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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

The Large Area Telescope on the Fermi gamma-ray Space Telescope provides unprecedented sensitivity for all-sky monitoring of gamma-ray activity. It has detected a few Galactic sources, including 2 gamma-ray binaries and a microquasar. In…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-11-15 Sylvain Chaty

Blazars are known to exhibit variability across a broad range of timescales. This behavior can include periodicity in their $\gamma$-ray emission, whose clear detection remains an ongoing challenge, partly due to the inherent stochasticity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 P. Peñil , M. Ajello , S. Buson , A. Domínguez , J. R. Westernacher-Schneider , A. Rico , S. Adhikari , J. Zrake

In this study, we analyze the $\sim 16$ yr Fermi-LAT data of 160 blazars consisting of 92 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), 64 BL Lacertae type objects (BL Lacs), and 4 blazar candidates of unknown type objects (BCU), and exhibit their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Junhao Deng , Yunguo Jiang

Blazars can be detected from very large distances due to their high luminosity. However, the detection of $\gamma$-ray emission of blazars beyond $z=3$ has only been confirmed for a small number of sources. Such observations probe the…

The active galactic nucleus 4C +28.07 is a flat spectrum radio quasar, one of the brightest at $\gamma$-ray energies. We study its multi-wavelength emission by analysing $\sim12.3$ years of \textit{Fermi-LAT} data in the $\gamma$-ray band…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-10 Davit Zargaryan , Jonathan Mackey , Thibault Barnouin , Felix Aharonian

Blazars are known for their energetic multiwavelength flares from radio wavelengths to high-energy $\gamma$-rays. In this work, we study radio, optical, and $\gamma$-ray light curves of 145 bright blazars spanning up to 8~yr, to probe the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-20 I. Liodakis , R. W. Romani , A. V. Filippenko , S. Kiehlmann , W. Max-Moerbeck , A. C. S. Readhead , W. Zheng

Since mid-2007 we have carried out a dedicated long-term monitoring programme at 15 GHz using the Owens Valley Radio Observatory 40 meter telescope. One of the main goals of this programme is to study the relation between the radio and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 W. Max-Moerbeck , J. L. Richards , T. Hovatta , V. Pavlidou , T. J. Pearson , A. C. S. Readhead , O. G. King , R. Reeves

This paper presents light curves and the first systematic characterization of variability of the 106 objects in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Bright AGN Sample (LBAS). Weekly light curves obtained during the first 11 months of survey…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. A. Abdo

We present the time variability properties of a sample of six blazars, AO 0235+164, 3C 273, 3C 279, PKS 1510-089, PKS 2155-304, and 3C 454.3, at optical-IR as well as gamma-ray energies. These observations were carried out as a part of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Ritaban Chatterjee , C. Bailyn , E. W. Bonning , M. Buxton , P. Coppi , G. Fossati , J. Isler , L. Maraschi , C. M. Urry

The flat spectrum radio quasar 3C 279 was observed in an extremely high activity state on June 16, 2015 (MJD 57189). In this paper, we investigate the properties of this flaring episode in the high energy $\gamma$-ray and optical bands…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-05 K K Singh , P J Meintjes , B Bisschoff , F A Ramamonjisoa , B van Soelen

The extragalactic gamma-ray sky is dominated by the emission arising from blazars, one of the most peculiar classes of radio-loud active galaxies. Since the launch of Fermi several methods were developed to search for blazars as potential…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-24 F. Ricci , F. Massaro , M. Landoni , R. D'Abrusco , D. Milisavljevic , D. Stern , N. Masetti , A. Paggi , Howard A. Smith , G. Tosti

Recently, blazar 4C +27.50 was found to be flaring in gamma-rays since its detection with Fermi-LAT in 2008. For the first time, a dedicated temporal and spectral study of the blazar 4C +27.50 has been performed in this work to understand…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Joysankar Majumdar , Sakshi Maurya , Raj Prince

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) provides long term systematic monitoring observations of the gamma-ray emission from blazars. The variability properties and the correlation with other wavelength bands are important clues for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Stefan Larsson

We report on the correlation between the flux, color and polarization variations on time scales of days--months in blazars, and discuss their universal aspects. We performed monitoring of 42 blazars in the optical and near-infrared bands…

We present a multiwavelength study of the flat-spectrum radio quasar CTA 102 during 2013-2017. We use radio-to-optical data obtained by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope, 15 GHz data from the Owens Valley Radio Observatory, 91 and 103 GHz…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-12 F. D'Ammando , C. M. Raiteri , M. Villata , J. A. Acosta-Pulido , I. Agudo , A. A. Arkharov , R. Bachev , G. V. Baida , E. Benitez , G. A. Borman , W. Boschin , V. Bozhilov , M. S. Butuzova , P. Calcidese , M. I. Carnerero , D. Carosati , C. Casadio , N. Castro-Segura , W. -P. Chen , G. Damljanovic , A. Di Paola , J. Echevarria , N. V. Efimova , Sh. A. Ehgamberdiev , C. Espinosa , A. Fuentes , A. Giunta , J. L. Gomez , T. S. Grishina , M. A. Gurwell , D. Hiriart , H. Jermak , B. Jordan , S. G. Jorstad , M. Joshi , G. N. Kimeridze , E. N. Kopatskaya , K. Kuratov , O. M. Kurtanidze , S. O. Kurtanidze , A. Lahteenmaki , V. M. Larionov , E. G. Larionova , L. V. Larionova , C. Lazaro , C. S. Lin , M. P. Malmrose , A. P. Marscher , K. Matsumoto , B. McBreen , R. Michel , B. Mihov , M. Minev , D. O. Mirzaqulov , S. N. Molina , J. W. Moody , D. A. Morozova , S. V. Nazarov , A. A. Nikiforova , M. G. Nikolashvili , J. M. Ohlert , N. Okhmat , E. Ovcharov , F. Pinna , T. A. Polakis , C. Protasio , T. Pursimo , F. J. Redondo-Lorenzo , N. Rizzi , G. Rodriguez-Coira , K. Sadakane , A. C. Sadun , M. R. Samal , S. S. Savchenko , E. Semkov , L. Sigua , B. A. Skiff , L. Slavcheva-Mihova , P. S. Smith , I. A. Steele , A. Strigachev , J. Tammi , C. Thum , M. Tornikoski , Yu. V. Troitskaya , I. S. Troitsky , A. A. Vasilyev , O. Vince , T. Hovatta , S. Kiehlmann , W. Max-Moerbeck , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , T. J. Pearson , T. Mufakharov , Yu. V. Sotnikova , M. G. Mingaliev

A large sample of blazar from the Candidate Gamma Ray Blazar Survey (CGRaBS) has been observed with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) 40-Meter Telescope at 15GHz. Using these quasi-simultaneous observations, we study the connection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Walter Max-Moerbeck

Relativistic amplification boosts the contribution of the jet base to the total emission in blazars, thus making single dish observations useful and practical to characterise their physical state, particularly during episodes of enhanced…

Instrumentation and Methods for Astrophysics · Physics 2020-01-15 Marcello Giroletti , Simona Righini

The Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar OP 313 is a high-redshift (z = 0.997) blazar that entered an intense gamma-ray active phase from November 2023 to March 2024, as observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space…

The BL Lacertae object 3C 66A was detected in a flaring state by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and VERITAS in 2008 October. In addition to these gamma-ray observations, F-GAMMA, GASP-WEBT, PAIRITEL, MDM, ATOM, Swift, and Chandra…