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Recent works have developed samples of blazars from among the Fermi-LAT unassociated sources via machine learning comparisons with known blazar samples. Continued analysis of these new blazars tests the predictions of the blazar sequence…

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About twenty years of radio observations in five bands (from 4.8 to 37 GHz) of the BL Lac object GC 0109+224 (S2 0109+22, RGB J0112+227), are presented and analysed together with the optical data. Over the past ten years this blazar has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Stefano Ciprini , Gino Tosti , Harri Teräsranta , Hugh D. Aller

We examine the coincidence of times of high $\gamma$-ray flux and ejections of superluminal components from the core in EGRET blazars based on a VLBA monitoring program at 22 and 43 GHz from November 1993 to July 1997. In 23 cases of…

We present cross-correlation studies of gamma-ray (0.1-300 GeV), X-ray (0.2-10 keV) and optical (R-band) variability of a sample of 26 blazars during 2008-2016. The light curves are from Fermi-LAT, Swift-XRT, and the Yale-SMARTS blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Anwesh Majumder , Kaustav Mitra , Ritaban Chatterjee , C. M. Urry , C. D. Bailyn , Prantik Nandi

Blazars are highly variable active galactic nuclei which emit radiation at all wavelengths from radio to gamma-rays. Polarized radiation from blazars is one key piece of evidence for synchrotron radiation at low energies and it also varies…

We present a detailed temporal and spectral study of the blazar 3C\,279 using multi-wavelength observations from Swift-XRT, Swift-UVOT and Fermi-LAT during a flare in 2018 January. The temporal analysis of $\gamma$-ray light curve indicates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-06-03 Zahir Shah , V. Jithesh , S. Sahayanathan , Ranjeev Misra , Naseer Iqbal

Beaming effect is important for the observational properties of blazars. In this work, we collect 91 $Fermi$ blazars with available radio Doppler factors. $\gamma$-ray Doppler factors are estimated and compared with radio Doppler factors…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 C. Lin , J. H. Fan , H. B. Xiao

Multiwavelength variability of blazars offers indirect insight into their powerful engines and on the mechanisms through which energy is propagated from the centre down the jet. The BL Lac object Mkn 421 is a TeV emitter, a bright blazar at…

Blazars are known to exhibit variability across a broad range of timescales. This behavior can include periodicity in their $\gamma$-ray emission, whose clear detection remains an ongoing challenge, partly due to the inherent stochasticity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 P. Peñil , M. Ajello , S. Buson , A. Domínguez , J. R. Westernacher-Schneider , A. Rico , S. Adhikari , J. Zrake

The Fermi Gamma-ray Observatory discovered about a thousand extragalactic sources emitting energy from 100 MeV to 100 GeV. The majority of these sources belong to the class of blazars characterized by a quasi-featureless optical spectrum…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-02 Simona Paiano , Renato Falomo , Marco Landoni , Aldo Treves , Riccardo Scarpa

We examine the long term (~10 years) gamma-ray variability of blazars observed by EGRET and Fermi and find that for six sources the average flux varied by more than an order of magnitude. For two of these sources (PKS 0208-512 and PKS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-26 Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Ranjeev Misra , A. R. Rao , P. Sreekumar

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope routinely detects the highly dust-absorbed, reddened, and MeV-peaked flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1830-211 (z=2.507). Its apparent isotropic gamma-ray luminosity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 The Fermi LAT Collaboration , A. A. Abdo , M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Allafort , M. A. Amin , L. Baldini , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , R. D. Blandford , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , J. Bregeon , M. Brigida , R. Buehler , D. Bulmash , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , C. C. Cheung , J. Chiang , G. Chiaro , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , R. H. D. Corbet , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , A. de Angelis , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , C. Favuzzi , J. Finke , W. B. Focke , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , I. A. Grenier , J. E. Grove , S. Guiriec , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , E. Hays , R. E. Hughes , Y. Inoue , M. S. Jackson , T. Jogler , G. Jòhannesson , A. S. Johnson , T. Kamae , J. Knödlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , S. Larsson , L. Latronico , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. M. Madejski , M. N. Mazziotta , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , T. Mizuno , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , R. Nemmen , E. Nuss , M. Ohno , T. Ohsugi , D. Paneque , J. S. Perkins , M. Pesce-Rollins , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. A. Porter , S. Rainò , R. Rando , M. Razzano , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , L. C. Reyes , S. Ritz , C. Romoli , M. Roth , P. M. Saz Parkinson , C. Sgrò , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , H. Takahashi , Y. Takeuchi , T. Tanaka , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , L. Tibaldo , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , V. Tronconi , T. L. Usher , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , M. Werner , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood

