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An increasing number of blazars have been reported to show jet wobbling (i.e., non-regular rotations of the structural position angle of their innermost jets in the plane of the sky with amplitudes between 20 deg. and 50 deg., and time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-03-25 I. Agudo

We present results from timing observations of 27 pulsars made at the Pushchino Observatory over 33.5 yr between 1978 July and 2012 February. We also analyze archival Jet Propulsion Laboratory data of 10 pulsars to extend individual data…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 T. V. Shabanova , V. D. Pugachev , K. A. Lapaev

Blazars are powerful, variable emitters from radio to gamma-ray wavelengths. Even though the general picture of synchrotron emission at low energies and inverse Compton at the high energy end is well established, many important aspects of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 W. Max-Moerbeck , J. L. Richards , V. Pavlidou , T. J. Pearson , A. C. S. Readhead , T. Hovatta , O. G. King , R. Reeves

We report on observations of the polarization of optical and {\gamma}-ray photons from the Crab nebula and pulsar system using the Galway Astronomical Stokes Polarimeter (GASP), the Hubble Space Telescope/Advanced Camera for Surveys…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 Paul Moran , Gillian Kyne , Christian Gouiffes , 3 , Philipe Laurent , Gregg Hallinan , Michael Redfern , Andrew Shearer

Very long baseline interferometric observations of the radio galaxy 3C 120 show a systematic presence of gradients in Faraday rotation and degree of polarization across and along the jet. These are revealed by the passage of multiple…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-07-17 J. L. Gomez , I. Agudo , A. P. Marscher , S. G. Jorstad , M. Roca-Sogorb

LOFAR (LOw Frequency ARray) has previously detected bursts from the periodically active, repeating fast radio burst (FRB) source FRB 20180916B down to unprecedentedly low radio frequencies of 110 MHz. Here we present 11 new bursts in 223…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-29 A. Gopinath , C. G. Bassa , Z. Pleunis , J. W. T. Hessels , P. Chawla , E. F. Keane , V. Kondratiev , D. Michilli , K. Nimmo

Context: Recent near-infrared polarization measurements of SgrA* show that its emission is significantly polarized during flares and consists of a non- or weakly polarized main flare with highly polarized sub-flares. The flare activity…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 L. Meyer , A. Eckart , R. Schoedel , W. J. Duschl , K. Muzic , M. Dovciak , V. Karas

We present an analysis of K2 short cadence data of 34 M dwarfs which have spectral types in the range M0 - L1. Of these stars, 31 showed flares with a duration between $\sim$10-90 min. Using distances obtained from Gaia DR2 parallaxes, we…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2018-08-08 L. Doyle , G. Ramsay , J. G. Doyle , K. Wu , E. Scullion

We have used single-dish centimeter-band, multi-frequency linear polarization and total flux density monitoring observations obtained by UMRAO at 14.5, 8, and 4.8 GHz during gamma-ray flaring to constrain propagating shock-in-jet models;…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-02-27 Margo F. Aller , Philip A. Hughes , Hugh D. Aller , Talvikki Hovatta

Polarization-angle density displays are given for pulsars B0809+74 and B2303+30, which exhibit no evidence of the systematic polarization-angle rotation within individual subpulses previously reported for these two stars. The ``drifting''…

We conduct a small-scale pathfinding survey designed to identify the average polarization properties of the diffuse ISM locally at the lowest dust content regions. We perform deep optopolarimetric surveys within three $\sim 15' \times 15'$…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-08-15 R. Skalidis , G. V. Panopoulou , K. Tassis , V. Pavlidou , D. Blinov , I. Komis , I. Liodakis

I discuss the transfer of polarized synchrotron radiation in relativistic jets. I argue that the main mechanism responsible for the circular polarization properties of compact synchrotron sources is likely to be Faraday conversion and that,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Mateusz Ruszkowski

Even with several thousand {\it Fermi}-LAT blazar detections, the $\gamma$-ray emission mechanism is poorly understood. We explore correlated optical/$\gamma$-ray flux variations for 178 {\it Fermi}-LAT blazars regularly monitored by KAIT,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-31 I. Liodakis , R. W. Romani , A. V. Filippenko , D. Kocevski , W. Zheng

Marsh et al. detected radio and optical pulsations from the binary system AR Scorpii (AR Sco). This system, with an orbital period of 3.56 h, is composed of a cool, low-mass star and a white dwarf with a spin period of 1.95 min. Optical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-07-03 L. du Plessis , Z. Wadiasingh , C. Venter , A. K. Harding , S. Chandra , P. J. Meintjies

We present a detailed analysis of time- and energy-dependent synchrotron polarization signatures in a shock-in-jet model for gamma-ray blazars. Our calculations employ a full 3D radiation transfer code, assuming a helical magnetic field…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Haocheng Zhang , Xuhui Chen , Markus Boettcher

Motivated by recent observations that show increasing fractional linear polarization with increasing wavelength in a small number of optically thin jet features, i.e. "inverse depolarization", we present a physical model that can explain…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 Daniel C. Homan

The relation between magnetic activity and rotation in late-type stars provides fundamental information on stellar dynamos and angular momentum evolution. Rotation/activity studies found in the literature suffer from inhomogeneity in the…

We are leading a comprehensive multi-waveband monitoring program of 34 gamma-ray bright blazars designed to locate the emission regions of blazars from radio to gamma-ray frequencies. The "maps" are anchored by sequences of images in both…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Alan Marscher , Svetlana G. Jorstad , Valeri M. Larionov , Margo F. Aller , Anne Lahteenmaki

We have measured multi-band optical flux and colour variations for a sample of 12 low energy peaked blazars on short, day-to-month, timescales. Our sample contains six BL Lacertae objects and six flat spectrum radio quasars. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bindu Rani , Alok C. Gupta , A. Strigachev , R. Bachev , Paul J. Wiita , E. Semkov , E. Ovcharov , B. Mihov , S. Boeva , S. Peneva , B. Spassov , S. Tsvetkova , K. Stoyanov , A. Valcheva
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