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We present EVN observations of seven BL Lac objects selected from the RGB sample. To investigate the intrinsic radiation property of BL Lac objects, we estimated the Doppler factor with the VLA or MERLIN core and the total 408 MHz…

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

We present a detailed temporal and spectral analysis of the blazar S5\,1044+71 using multi-wavelength data obtained from the \emph{Fermi}-LAT and Swift-XRT/UVOT telescopes. Applying the Bayesian block algorithm to the 3-day binned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-22 Sajad Ahanger , Shah Zahir , Sunder Sahayanathan , Naseer Iqbal , Zahoor Malik , Aaqib Manzoor

We have examined 13 pointed observations of the TeV emitting high synchrotron peak blazar PKS 2155-304, taken by the Suzaku satellite throughout its operational period. We found that the blazar showed large-amplitude intraday variabilities…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-03-17 Zhongli Zhang , Alok C. Gupta , Haritma Gaur , Paul J. Wiita , Tao An , Yang Lu , Shida Fan , Haiguang Xu

We present variability analyses of twenty pointed XMM-Newton observations of the high energy peaked TeV blazar PG 1553+113 taken during 2010 to 2018. We found intraday variability in the total X-ray energy range (0.3 -- 10 keV) in 16 out of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-30 Vinit Dhiman , Alok C. Gupta , Haritma Gaur , Paul J. Wiita

We present the results of timing and spectral analysis of the blazar H 2356-309 using XMM-Newton observations. This blazar is observed during 13 June 2005-24 December 2013 in total nine observations. Five of the observations show moderate…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-07 Kiran A. Wani , Haritma Gaur

Rapid variability on a time scale much faster than the light-crossing time of the central supermassive black hole has been seen in TeV emission from the blazar PKS 2155-304. The most plausible explanation of this puzzling observation is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-30 Ramesh Narayan , Tsvi Piran

We report the results from our study of the blazar S5 1803+784 carried out using the quasi-simultaneous $B$, $V$, $R$, and $I$ observations from May 2020 to July 2021 on 122 nights. Our observing campaign detected the historically bright…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-07-20 A. Agarwal , Ashwani Pandey , Aykut Özdönmez , Ergün Ege , Avik Kumar Das , Volkan Karakulak

We analyzed the multi-band optical behaviour of the BL Lacertae object, S5 0716+714, during its outburst state from 2014 November - 2015 March. We took data on 23 nights at three observatories, one in India and two in Bulgaria, making…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Aditi Agarwal , Alok C. Gupta , R. Bachev , A. Strigachev , E. Semkov , Paul J. Wiita , J. H. Fan , U. S. Pandey , S. Boeva , B. Spassov

We determined the kinematics at the jet of 0716+714 from a reanalysis of multi-frequency VLBI data (5, 8.4, 15, 22 GHz) obtained during the last 10 years combined with data from the literature. For this intra-day variable blazar, only a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 U. Bach , T. P. Krichbaum , S. Britzen , E. Ros , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

BL Lacertae (BL Lac) is categorized as TeV blazar and considered as a possible source of astrophysical neutrinos. In 2020, the brightest X-ray flare ever detected from it. A detailed study can answer many puzzling questions related to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-22 Raj Prince

Blazars are variable targets in the sky, whose variation mechanism remains an open question. In this work, we make a comprehensive study on the variation phenomena of the spectral index and polarization degree (PD) to deeply understand the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-08-11 Yifang Wang , Yunguo Jiang

We explored the statistical properties of short-term X-ray variability using long-exposure {\it XMM-Newton} data during high X-ray variability phases of blazars S5 0716+714 and PKS 2155-304. In general, hardness ratio shows correlated…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-15 Pankaj Kushwaha , Main Pal

We present an optical variability study of 44 newly identified blazar candidates behind the Magellanic Clouds, including 27 flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 17 BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs). All objects in the sample possess high…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-01-29 Natalia Żywucka , Mariusz Tarnopolski , Markus Böttcher , Łukasz Stawarz , Volodymyr Marchenko

The blazars 3C 454.3, PKS 0537-441 and PKS 2155-304 are traditionally known to be among the most active sources of this class. They emit at all frequencies, up to the gamma-rays, and are good probes of multiwavelength nuclear variability.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-25 Elena Pian , Luigi Foschini , Gabriele Ghisellini

We present an in-depth and systematic variability study of a sample of 20 powerful blazars, including 12 BL Lacs and 8 flat spectrum radio quasars, applying various analysis tools such as flux distribution, symmetry analysis, and time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Gopal Bhatta , Niraj Dhital

We report the main results of our six year long intensive optical monitoring on blazars ON 231 (W Com), BL Lac, and 3C 273. Intensive optical monitoring is an indispensable tool to obtain well sampled light curves and thus to understand the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 G. Tosti , S. Ciprini , E. Massaro , M. Maesano , F. Montagni , R. Nesci

We report on a densely time sampled polarimetric flux density monitoring of the BL Lac object S5 0716+71 at 86 GHz and 229 GHz with the IRAM 30 m telescope within a coordinated broad spectral band campaign, centred around an INTEGRAL…

We monitored BL Lacertae in the B, V, R and I bands for 14 nights during the period of 2016-2018. The source showed significant intraday variability on 12 nights. We performed colour-magnitude analysis and found that the source exhibited…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Tian Li , Jianghua Wu , Nankun Meng , Yan Dai , Xiaoyuan Zhang

Structured jets are recently invoked to explain the complex emission of gamma ray bursts, such as GW 170817. Based on the accretion simulations, the jets are expected to have a structure that is more complex than a simple top-hat. Also, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-08 Agnieszka Janiuk , Bestin James , Ishika Palit

Mildly-relativistic shocks that are embedded in colliding magnetohydrodynamic flows are prime sites for relativistic particle acceleration and production of strongly variable, polarized multi-wavelength emission from relativistic jet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Markus Boettcher , Matthew G Baring