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This is the first report of Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope observations of the quasar 3C 454.3, which has been undergoing pronounced long-term outbursts since 2000. The data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT), covering 2008 July 7 -…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo

Violent multi-wavelength variabilities are observed in gamma-ray-selected blazars. We present an analysis of long-term light curves for eight bright blazars to explore the co-variation pattern in the gamma-ray and radio bands. We extract…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Hai-Ming Zhang , Zhen-Jie Wang , Jin Zhang , Ting-Feng Yi , Liang Chen , Rui-Jing Lu , En-Wei Liang

Among more than fifty blazars detected in very high energy (VHE, E>100GeV) gamma-rays, only three belong to the subclass of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars (FSRQs): PKS 1510-089, PKS 1222+216 and 3C 279. The detection of FSRQs in the VHE range…

In the early days of April 2010, the blazar 3C 454.3 (z=0.859) underwent a strong gamma-ray outburst, reaching fluxes (E > 100 MeV) in excess of 10^-5 ph cm^-2 s^-1. The Fermi Gamma ray Space Telescope performed a 200 ks long pointed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 L. Foschini , G. Tagliaferri , G. Ghisellini , G. Ghirlanda , F. Tavecchio , G. Bonnoli

Magnetar hyperflares are the most plausible explanation for fast radio bursts (FRB) -- enigmatic powerful radio pulses with durations of several milliseconds and high brightness temperatures. The first observational evidence for this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-05 H. E. S. S. Collaboration , : , H. Abdalla , F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , E. O. Anguner , C. Arcaro , C. Armand , T. Armstrong , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Baghmanyan , V. Barbosa Martins , A. Barnacka , M. Barnard , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernlohr , B. Bi , M. Bottcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , M. de Bony de Lavergne , M. Breuhaus , R. Brose , F. Brun , P. Brun , M. Bryan , M. Buchele , T. Bulik , T. Bylund , F. Cangemi , S. Caroff , A. Carosi , S. Casanova , P. Chambery , T. Chand , S. Chandra , A. Chen , G. Cotter , M. Cury lo , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , I. D. Davids , J. Davies , C. Deil , J. Devin , L. Dirson , A. Djannati-Ataï , A. Dmytriiev , A. Donath , V. Doroshenko , L. Dreyer , C. Duffy , L. Du Plessis , J. Dyks , K. Egberts , F. Eichhorn , S. Einecke , G. Emery , J. -P. Ernenwein , K. Feijen , S. Fegan , A. Fiasson , G. Fichet de Clairfontaine , G. Fontaine , S. Funk , M. Füßling , S. Gabici , Y. A. Gallant , S. Ghafourizade , G. Giavitto , L. Giunti , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , M. -H. Grondin , J. Hahn , M. Haupt , S. Hattingh , G. Hermann , J. A. Hinton , W. Hofmann , C. Hoischen , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , M. Horbe , D. Horns , Z. Huang , D. Huber , M. Jamrozy , D. Jankowsky , F. Jankowsky , A. Jardin-Blicq , V. Joshi , I. Jung-Richardt , E. Kasai , M. A. Kastendieck , K. Katarzyński , U. Katz , D. Khangulyan , B. Khélifi , S. Klepser , W. Kluźniak , Nu. Komin , R. Konno , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , M. Kreter , G. Kukec Mezek , A. Kundu , G. Lamanna , A. Lemière , M. Lemoine-Goumard , J. -P. Lenain , S. Le Stum , F. Leuschner , C. Levy , T. Lohse , A. Luashvili , I. Lypova , J. Mackey , J. Majumdar , D. Malyshev , D. Malyshev , V. Marandon , P. Marchegiani , A. Marcowith , A. Mares , G. Martí-Devesa , R. Marx , G. Maurin , P. J. Meintjes , M. Meyer , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , C. Moore , P. Morris , E. Moulin , J. Muller , T. Murach , K. Nakashima , A. Nayerhoda , M. de Naurois , H. Ndiyavala , J. Niemiec , L. Oakes , P. O'Brien , H. Odaka , S. Ohm , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , S. Panny , M. Panter , R. D. Parsons , G. Peron , B. Peyaud , Q. Piel , S. Pita , V. Poireau , A. Priyana Noel , D. A. Prokhorov , H. Prokoph , G. Pühlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , S. Raab , R. Rauth , P. Reichherzer , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , Q. Remy , M. Renaud , B. Reville , F. Rieger , L. Rinchiuso , C. Romoli , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , H. Rueda Ricarte , E. Ruiz-Velasco , V. Sahakian , S. Sailer , H. Salzmann , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , J. Schäfer , F. Schüssler , H. M. Schutte , U. Schwanke , M. Seglar-Arroyo , M. Senniappan , A. S. Seyffert , N. Shafi , J. N. S. Shapopi , K. Shiningayamwe , R. Simoni , A. Sinha , H. Sol , H. Spackman , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , M. Spir-Jacob , L. Stawarz , L. Sun , R. Steenkamp , C. Stegmann , S. Steinmassl , C. Steppa , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , T. Tavernier , A. M. Taylor , R. Terrier , J. H. E. Thiersen , C. Thorpe-Morgan , D. Tiziani , M. Tluczykont , L. Tomankova , C. Trichard , M. Tsirou , N. Tsuji , R. Tuffs , Y. Uchiyama , D. J. van der Walt , C. van Eldik , C. van Rensburg , B. van Soelen , G. Vasileiadis , J. Veh , C. Venter , P. Vincent , J. Vink , H. J. Völk , Z. Wadiasingh , S. J. Wagner , J. Watson , F. Werner , R. White , A. Wierzcholska , P. deWilt , Yu Wun Wong , H. Yassin , A. Yusafzai , M. Zacharias , R. Zanin , D. Zargaryan , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , S. J. Zhu , J. Zorn , S. Zouari , N. Żywucka

Flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) constitute a class of jetted active galaxies characterized by a very luminous accretion disk, prominent and rapidly moving line-emitting cloud structures (Broad Line Region, BLR), and a surrounding dense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-16 MAGIC Collaboration

We analyzed Suzaku/XIS data of 2006--2015 observations of a gamma-ray emitting radio galaxy NGC 1275, and brightening of the nucleus in the X-ray band was found in 2013--2015, correlating with GeV Gamma-ray brightening. This is the first…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-08-15 Yasushi Fukazawa , Kensei Shiki , Yasuyuki Tanaka , Ryosuke Itoh , Hiroshi Nagai

Based on a 10 years sample of gamma-ray flares of FSRQs collected with FERMI and AGILE, I report on this proceeding the advance on a statistical study of variability for a sample of more than 300 FSRQs. I will focus on waiting time between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Luigi Pacciani

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…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-22 M. S. Pshirkov , G. I. Rubtsov

Blazars are promising sources of extragalactic high-energy astrophysical neutrinos, detected at energies $\gtrsim 10$ TeV by the IceCube neutrino observatory. Here, we report the first-ever broadband timing and spectral study of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-05 Suvas Chandra Chaudhary , Saikat Das , Raj Prince , Brian van Soelen

The flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) PKS 1510-089 (z=0.361) is known for its complex multiwavelength behavior. It has been monitored regularly at very high energy (VHE, $E>100\,$GeV) gamma-rays with H.E.S.S. since its discovery in 2009 in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Michael Zacharias , Felix Jankowsky , Mahmoud Mohamed , Heike Prokoph , David Sanchez , Stefan Wagner , Alicja Wierzcholska

We report the discovery by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope of high-energy gamma-ray (GeV) emission from the flat-spectrum radio quasar PKS 1454-354 (z=1.424). On 4 September 2008 the source rose to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-27 LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , P. G. Edwards , M. M. Chester , D. N. Burrows , M. Hauser , S. Wagner

Markarian 421 was observed for about four days with BeppoSAX and the Whipple Observatory gamma-ray telescope in April 1998. A pronounced, well-defined, flare with hour-scale variability was observed simultaneously in X-rays and very high…

The binary system PSR B1259-63/LS 2883 consists of a 47.8 ms radio pulsar that orbits the companion Be star with a period of 3.4 years in a highly eccentric orbit. The system is well sampled in radio, X-rays, and TeV gamma-rays, and shows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-08-01 P. H. Thomas Tam , Regina H. H. Huang , Jumpei Takata , C. Y. Hui , Albert K. H. Kong , K. S. Cheng

Flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) can suffer strong absorption above E = 25/(1+z) GeV, due to gamma-gamma interaction if the emitting region is at sub-parsec scale from the super-massive black hole (SMBH). Gamma-ray flares from these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 G. Piano , P. Munar-Adrover , L. Pacciani , P. Romano , S. Vercellone , I. Donnarumma , F. Verrecchia , L. Carrasco , A. Porras , E. Recillas , M. Tavani

We conducted a multi-frequency campaign for the TeV blazar Mrk~421 in 1998 April. The campaign started from a pronounced high amplitude flare recorded by SAX and Whipple; ASCA observation started three days later. In the X-ray data, we…

In this paper, we characterize the first $\gamma$-ray flaring episode of the FSRQ PKS 0346-27 (z=0.991), as revealed by Fermi-LAT monitoring data, and the concurrent multi-wavelength variability observed from radio through X-rays. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-17 R. Angioni , R. Nesci , J. D. Finke , S. Buson , S. Ciprini

We try to infer the location of the GeV emission region for 21 flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) with quasi-simultaneous spectral energy distributions (SEDs), in which the SEDs of 21 FSRQs are reproduced by the one-zone leptonic model…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Gang Cao , Jiancheng Wang

Observations performed with the Fermi-LAT telescope have revealed the presence of a spectral break in the GeV spectrum of flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and other low- and intermediate-synchrotron peaked blazars. We propose that this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-06-17 Matteo Cerruti , Charles D. Dermer , Benoit Lott , Catherine Boisson , Andreas Zech

B2 1215+30 is a BL Lac-type blazar that was first detected at TeV energies by the MAGIC atmospheric Cherenkov telescopes, and subsequently confirmed by the VERITAS observatory with data collected between 2009 and 2012. In 2014 February 08,…