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We compare the gamma-ray photon flux variability of northern blazars in the Fermi/LAT First Source Catalog with 37 GHz radio flux density curves from the Metsahovi quasar monitoring program. We find that the relationship between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-25 J. Leon-Tavares , E. Valtaoja , M. Tornikoski , A. Lahteenmaki , E. Nieppola

We report results of a multiband monitoring campaign of the flat spectrum radio quasar TXS 0536+145 at redshift 2.69. This source was detected during a very high gamma-ray activity state in 2012 March by the Large Area Telescope on board…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 M. Orienti , F. D'Ammando , M. Giroletti , J. Finke , M. Ajello , D. Dallacasa , T. Venturi

Based on one-month long MMT time-series observations of the open cluster M37, we monitored light variations of nearly 2500 red dwarfs and successfully identified 420 flare events from 312 cluster M dwarf stars. For each flare light curve,…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-10-16 S. -W. Chang , Y. -I. Byun , J. D. Hartman

We present a study of the multiwavelength (MW) variability of the blazar AO 0235+164 based on the radio-to-$\gamma$-ray data covering a long time period from 1997 to 2023. The radio data are represented by the 1-22 GHz measurements from the…

We established a sample of millimeter-wave and gamma-ray bright active galactic nuclei matching the WMAP catalog with the EGRET catalog, highest energy photons and the Fermi bright source list. We have monitored over 80 of these objects in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2010-01-05 Alberto Carraminana , Luis Carrasco , Alicia Porras , Elsa Recillas

J1415+1320 is a well-studied blazar that exhibits strong flux density variability at a wide range of radio frequencies (2.4 $-$ 230~GHz). In this letter, we present a variability study of this source at 327~MHz using the data obtained with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-28 Sravani Vaddi , P. K. Manoharan , Anish Roshi

In this work, we present the results of our multi-band microvariability study of the famous blazar BL Lac. We performed microvariablity observations of the source in the optical VRI bands for 4 nights in the year 2016. We studied the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-27 Gopal Bhatta , James R. Webb

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

S5 0716+714 is a typical BL Lacertae object. In this paper we present the analysis and results of long term simultaneous observations in the radio, near-infrared, optical, X-ray and $\gamma$-ray bands, together with our own photometric…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 N. H. Liao , J. M. Bai , H. T. Liu , S. S. Weng , Liang Chen , F. Li

We use a combination of high-resolution very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) radio and multi-wavelength flux density and polarization observations to constrain the physics of the dissipation mechanism powering the broadband flares in 3C…

Context: Being dominated by non-thermal emission from aligned relativistic jets, blazars allow us to elucidate the physics of extragalactic jets, and, ltimately, how the energy is extracted from the central black hole in radio-loud active…

We present the results of a campaign to observe flares on the M dwarf flare star EV Lacertae over the course of two days in 2001 September, utilizing a combination of radio continuum, optical photometric and spectroscopic, ultraviolet…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 R. A. Osten , S. L. Hawley , J. C. Allred , C. M. Johns-Krull , C. Roark

We report on the correlation between the flux, color and polarization variations on time scales of days--months in blazars, and discuss their universal aspects. We performed monitoring of 42 blazars in the optical and near-infrared bands…

Blazars are active galactic nuclei known for their extreme variability, offering unique opportunities to study jet physics and high-energy emission mechanisms. In 2024, the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) OP313 underwent a remarkable…

The results of 8-year R-band photopolarimetric data of blazar Mrk 421 collected from February 2008 to May 2016 are presented, along with extensive multiwavelength observations covering from radio to TeV $\gamma$-rays around the flares…

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGN) that emit non-thermal radiation through relativistic jets, characterized by rapid flux and polarization variability. High synchrotron-peaked blazars (HSPs) and extreme high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-11-26 Adithiya Dinesh , Alberto Dominguez , V. Paliya , J. L. Contreras , S. Buson , M. Ajello

This study presents an analysis of the optical variability of the blazar 1E 1458.8+2249 on diverse timescales using multi-band observations, including observations in the optical BVRI bands carried out with the T60 and T100 telescopes from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-25 Aykut Özdönmez , Murat Tekkeşinoğlu

We present results of five years of optical (UBVRI) observations of the very-high-energy gamma-ray blazar 1ES 1011+496 at the MDM Observatory. We calibrated UBVRI magnitudes of five comparison stars in the field of the object. Most of our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Boettcher , B. Hivick , J. Dashti , K. Fultz , S. Gupta , C. Gusbar , M. Joshi , A. Lamerato , T. Peery , D. Principe , A. Rajasingam , P. Roustazadeh , J. Shields

We present the results of an observational campaign which obtained high time cadence, high precision, simultaneous optical and IR photometric observations of three M dwarf flare stars for 47 hours. The campaign was designed to characterize…

M dwarfs are the most common type of star in the solar neighborhood, and many exhibit frequent and highly energetic flares. To better understand these events across the electromagnetic spectrum, a campaign observed AU Mic (dM1e) over 7 days…