We present multiwavelength data for twelve blazars observed from 2008-2010 as part of an ongoing optical-infrared photometric monitoring project. Sources were selected to be bright, southern (dec < 20 deg) blazars observed by the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 E. W. Bonning , C. M. Urry , C. Bailyn , M. Buxton , R. Chatterjee , P. Coppi , G. Fossati , J. Isler , L. Maraschi

In this study, we analyze the $\sim 16$ yr Fermi-LAT data of 160 blazars consisting of 92 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), 64 BL Lacertae type objects (BL Lacs), and 4 blazar candidates of unknown type objects (BCU), and exhibit their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Junhao Deng , Yunguo Jiang

The blazar AO 0235+164 (z = 0.94) has been one of the most active objects observed by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) since its launch in Summer 2008. In addition to the continuous coverage by Fermi, contemporaneous observations were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-07-13 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , E. Bottacini , J. Bregeon , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , S. Cutini , F. D'Ammando , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , R. Dubois , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , W. B. Focke , P. Fortin , L. Fuhrmann , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , P. Giommi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , R. E. Hughes , R. Itoh , G. Johannesson , A. S. Johnson , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , J. Knodlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , S. Larsson , S. -H. Lee , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. M. Madejski , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , W. Mitthumsiri , T. Mizuno , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Naumann-Godo , S. Nishino , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , A. Okumura , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , M. Ozaki , D. Paneque , J. H. Panetta , V. Pelassa , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pierbattista , F. Piron , G. Pivato , T. A. Porter , S. Raino , R. Rando , D. Rastawicki , M. Razzano , A. Readhead , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , L. C. Reyes , J. L. Richards , C. Sbarra , C. Sgro , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , A. Szostek , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , M. Tinivella , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , E. Troja , T. L. Usher , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , Z. Yang , S. Zimmer , R. Moderski , K. Nalewajko , M. Sikora , M. Villata , C. M. Raiteri , H. D. Aller , M. F. Aller , A. A. Arkharov , E. Benitez , A. Berdyugin , D. A. Blinov , M. Boettcher , O. J. A. Bravo Calle , C. S. Buemi , D. Carosati , W. P. Chen , C. Diltz , A. Di Paola , M. Dolci , N. V. Efimova , E. Forn\' , M. A. Gurwell , J. Heidt , D. Hiriart , B. Jordan , G. Kimeridze , T. S. Konstantinova , E. N. Kopatskaya , E. Koptelova , O. M. Kurtanidze , A. Lahteenmaki , E. G. Larionova , L. V. Larionova , V. M. Larionov , P. Leto , E. Lindfors , H. C. Lin , D. A. Morozova , M. G. Nikolashvili , K. Nilsson , M. Oksman , P. Roustazadeh , A. Sievers , L. A. Sigua , A. Sillanpaa , T. Takahashi , L. O. Takalo , M. Tornikoski , C. Trigilio , I. S. Troitsky , G. Umana , E. Angelakis , T. P. Krichbaum , I. Nestoras , D. Riquelme , M. Krips , S. Trippe , A. Arai , K. S. Kawabata , K. Sakimoto , M. Sasada , S. Sato , M. Uemura , M. Yamanaka , M. Yoshida , T. Belloni , G. Tagliaferri , E. W. Bonning , J. Isler , C. M. Urry , E. Hoversten , A. Falcone , C. Pagani , M. Stroh

The first one started in 2012 July 16 (MJD 56124) and the second one in 2013 April 9 (MJD 56391). The multiwavelength data analysis shows that the $\gamma$-ray flare observed in 2012 was not detected in the hard-X ray bands. This result is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-07 Nissim Fraija , José Ignacio Cabrera , Erika Benítez , David Hiriart

We address the highly debated issue of constraining the gamma-ray emission region in blazars from cross-correlation analysis using discrete correlation function between radio and gamma-ray light curves. The significance of the correlations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-07-16 V. Ramakrishnan , T. Hovatta , E. Nieppola , M. Tornikoski , A. Lähteenmäki , E. Valtaoja

Context. Blazar AO 0235+164, located at redshift z = 0.94, has undergone several sharp multi-spectral-range flaring episodes during the last decades. In particular, the episodes peaking in 2008 and 2015, that received extensive…