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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

The Fermi LAT has released a list of the most significant 205 sources with three months of Fermi data (Bright Source List). The Milagro Gamma-Ray Observatory is sensitive to gamma rays above 100 GeV with a peak sensitivity between 10 and 30…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-22 Andrew J. Smith

We have reanalyzed the giant outburst of the blazar PKS 1510-089 (z=0.36) that occurred on 2011 October-November. The gamma-ray flux in the 0.1-100 GeV energy range exceeded the value of 10^-5 ph/cm2/s for several days. The peak flux was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-08-29 L. Foschini , G. Bonnoli , G. Ghisellini , G. Tagliaferri , F. Tavecchio , A. Stamerra

Time variability of the photon flux is a known feature of active galactic nuclei (AGN) and in particular of blazars. The high frequency peaked BL Lac (HBL) object PKS 2155-304 is one of the brightest sources in the TeV band and has been…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Jill Chevalier , Max Anton Kastendieck , Frank Rieger , Gilles Maurin , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Giovanni Lamanna

We present a systematic search for gamma-ray emission from supernovae (SNe) in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Pass 8 data. The sample of targets consists of 55,880 candidates from the Open Supernova Catalog. We searched for gamma rays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-04 Dmitry Prokhorov , Anthony Moraghan , Jacco Vink

The blazar 3C 454.3 was revealed by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to be in an exceptionally high flux state in July 2008. Accordingly, we performed a multi-wavelength monitoring campaign on this blazar using IR and optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 E. W. Bonning , C. Bailyn , C. M. Urry , M. Buxton , G. Fossati , L. Maraschi , P. Coppi , R. Scalzo , J. Isler , A. Kaptur

We report the first extensive optical flux and spectral variability study of the TeV blazar TXS 0506+056 on intra-night to long-term timescales using BVRI data collected over 220 nights between January 21, 2017 to April 9, 2022 using 8…

We present a catalog of gamma-ray sources at energies above 10 GeV based on data from the Large Area Telescope (LAT) accumulated during the first 3 years of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope mission. This catalog complements the Second…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-04-16 David Paneque , Jean Ballet , Toby Burnett , Seth Digel , Pascal Fortin , Juergen Knoedlseder

We present deep optical and X-ray follow-up observations of the bright unassociated Fermi-LAT gammaray source 1FGL J1311.7-3429. The source was already known as an unidentified EGRET source (3EG J1314-3431, EGR J1314-3417), hence its nature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. Kataoka , Y. Yatsu , N. Kawai , Y. Urata , C. C. Cheung , Y. Takahashi , K. Maeda , T. Totani , R. Makiya , H. Hanayama , T. Miyaji , A. Tsai

BL Lacertae, the prototype of the BL Lacertae (BL Lac) category of blazars, underwent a giant $\gamma-$ray flare in April 2021. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope (hereafter Fermi-LAT) observed a peak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-12-21 Ashwani Pandey , C. S. Stalin

Pulsars are the most numerous class of Galactic gamma-ray sources detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Young pulsars occasionally experience sudden timing discontinuities called glitches, characterized by rapid changes in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-08 Giovanni Cozzolongo , Alessio Fiori , Massimiliano Razzano , Pablo M. Saz Parkinson

We consider the 1.5 years Fermi Large Area Telescope light curves (E > 100 MeV) of the flat spectrum radio quasars 3C 454.3 and PKS 1510-089, which show high activity in this period of time. We characterise the duty cycle of the source by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini , G. Bonnoli , G. Ghirlanda

High-redshift blazars are among the most powerful objects in the Universe. The spectral and temporal properties of thirty-three distant blazars ($z>2.5$) detected in the high energy $\gamma$-ray band are investigated by analyzing the {\it…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-25 N. Sahakyan , D. Israyelyan , G. Harutyunyan , M. Khachatryan , S. Gasparyan

Fifteen ROSAT PSPC observations available in the public archive are analyzed in order to study time and spectral variability of the 12 EMSS AGN detected by ROSAT with more than 2000 net counts. Time variability was investigated on 13…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Paolo Ciliegi , Tommaso Maccacaro

This is the first of a series of papers aimed at characterizing the populations detected in the high-latitude sky of the {\it Fermi}-LAT survey. In this work we focus on the intrinsic spectral and flux properties of the source sample. We…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-02 LAT Collaboration

We present a systematic search for variability among the ROSAT All-Sky Survey (RASS) X-ray sources. We generated lightcurves for about 30000 X-ray point sources detected sufficiently high above background. For our variability study…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. Fuhrmeister , J. H. M. M. Schmitt

We present the results of our search for highly variable active galactic nuclei (AGNs) the X-ray flux from which changed by more than an order of magnitude during the SRG/eROSITA all-sky survey. Using the eROSITA data obtained in the period…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-21 Pavel Medvedev , Marat Gilfanov , Sergey Sazonov , Rashid Sunyaev , Georgii Khorunzhev

We report on OVRO, WISE, Swift and Fermi-LAT observations of the high redshift blazar CGRaBS J0733+0456, from which significant flux variations in radio, infrared (IR) as well as $\gamma$-ray domains are detected. Particularly, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-10 Neng-Hui Liao , Li-Ming Dou , Ning Jiang , Yi-Bo Wang , Yi-Zhong Fan , Ting-Gui Wang

We took advantage of the observations carried out by XMM in the COSMOS field during 3.5 years, to study the long term variability of a large sample of AGN (638 sources), in a wide range of redshift (0.1<z<3.5) and X-ray luminosity…

Using the Urumqi 25m radio telescope, sources from the first three-month Fermi-LAT detected AGN catalog with declination >0 were observed in 2009 at 4.8 GHz. The radio flux density appears to correlate with the gamma-ray intensity.…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 Xiang Liu , Hua-Gang Song , Jun Liu , Zhen Ding , Nicola Marchili , Thomas P. Krichbaum , Lars Fuhrmann , Anton Zensus , Tao An
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