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In an attempt to constrain and understand the emission mechanism of gamma rays, we perform a cross-correlation analysis of 15 blazars using light curves in millimetre, optical and gamma rays. We use discrete correlation function and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-15 V. Ramakrishnan , T. Hovatta , M. Tornikoski , K. Nilsson , E. Lindfors , M. Baloković , A. Lähteenmäki , R. Reinthal , L. Takalo

The bright Seyfert 1 galaxy \mcg shows large variability on a variety of time scales. We study the $\aproxlt 3$ day time scale variability using a set of simultaneous archival observations that were obtained from \rxte and the {\it Advanced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Michael A. Nowak , James Chiang

We present an extensive study of 72 archival Chandra light curves of the high-frequency-peaked type blazar Mrk 421, the first strong extragalactic object to be detected at TeV energies. Between 2000 and 2015 Mrk 421 often displayed intraday…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-22 V. Aggrawal , Ashwani Pandey , Alok C. Gupta , Zhongli Zhang , Paul J. Wiita , K. K. Yadav , S. N. Tiwari

We analyzed data in polarized intensity obtained with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) at twelve epochs (one observation per month from January to December 2011) at 15, 24, and 43 GHz. For the absolute orientation of the electric vector…

Using the cross-spectral method, we confirm the existence of the X-ray hard lags discovered with cross-correlation function technique during a large flare of Mrk 421 observed with BeppoSAX . For the 0.1--2 versus 2--10keV light curves, both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Y. H. Zhang

We present the results of an intensive ground-based spectrophotometric monitoring campaign of the Seyfert galaxy NGC~4151 for a period of over two months, with a typical temporal resolution of one day. Light curves for four optical…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 S. Kaspi et al

We analyze the long-term lightcurve of 3C 454.3 observed with Fermi/LAT and investigate its relation to the flux in the radio, optical, and X-ray bands. By fitting the 1-day binned GeV lightcurve with multiple Gaussian function (MGF), we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-05-02 Hai-Ming Zhang , Jin Zhang , Rui-Jing Lu , Ting-Feng Yi , Xiao-Li Huang , En-Wei Liang

In this work, we explore the long-term variability properties of the blazar PKS 0219-164 in the radio and the $\gamma$-ray regime, utilizing the OVRO 15 GHz and the \fermi/LAT observations from the period 2008--2017. We found that…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-09-20 Gopal Bhatta

We investigate the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray flares of Mrk 421 on 2008 June 6-15 using the synchrotron self- Compton(SSC) model with electron acceleration, in which an evident correlation between the X-ray and $\gamma$-ray bands appears, while…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Gang Cao , Jiancheng Wang

The variability of the high-frequency peaked BL Lac object PKS 2155-304 is studied using almost 10 years of optical, X-ray and gamma-rays data. Publicly available data have been gathered and analyzed with the aim to characterize the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 J. Chevalier , D. A. Sanchez , P. D. Serpico , J. -P. Lenain , G. Maurin

As one of the most active blazars, Mrk421 is an excellent candidate for the study of the physical processes within the jets of AGN. Here we report on the extensive multi-wavelength observations of Mrk 421 over 4.5 years, from 2008 August to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-08 Songzhan Chen , Silvia Vernetto

It has been previously proposed to explain gamma-ray staggerings in the deexcitation of some superdeformed bands in the $^{150}$Gd region in terms of a coupling between global rotation and intrinsic vortical modes. The observed 4$\hbar$…

Nuclear Theory · Physics 2009-10-31 D. Samsoen , P. Quentin , I. N. Mikhailov

We report the detection of a non-zero time delay between radio emission measured by the VLBA at 15.4 GHz and gamma-ray radiation (gamma-ray leads radio) registered by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-09-21 A. B. Pushkarev , Y. Y. Kovalev , M. L. Lister

We present an X-ray time lag analysis, as a function of Fourier frequency, for MCG-6-30-15 and Mrk 766 using long term XMM-Newton light curves in the 0.5-1.5 keV and the 2-4 keV energy bands, together with some physical modelling of the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 D. Emmanoulopoulos , I. M. McHardy , I. E. Papadakis

This paper combines data from the three preceding papers in order to analyze the multi-waveband variability and spectral energy distribution of the Seyfert~1 galaxy NGC~4151 during the December 1993 monitoring campaign. The source, which…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 R. A. Edelson et al

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

The exact location of the gamma-ray emitting region in blazars is still controversial. In order to attack this problem we present first results of a cross-correlation analysis between radio (11 cm to 0.8 mm wavelength, F-GAMMA program) and…

We report results from our monitoring of the BL Lac object Mrk 421 in the near-IR $J$ band. The observations, aimed at studying the intraday variability (IDV) of the object, were carried out systematically over an extended (and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. C. Gupta , D. P. K. Banerjee , N. M. Ashok , U. C. Joshi

The origin of radio emission in the majority of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) is still poorly understood. Various competing mechanisms are likely involved in the production of radio emission and precise diagnostic tools are needed to…

Context:The HAGAR Telescope Array at Hanle, Ladakh has been regularly monitoring the nearby blazar Mkn 421 for the past 7yrs. Aims: Blazars show flux variability in all timescales across the electromagnetic spectrum. While there is abundant…