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We present the results of a 2-epoch variability survey in the Hubble Deep Field with the goal of investigating the population of AGN to z=1. The primary data sets analyzed for galactic variability are the original HDF observations obtained…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Vicki L. Sarajedini , Ronald L. Gilliland , Christina Kasm

Determining the kinds of gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) has been of interest to astronomers for many years. We analyzed 1599 GRBs from the Burst and Transient Source Experiment (BATSE) 4Br catalogue using $t$-mixtures-model-based clustering on all…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-28 Souradeep Chattopadhyay , Ranjan Maitra

Almost 10 yr of $\gamma$-ray observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) have revealed extreme $\gamma$-ray outbursts from flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), temporarily making these objects the brightest $\gamma$-ray emitters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-31 Manuel Meyer , Jeffrey D. Scargle , Roger D. Blandford

We present statistical analyses of a large homogenous data sample of Fermi-detected blazars thoroughly studied in order to reassess the relationship between flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and subclasses of BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-18 E. U. Iyida , F. C. Odo , A. E. Chukwude , A. A. Ubachukwu

The deepest all-sky survey available in the $\gamma$-ray band - the last release of the Fermi-LAT catalogue (4FGL-DR3) based on the data accumulated in 12 years, contains more than 6600 sources. The largest population among the sources is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-28 N. Sahakyan , V. Vardanyan , M. Khachatryan

We conducted an analysis of gamma-ray variability in a large sample of jetted active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by utilizing archival Fermi-LAT light curves and applying damped random walk modeling to obtain variability amplitude. Our primary…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-21 Yongyun Chen , Qiusheng Gu , Junhui Fan , Dingrong Xiong , Xiaoling Yu , Xiaogu Zhong , Xiaotong Guo , Nan Ding

Blazars are known to show periods of quiescence followed by outbursts visible throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. We present a novel maximum likelihood approach to capture this bimodal behavior by examining blazar radio variability in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-30 I. Liodakis , V. Pavlidou , T. Hovatta , W. Max-Moerbeck , T. J. Pearson , J. L. Richards , A. C. S. Readhead

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sky is dominated by emission from blazars, a peculiar class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Many of the $\gamma$-ray sources included in Fermi -Large Area Telescope Third Source catalog (3FGL) are classified…

Broad-band (gamma to radio) variations of the flux density were observed in the first half of 1992 in the luminous high redshift (z = 2.172) quasar S5 0836+710. VLBI monitoring observations during 1993 -- 1996 performed at 86 GHz, 22 GHz,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Otterbein , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Kraus , A. P. Lobanov , A. Witzel , S. J. Wagner , J. A. Zensus

The variability of the continuum spectral energy distribution has been analyzed for a complete magnitude-limited sample of quasars in Selected Area 57, observed at two epochs in the photographic $U$, $B_J$, $F$ and $N$ bands with the Mayall…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Dario Trevese , Richard G. Kron , Alessandro Bunone

The gamma-ray blazar PKS 0208-512 has shown strong periods of flaring, at all frequencies from radio to gamma-ray. This has led to its inclusion in the TANAMI project, which tracks the jets of southern AGN using VLBI as well as supporting…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-06-28 J. M. Blanchard , J. E. J. Lovell , J. Dickey , R. Ojha , M. Kadler , R. Nesci , P. G. Edwards , J. Stevens , M. Dutka , C. Muller , T. Pursimo

We have recently proposed a new simplified scenario where blazars are classified as flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) or BL Lacs according to the prescriptions of unified schemes, and to a varying combination of Doppler boosted radiation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 P. Giommi , P. Padovani , G. Polenta

The Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA) provides a photometric alternative for identifying week-long gamma-ray flares across the entire sky while being independent of any diffuse Galactic or isotropic emission model. We reviewed 779…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-29 Scott D. Joffre , Núria Torres-Albà , Marco Ajello , Daniel Kocevski , Rolf Buehler

The prompt emission of gamma-ray bursts remains mysterious since the mechanism is difficult to understand even though there are much more observations with the development of detection technology. But most of the gamma-ray bursts spectra…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-26 Ming-Ya Duan , Xiang-Gao Wang

Blazars represent dominant population of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sources in the Universe. These sources exhibit some characteristic properties like strong and non-thermal continuum emission over the entire electromagnetic spectrum…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-07 K. K. Singh , P. J. Meintjes

The fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (4LAC) between 2008 August 4 and 2016 August 2 contains 2863 objects located at high Galactic latitudes (|b|>10{\deg}).…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-29 LAT collaboration

Blazars are an extreme subclass of active galactic nuclei. Their rapid variability, luminous brightness, superluminal motion, and high and variable polarization are probably due to a beaming effect. However, this beaming factor (or Doppler…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-21 J. H. Fan , J. H. Yang , H. B. Xiao , C. Lin , D. Constantin , G. Y. Luo , Z. Y. Pei , J. M. Hao , Y. W. Mao

A sample of 123 radio sources that exhibit significant variations at 1.4 GHz on a seven year base-line has been created using FIRST VLA B-array data from 1995 and 2002 on a strip at dec=0 near the south Galactic cap. This sample spans the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 W. H. de Vries , R. H. Becker , R. L. White , D. J. Helfand

Context. Blazars are a subset of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with jets that are oriented along our line of sight. Variability and spectral energy distribution (SED) studies are crucial tools for understanding the physical processes…

Since its launch in 2008 the Fermi Large Area Telescope provides regular monitoring of a large sample of gamma-ray sources on time scales from hours to years. Together with observations at other wavelengths it is now possible to study…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-09 Stefan Larsson