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4C+28.07 is a $\gamma$-ray Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) type source. It is often monitored at different frequencies, though long-term multi-wavelength data of this source have not been modelled in detail before. We have analyzed $\sim…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 Avik Kumar Das , Raj Prince , Nayantara Gupta

The Yale/SMARTS optical-near-IR monitoring program has followed the variations in emission of the Fermi-LAT monitored blazars in the southern sky with closely spaced observations since 2008. We report the discovery of an optical-near-IR…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-03-11 Ritaban Chatterjee , G. Fossati , C. M. Urry , C. D. Bailyn , L. Maraschi , M. Buxton , E. W. Bonning , J. Isler , P. Coppi

We report a characterization of the multi-band flux variability and correlations of the nearby (z=0.031) blazar Markarian 421 (Mrk 421) using data from Mets\"{a}hovi, Swift, Fermi-LAT, MAGIC, FACT and other collaborations and instruments…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-26 MAGIC Collaboration , V. A. Acciari , S. Ansoldi , L. A. Antonelli , K. Asano , A. Babić , B. Banerjee , A. Baquero , U. Barres de Almeida , J. A. Barrio , J. Becerra González , W. Bednarek , L. Bellizzi , E. Bernardini , M. Bernardos , A. Berti , J. Besenrieder , W. Bhattacharyya , C. Bigongiari , O. Blanch , G. Bonnoli , Ž. Bošnjak , G. Busetto , R. Carosi , G. Ceribella , M. Cerruti , Y. Chai , A. Chilingarian , S. Cikota , S. M. Colak , E. Colombo , J. L. Contreras , J. Cortina , S. Covino , G. D'Amico , V. D'Elia , P. Da Vela , F. Dazzi , A. De Angelis , B. De Lotto , M. Delfino , J. Delgado , C. Delgado Mendez , D. Depaoli , T. Di Girolamo , F. Di Pierro , L. Di Venere , E. Do Souto Espiñeira , D. Dominis Prester , A. Donini , M. Doro , V. Fallah Ramazani , A. Fattorini , G. Ferrara , L. Foffano , M. V. Fonseca , L. Font , C. Fruck , S. Fukami , R. J. García López , M. Garczarczyk , S. Gasparyan , M. Gaug , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , P. Gliwny , N. Godinović , J. G. Green , D. Green , D. Hadasch , A. Hahn , L. Heckmann , J. Herrera , J. Hoang , D. Hrupec , M. Hütten , T. Inada , S. Inoue , K. Ishio , Y. Iwamura , J. Jormanainen , L. Jouvin , Y. Kajiwara , M. Karjalainen , D. Kerszberg , Y. Kobayashi , H. Kubo , J. Kushida , A. Lamastra , D. Lelas , F. Leone , E. Lindfors , S. Lombardi , F. Longo , M. López , R. López-Coto , A. López-Oramas , S. Loporchio , B. Machado de Oliveira Fraga , C. Maggio , P. Majumdar , M. Makariev , M. Mallamaci , G. Maneva , M. Manganaro , L. Maraschi , M. Mariotti , M. Martínez , D. Mazin , S. Mender , S. Mićanović , D. Miceli , T. Miener , M. Minev , J. M. Miranda , R. Mirzoyan , E. Molina , A. Moralejo , D. Morcuende , V. Moreno , E. Moretti , P. Munar-Adrover , V. Neustroev , C. Nigro , K. Nilsson , D. Ninci , K. Nishijima , K. Noda , S. Nozaki , Y. Ohtani , T. Oka , J. Otero-Santos , M. Palatiello , D. Paneque , R. Paoletti , J. M. Paredes , L. Pavletić , P. Peñil , C. Perennes , M. Persic , P. G. Prada Moroni , E. Prandini , C. Priyadarshi , I. Puljak , W. Rhode , M. Ribó , J. Rico , C. Righi , A. Rugliancich , L. Saha , N. Sahakyan , T. Saito , S. Sakurai , K. Satalecka , B. Schleicher , K. Schmidt , T. Schweizer , J. Sitarek , I. Šnidarić , D. Sobczynska , A. Spolon , A. Stamerra , D. Strom , M. Strzys , Y. Suda , T. Surić , M. Takahashi , F. Tavecchio , P. Temnikov , T. Terzić , M. Teshima , N. Torres-Albà , L. Tosti , S. Truzzi , J. van Scherpenberg , G. Vanzo , M. Vazquez Acosta , S. Ventura , V. Verguilov , C. F. Vigorito , V. Vitale , I. Vovk , M. Will , D. Zarić , FACT collaboration , : , A. Arbet-Engels , D. Baack , M. Balbo , M. Beck , N. Biederbeck , A. Biland , T. Bretz , K. Bruegge , J. Buss , D. Dorner , D. Elsaesser , D. Hildebrand , R. Iotov , M. Klinger , K. Mannheim , D. Neise , A. Neronov , M. Noethe , A. Paravac , W. Rhode , B. Schleicher , V. Sliusar , F. Theissen , R. Walter , MWL Collaborators , : , J. Valverde , D. Horan , M. Giroletti , M. Perri , F. Verrecchia , C. Leto , A. C. Sadun , J. W. Moody , M. Joner , A. P. Marscher , S. G. Jorstad , A. Lähteenmäki , M. Tornikoski , V. Ramakrishnan , E. Järvelä , R. J. C. Vera , S. Righini , A. Y. Lien

