multi-object spectrometer, to…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Keaton J. Bell , Eric J. Hilton , James R. A. Davenport , Suzanne L. Hawley , Andrew A. West , Allen B. Rogel

We use a wavelet technique to investigate the time variations in the light curves from a sample of GRBs detected by Fermi and Swift. We focus primarily on the behavior of the flaring region of Swift-XRT light curves in order to explore…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-12 E. Sonbas , G. A. MacLachlan , A. Shenoy , K. S. Dhuga , W. C. Parke