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Blazars are a class of AGN, one of their jets is pointed towards the earth. Here, we report about the multi-wavelength study for blazar S5 1803+78 between MJD 58727 to MJD 59419. We analysed $\gamma$-ray data collected by Fermi-LAT, X-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 Shruti Priya , Raj Prince , A. Agarwal , D. Bose , A. Özdönmez , E. Ege

New data and results on the optical behaviour of the blazar PKS 0735+178 are presented. In addition the whole historical light curve, and a new photometric calibration of comparison stars are reported. Optical spectral indexes are…

BL Lac has entered an active state since 2020, with multiwavelength observations revealing intense flares. In this study, we conducted 12-night multicolor optical monitoring using an 85 cm telescope from 2020 September to 2024 June and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-05 Hanxiao Xia , Ziming Wang , Jianghua Wu , Yue Fang , Shiyu Du

We present results of multi-wavelength (MWL) observations of the high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae (HBL) object 1ES 0806+524 (z=0.138). Triggered by a high optical state, very high energy (VHE; E > 100 GeV) observations were carried out…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 K. Berger , C. Schultz , E. Lindfors R. Rheinthal , A. Stamerra , F. Tavecchio , S. Buson , F. D'Ammando , T. Hovatta

The Fermi source 2FGL~J0523.3$-$2530 has recently been identified as a candidate millisecond pulsar binary with an orbital period of 16.5 hrs. We have carried out detailed studies of the source's emission properties by analyzing data taken…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 Yi Xing , Zhongxiang Wang , C. -Y. Ng

This paper presents a detailed analysis of the temporal and spectral variability of the low-energy peaked BL Lac object S5 0716+714 with a long (~74 ks)X-ray observation performed by XMM-Newton on 2007 September 24-25. The source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 You-Hong Zhang

The BL Lac PG 1553+113 has been continuously monitored in gamma rays with Fermi-LAT for over 9 years. Its updated light curve now includes 5 iterations of a main pattern comprising a high peak and a longer trough, with a period P \sim 2.2…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-21 Marco Tavani , Alfonso Cavaliere , Pere Munar-Adrover , Andrea Argan

We report the variation of the spectral energy distribution (SED) of blazars as a function of source activity, based on available, simultaneous multi-wavelength (MWL) observations of BL Lac objects. We use a fully automatized \c{hi}2…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-03 Nijil Mankuzhiyil , Stefano Ansoldi , Massimo Persic , Fabrizio Tavecchio

A systematic search for cyclical sources of gamma-ray emission on the period range from days to years in the Fermi-LAT sky is performed. Looking for cyclical emission, the sky is binned into equal-area pixels and the generalised…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-20 D. A. Prokhorov , A. Moraghan

We report on two BeppoSAX observations of BL Lac (2200+420) performed respectively in June and December 1999, as part of a ToO program to monitor blazars in high states of activity. During both runs the source has been detected up to 100…

We study the jet physics of the BL Lac object PKS 2233-148 making use of synergy of observational data sets in the radio and gamma-ray energy domains. The four-epoch multi-frequency (4-43 GHz) VLBA observations focused on the parsec-scale…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-28 A. B. Pushkarev , M. S. Butuzova , Y. Y. Kovalev , T. Hovatta

Blazars display variable emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, with timescales that can range from a few minutes to several years. Our recent work has shown that a sample of five blazars exhibit hints of periodicity with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-20 P. Peñil , J. R. Westernacher-Schneider , M. Ajello , A. Domínguez , S. Buson , J. Otero-Santos , L. Marcotulli , N. Torres-Albà , J. Zrake

New optical and radio data on the BL Lacertae object AO 0235+16 have been collected in the last four years by a wide international collaboration, which confirm the intense activity of this source. The optical data also include the results…

The CAT Imaging Telescope has observed the BL Lac object Markarian 501 between March and August 1997. We report here on the variability over this time including several large flares. We present also preliminary spectra for all these data,…

We perform quasi-simultaneous optical multi-band monitoring of BL Lac object S5 0716+714 on seven nights from 2013 to 2016. Intra-day variability (IDV) is found on all seven nights. The source was faintest on JD 2456322 with 14.15 mags and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-22 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Jianghua Wu , Nankun Meng

This work present the results of a multi-epoch observational study of the blazar S5\,1803+784, carried out from 2019 to 2023. The analysis is based on simultaneous data obtained from the Swift/UVOT/XRT, ASAS-SN, and Fermi-LAT instruments. A…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-27 Javaid Tantry , Ajay Sharma , Zahir Shah , Naseer Iqbal , Debanjan Bose

In 2005 and 2006, the MAGIC telescope has observed very high energy gamma-ray emission from the distant BL Lac object PG 1553+113. The overall significance of the signal is 8.8 sigma for 18.8h observation time. The light curve shows no…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. Albert et al.

S5 0716+714 is a well-studied BL Lac object in the sky. Verifying the existence of correlations among the flux variations in different bands serves as an important tool to investigate the emission processes. To examine the possible…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 Bingkai Zhang , Benzhong Dai , Li Zhang , Jiali Liu , Zhen Cao

We selected a sample of 437 BL Lac objects, taken from the RomaBZCat catalogue, for which spectroscopic information and SDSS photometry is available. We propose a new classification of BL Lacs in which the sources' type is not defined only…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Enrico Massaro , Roberto Nesci , Silvia Piranomonte

We present a detailed analysis of 30 very long baseline interferometric observations of the BL Lac object S5 1803+784 (z=0.679), obtained between mean observational time 1994.67 and 2012.91 at observational frequency 15 GHz. The long-term…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-09-12 E. Kun , M. Karouzos , K. É. Gabányi , S. Britzen , O. M. Kurtanidze , L. Á. Gergely