The high-frequency-peaked BL Lacertae object 1ES 0229+200 is a relatively distant (z = 0.1396), hard-spectrum (Gamma ~ 2.5), very-high-energy-emitting (E > 100 GeV) gamma-ray blazar. Very-high-energy measurements of this active galactic…

CTA 102 is a blazar implying that its relativistic jet points towards Earth and emits synchrotron radiation produced by energetic particles gyrating in the magnetic field. This study aims to figure out the physical origins of radio flares…

We perform a detailed spectral study of a recent flaring activity from the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ), 3C\,454.3, observed simultaneously in optical, UV, X-ray and $\gamma$-ray energies during 16 to 28 August, 2015. The source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-05-18 Zahir Shah , S. Sahayanathan , Nijil Mankuzhiyil , Pankaj Kushwaha , Ranjeev Misra , Naseer Iqbal

We present results of variability study of a sample of 20 powerful blazars using Fermi/LAT (0.1--300 GeV) observations. We studied decade-long observations applying various analysis tools such as flux distribution, symmetry analysis, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-27 Gopal Bhatta , Niraj Dhital

Blazars are the brightest and most abundant persistent sources in the extragalactic gamma-ray sky. Due to their significance, they are often observed across various energy bands to explore potential correlations between emissions at…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-22 P. Giommi , N. Sahakyan , D. Israyelyan , M. Manvelyan

Broad-band (gamma to radio) variations of the flux density were observed in the first half of 1992 in the luminous high redshift (z = 2.172) quasar S5 0836+710. VLBI monitoring observations during 1993 -- 1996 performed at 86 GHz, 22 GHz,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 K. Otterbein , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Kraus , A. P. Lobanov , A. Witzel , S. J. Wagner , J. A. Zensus

Blazars are known to show periods of quiescence followed by outbursts visible throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. We present a novel maximum likelihood approach to capture this bimodal behavior by examining blazar radio variability in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-30 I. Liodakis , V. Pavlidou , T. Hovatta , W. Max-Moerbeck , T. J. Pearson , J. L. Richards , A. C. S. Readhead

We report results from a multi-wavelength monitoring campaign on Mrk 421 over the period of 2003-2004. The source was observed simultaneously at TeV and X-ray energies, with supporting observations frequently carried out at optical and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 M. Blazejowski

Based on a 10 years sample of gamma-ray flares of FSRQs collected with FERMI and AGILE, I report on this proceeding the advance on a statistical study of variability for a sample of more than 300 FSRQs. I will focus on waiting time between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Luigi Pacciani

The author presents a model for variability of the flux and polarization of blazars in which turbulent plasma flowing at a relativistic speed down a jet crosses a standing conical shock. The shock compresses the plasma and accelerates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Alan P. Marscher

We discuss the results of the monitoring programs of the X-ray binaries with relativistic jets studies. We carried out a multi-frequency (1-30 GHz) daily monitoring of the radio flux variability of the microquasars SS433, GRS1915+105, V4641…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. A. Trushkin , N. N. Bursov , N. A. Nizhelskij , E. K. Majorova , P. A. Voitsik

A study of the gravitationally lensed blazar PKS 1830-211 was carried out using multi waveband data collected by Fermi-LAT, Swift-XRT and Swift-UVOT telescopes between MJD 58400 to MJD 58800 (9 Oct 2018 to 13 Nov 2019). Flaring states were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-14 Jayant Abhir , Raj Prince , Jophin Joseph , Debanjan Bose , Nayantara Gupta

This paper presents the results of a detailed timing and spectral analysis of the TeV-detected blazar 1ES 1218+304, focused on the observations performed with the different instruments onboard the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory in the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-04-22 B. Kapanadze , A. Gurchumelia , M. Aller

The TeV blazar Ton 599 has exhibited a peculiar flare in 2017 November. The temporal variation of the source is studied using simultaneous $\gamma$-ray data from $\textit{Fermi}$ Large Area Telescope and radio data from Owens Valley Radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-24 S. R. Patel , V. R. Chitnis , A. Shukla , A. R. Rao , B. J. Nagare

We compare the \gamma-ray light curves of the blazars, constructed with data provided by the Fermi Large Area Telescope, with flux and polarization variations in the VLBI core and bright superluminal knots obtained via monthly monitoring…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Jorstad , A. Marscher , I. Agudo , B. Harrison