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The Yale/SMARTS optical-near-IR monitoring program has followed the variations in emission of the Fermi-LAT monitored blazars in the southern sky with closely spaced observations since 2008. We report the discovery of an optical-near-IR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-11 Ritaban Chatterjee , G. Fossati , C. M. Urry , C. D. Bailyn , L. Maraschi , M. Buxton , E. W. Bonning , J. Isler , P. Coppi

High redshift blazars are among the most powerful non-explosive sources in the Universe and play a crucial role in understanding the evolution of relativistic jets. To understand these bright objects, we performed a detailed investigation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 N. Sahakyan , G. Harutyunyan , S. Gasparyan , D. Israyelyan

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

The classification of gamma-ray-detected blazar candidates of uncertain type (BCU) is a relevant problem in extragalactic gamma-ray astronomy. Here we report the optical spectroscopic characterization, using two 3-4~m class telescopes,…

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

We present results of variability study of a sample of 20 powerful blazars using Fermi/LAT (0.1--300 GeV) observations. We studied decade-long observations applying various analysis tools such as flux distribution, symmetry analysis, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-27 Gopal Bhatta , Niraj Dhital

We investigate the use of optical photometric variability to select and identify blazars in large-scale time-domain surveys, in part to aid in the identification of blazar counterparts to the ~30% of gamma-ray sources in the Fermi 2FGL…

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

Although the Fermi mission has increased our knowledge of gamma-ray AGN, many questions remain, such as the site of gamma-ray production, the emission mechanism, and the factors that govern the strength of the emission. Using data from a…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 E. Nieppola , M. Tornikoski , E. Valtaoja , J. León-Tavares , T. Hovatta , A. Lähteenmäki , J. Tammi

We compare the gamma-ray photon flux variability of northern blazars in the Fermi/LAT First Source Catalog with 37 GHz radio flux density curves from the Metsahovi quasar monitoring program. We find that the relationship between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-25 J. Leon-Tavares , E. Valtaoja , M. Tornikoski , A. Lahteenmaki , E. Nieppola

We present the first Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog of long-term $\gamma$-ray transient sources (1FLT). This comprises sources that were detected on monthly time intervals during the first decade of Fermi-LAT operations. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 L. Baldini , J. Ballet , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , A. Berretta , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , P. Bruel , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , S. Chen , G. Chiaro , D. Ciangottini , S. Ciprini , P. Cristarella Orestano , M. Crnogorcevic , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , P. de la Torre Luque , F. de Palma , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , F. Dirirsa , L. Di Venere , A. Domínguez , A. Fiori , H. Fleischhack , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , S. Griffin , S. Guiriec , M. Gustafsson , J. W. Hewitt , D. Horan , R. Imazawa , G. Jóhannesson , M. Kerr , D. Kocevski , M. Kuss , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , I. Liodakis , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , G. Martí-Devesa , H. Matake , M. N. Mazziotta , I. Mereu , M. Meyer , N. Mirabal , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Nagasawa , M. Negro , R. Ojha , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , M. Palatiello , V. Paliya , D. Paneque , Z. Pei , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , H. Poon , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , J. L. Racusin , S. Rainò , R. Rando , B. Rani , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , P. M. Saz Parkinson , L. Scotton , D. Serini , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , D. J. Suson , H. Tajima , D. Tak , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , K. Wood , M. Yassine , G. Zaharijas

AIMS. We are studying an unbiased sample of 42 nearby (z < 0.2) BL Lacertae objects with a multi-wavelength approach. The results of VLBI observations were presented in the first paper of this series. In this paper, we study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-08 F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti , S. Rainò

We investigate the previously proposed possibility that multi-epoch broadband polarimetry could act as a complement or limited proxy for VLBI observations of blazars, in that the number of polarised emission components in the jet, and some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 C. S. Anderson , S. P. O'Sullivan , G. H. Heald , T. Hodgson , A. Pasetto , B. M. Gaensler

Diffusive shock acceleration (DSA) at relativistic shocks is likely to be an important acceleration mechanism in various astrophysical jet sources, including radio-loud AGN. An important recent development for blazar science is the ability…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Matthew G. Baring , Markus Boettcher , Errol J. Summerlin

We present the second catalog of flaring gamma-ray sources (2FAV) detected with the Fermi All-sky Variability Analysis (FAVA), a tool that blindly searches for transients over the entire sky observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-13 S. Abdollahi , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Albert , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , J. Becerra Gonzalez , R. Bellazzini , E. Bissaldi , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , R. Bonino , E. Bottacini , J. Bregeon , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , R. A. Cameron , M. Caragiulo , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , J. Conrad , D. Costantin , F. Costanza , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , F. de Palma , A. Desai , R. Desiante , S. W. Digel , N. Di Lalla , M. Di Mauro , L. Di Venere , B. Donaggio , P. S. Drell , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , W. B. Focke , A. Franckowiak , Y. Fukazawa , S. Funk , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Giglietto , M. Giomi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , D. Green , I. A. Grenier , J. E. Grove , L. Guillemot , S. Guiriec , E. Hays , D. Horan , T. Jogler , G. Jóhannesson , A. S. Johnson , D. Kocevski , M. Kuss , G. La Mura , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , J. Li , F. Longo , F. Loparco , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , J. D. Magill , S. Maldera , A. Manfreda , M. Mayer , M. N. Mazziotta , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , M. Negro , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , N. Omodei , M. Orienti , E. Orlando , V. S. Paliya , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Persic , M. Pesce-Rollins , V. Petrosian , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , G. Principe , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , S. Razzaque , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , C. Sgrò , D. Simone , E. J. Siskind , F. Spada , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , L. Stawarz , D. J. Suson , M. Takahashi , K. Tanaka , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , D. F. Torres , E. Torresi , G. Tosti , E. Troja , G. Vianello , K. S. Wood

This paper presents the gamma-ray spectral and timing results from the long-term regular observations of Mrk 421 with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard Fermi during 2008 August - 2023 August. We discerned six periods the relatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-05 B. Kapanadze , A. Gurchumelia , M. Aller

Blazars are a small fraction of all extragalactic sources but, unlike other objects, they are strong emitters across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. In this study we have conducted a detailed investigation of the broad-band spectral…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 S. Cutini , D. Gasparrini , P. Giommi , M. N. Mazziotta , C. Monte

We present here the results of the analysis of the $\gamma$-ray blazar, 1ES 1215+303, over a 10-year period, from 2008 to 2017, measured at high energies (HE; 200 MeV $< E <$ 100 GeV) by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and at very high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-19 Janeth Valverde , Deirdre Horan , Giuliana Noto , Reshmi Mukherjee , Denis Bernard

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is currently the most important facility for investigating the GeV $\gamma$-ray sky. With Fermi LAT more than three thousand $\gamma$-ray sources have been discovered so far. 1144 ($\sim40\%$) of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-07 G. Chiaro , D. Salvetti , G. La Mura , M. Giroletti , D. J. Thompson , D. Bastieri

We present total and linearly polarized 3 mm Global mm-VLBI Array images of a sample of blazars and radio galaxies from the VLBA-BU-BLAZAR 7 mm monitoring program designed to probe the innermost regions of active galactic nuclei (AGN) jets…