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Observations of quasars show that the polarization position angle of the emission coming from them varies greatly over time, including periods called rotations during which the angle changes in an orderly manner. The study proposes a method…

Here we report on the results of the WEBT photo-polarimetric campaign targeting the blazar S5~0716+71, organized in March 2014 to monitor the source simultaneously in BVRI and near IR filters. The campaign resulted in an unprecedented…

The high-energy-peaked BL Lacertae objects (HBLs) are the main targets of the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) for investigating the mechanisms of radiation and particle acceleration in jets. In this paper, we report the first IXPE…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-01 Xin-Ke Hu , Yu-Wei Yu , Jin Zhang , Tan-Zheng Wu , Ji-Shun Lian , Xiang-Gao Wang , Hai-Ming Zhang , En-Wei Liang

Blazars, a subset of powerful active galactic nuclei, feature relativistic jets that shine in a broadband electromagnetic radiation, e. g. from radio to TeV emission. Here I present the results of the studies that explore gamma-ray and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Gopal Bhatta

Emission from blazar jets in the ultraviolet, optical, and infrared is polarized. If these low-energy photons were inverse-Compton scattered, the upscattered high-energy photons retain a fraction of the polarization. Current and future…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-03 Nachiketa Chakraborty , Vasiliki Pavlidou , Brian Fields

We present the results of our follow-up observation program of gamma-ray sources detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope. 26 blazars and 39 sources unidentified at other wavelengths were…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-11 Mai Fujiwara , Yoshiki Matsuoka , Nobuyuki Ienaka

The bright X-ray selected BL Lacertae object PKS 2155-304 has been the target of two intense multiwavelength campaigns, in November 1991 and in May 1994. Although the spectral energy distributions at both epochs were quite similar, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Markos Georganopoulos , Alan P. Marscher

We report the detection of high polarization in the first detailed optical linear polarization measurements on the BL Lac object CGRaBS J0211+1051, which flared in $\gamma$-rays on 2011 January 23 as reported by Fermi. The observations were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Sunil Chandra , Kiran S Baliyan , Shashikiran Ganesh , Umesh Joshi

We present multiwavelength observations of the ultraluminous blazar-type radio loud quasar PKS 0528+134 in quiescence during the period July to December 2009. Significant flux variability on a time scale of several hours was found in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 N. I. Palma , M. Boettcher

The blazar 3C454.3 exhibited a strong flare seen in gamma-rays, X-rays, and optical/NIR bands during 3--12 December 2009. Emission in the V and J bands rose more gradually than did the gamma-rays and soft X-rays, though all peaked at nearly…

Study of the polarization behaviour in blazars is a powerful tool to discern the role of magnetic field in the variable emission process in their relativistic jets. We present here results of our systematic investigation on the correlation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-12 Ashwani Pandey , Bhoomika Rajput , C. S. Stalin

A comprehensive study of multifrequency correlations can shed light on the nature of variation for blazars. In this work, we collect the long-term radio, optical and $\gamma$-ray light curves of PKS 1502+106. After performing the localized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-06 Xi Shao , Yunguo Jiang , Xu Chen

Optical observations of a sample of 12 $\gamma$-ray bright blazars from four optical data archives, AAVSO, SMARTS, Catalina, and Steward Observatory, are compiled to create densely sampled light curves spanning more than a decade. As a part…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-15 Gopal Bhatta

We report Atacama-Large-millimeter-Array (ALMA) Band 6 full-polarization observations of the lensed blazar PKS1830-211 during its record-breaking radio and gamma-ray flare in the spring of 2019. The observations were taken close to the peak…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 I. Marti-Vidal , S. Muller , A. Mus , A. Marscher , I. Agudo , J. L. Gomez

As part of our comprehensive long-term multi-waveband monitoring of 34 blazars, we followed the activity in the jet of the blazar PKS 1510-089 during major outbursts during the first half of 2009. The most revealing event was a two-month…

We present the results of a long-term periodicity search in a sample of $\gamma$-ray blazars within a multiwavelength context. These blazars have been selected from the Steward Observatory sample as part of its optical monitoring program…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-16 J. Otero-Santos , P. Peñil , J. A. Acosta-Pulido , J. Becerra González , C. M. Raiteri , M. I. Carnerero , M. Villata

In this work, I have presented a multi-frequency variability and correlation study of the blazar Ton 599, which was observed first time in flaring state at the end of 2017. Data from \textit{Fermi}-LAT, Swift-XRT/UVOT, Steward Observatory,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-30 Raj Prince

Blazars are the established sources of an intense and variable non-thermal radiation extending from radio wavelengths up to HE and VHE gamma-rays. Understanding the spectral evolution of blazars in selected frequency ranges, as well as…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-12-24 Alicja Wierzcholska , Michał Ostrowski , Łukasz Stawarz , Stefan Wagner , Marcus Hauser