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Blazars are characterized by large amplitude and fast variability, indicating that the electron distribution is rapidly changing, often on time scales shorter than the light crossing time. We study the time dependent behavior of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Marco Chiaberge , Gabriele Ghisellini

In this paper: 1. The assumption of the dependence of Doppler factor on the emission frequency (Fan et al. 1993) is used to explain the observational differences between the radio-selected BL Lac objects(RBLs) and the X-Ray-Selected BL Lac…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. H. Fan

Recent population studies have shown that the variability Doppler factors can adequately describe blazars as a population. We use the flux density variations found within the extensive radio multi-wavelength datasets of the F-GAMMA program,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 I. Liodakis , N. Marchili , E. Angelakis , L. Fuhrmann , I. Nestoras , I. Myserlis , V. Karamanavis , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Sievers , H. Ungerechts , J. A. Zensus

In a two-component jet model, the emissions are the sum of the core and extended emissions: $S^{\rm ob}=S_{\rm core}^{\rm ob}+S_{\rm ext}^{\rm ob}$, with the core emissions, $S_{\rm core}^{\rm ob}= f S_{\rm ext}^{\rm ob}\delta^{q}$, being a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-06-28 Yun-Tian Li , Shao-Yu Fu , Huan-Jian Feng , Si-Le He , Chao Lin , Jun-Hui Fan , Denise Costantin , Yu-Tao Zhang

Blazars are characterized by large amplitude and fast variability, indicating that the electron distribution is rapidly changing, often on time scales shorter than the light crossing time. The emitting region is sufficiently compact to let…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Marco Chiaberge , Gabriele Ghisellini

We present a comprehensive temporal and spectral analysis of a few blazars using multi-wavelength observations. Rapid flux variations are quantified via the doubling/halving timescale method, revealing the shortest variability timescales of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-17 Ajay Sharma , Aishwarya Sarath , Sakshi Chaudhary , Debanjan Bose

We estimate the intrinsic luminosities and synchrotron peak frequency using the derived Doppler factor for a sample of 170 BL Lac objects, of which the synchrotron peak frequency are derived by fitting the SED constructed with the collected…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Zhongzu Wu , Minfeng Gu , D. R. Jiang

In this paper we develop the extended jet model of Potter & Cotter to model the simultaneous multi-wavelength spectra of six Compton-dominant blazars. We include an accelerating parabolic base transitioning to a slowly decelerating conical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-15 William J. Potter , Garret Cotter

There is growing evidence that the estimations of the beaming Doppler factor in TeV BL Lac object based on the Self Synchrotron Compton (SSC) models are in strong disagreement with those deduced from the unification models between blazars…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Gilles Henri , Ludovic Sauge

The BL Lac object S5 0716+71 was target of a coordinated and global multi-frequency campaign to search for rapid and correlated variability and signatures of the inverse-Compton catastrophe. Here we present first results obtained from a…

Internal shocks propagating through an ambient radiation field, are subject to a radiative drag that, under certain conditions, can significantly affect their dynamics and, consequently, the evolution of the beaming cone of emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Avigdor Eldar , Amir Levinson

Blazars show rapid and violent variabilities, which timescale are often less than a day. We studied intraday variations by applying a shot analysis technique to Kepler monitoring of blazar W2R 1926+42 in Quarter 14. We obtained a mean…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-10 M. Sasada , S. Mineshige , S. Yamada , H. Negoro

The RoboPol instrument and the relevant program was developed in order to conduct a systematic study of the optical polarisation variability of blazars. Driven by the discovery that long smooth rotations of the optical polarisation plane…

We present the results of multiband observations of the blazar S5 0716+714 intra-night variability performed during 23 nights in the period from 04.2014 through 04.2015. The bluer-when-brighter trend is detected in both intra- and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-03-17 Marina S. Butuzova

The Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope observations of blazars show a strong correlation between the spectral index of their gamma-ray spectra and their synchrotron peak frequency $\nu_{\rm{pk}}^{\rm{syn}}$; additionally, the rate of Compton…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-17 Stella Boula , Demosthenes Kazanas , Apostolos Mastichiadis

We propose a scenario where blazars are classified as flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), BL Lacs, low synchrotron, or high synchrotron peaked objects according to a varying mix of the Doppler boosted radiation from the jet, the emission…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 P. Giommi , P. Padovani , G. Polenta , S. Turriziani , V. D'Elia , S. Piranomonte

Multiband optical photometry data of blazar S5 0716+714 obtained from 2002 to 2019 reveal stable color index change with flux variability. We analyzed this trend under variability caused by the Doppler factor change in the presence of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-05 Mark A. Gorbachev , Marina S. Butuzova , Sergey G. Sergeev , Sergey V. Nazarov , Alexey V. Zhovtan

In this work we investigate the nature of multi-wavelength variability of blazars from a purely numerical approach. We use a time-dependent one-zone leptonic blazar emission model to simulate multi-wavelength variability by introducing…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-09 Hannes Thiersen , Michael Zacharias , Markus Böttcher

We fit the spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of members of a large sample of Fermi 2LAC blazars to synchrotron and inverse Compton (IC) models. Our main results are as follows. (i) As suggested by previous works, the correlation between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-10-12 R. Xue , D. Luo , L. M. Du , Z. R. Wang , Z. H. Xie , T. F. Yi , D. R. Xiong , Y. B. Xu , W. G. Liu , X. L. Yu

Blazars' non-thermal emission shows rapid variability across all wavelengths, so spectral energy distributions (SEDs) built from quasi-simultaneous data are crucial for revealing the jets physical properties. In this work, we construct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Yi Zhong , Zhujian Wan , Rui Xue , Hubing Xiao , Dingrong Xiong , Ze-Rui Wang