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Blazar flares seen by the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) are often followed up by Target of Opportunity (ToO) requests to the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory (Swift). Using flares identified in the daily…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-29 Christina D. Moraitis , D. J. Thompson

We investigate the Fermi LAT gamma-ray and 15 GHz VLBA radio properties of a joint gamma-ray- and radio-selected sample of AGNs obtained during the first 11 months of the Fermi mission (2008 Aug 4 - 2009 Jul 5). Our sample contains the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 M. L. Lister , M. Aller , H. Aller , T. Hovatta , K. I. Kellermann , Y. Y. Kovalev , E. T. Meyer , A. B. Pushkarev , E. Ros , M. Ackermann , E. Antolini , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , K. Bechtol , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , M. Boeck , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , 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 , C. S. Chang , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , J. Chiang , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , J. Conrad , S. Cutini , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , A. Drlica-Wagner , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , E. C. Ferrara , J. Finke , W. B. Focke , P. Fortin , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , S. Germani , N. Giglietto , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , E. Hays , D. Horan , R. E. Hughes , G. Jóhannesson , A. S. Johnson , M. Kadler , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , J. Knödlseder , M. Kuss , J. Lande , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , G. M. Madejski , M. N. Mazziotta , W. McConville , J. E. McEnery , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , T. Mizuno , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Naumann-Godo , S. Nishino , P. L. Nolan , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , M. Ohno , T. Ohsugi , A. Okumura , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , M. Ozaki , D. Paneque , D. Parent , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pierbattista , F. Piron , G. Pivato , S. Rainò , A. Readhead , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , J. L. Richards , S. Ritz , H. F. -W. Sadrozinski , C. Sgrò , M. S. Shaw , E. J. Siskind , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , G. Tosti , A. Tramacere , E. Troja , T. L. Usher , J. Vandenbroucke , V. Vasileiou , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , P. Wang , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , S. Zimmer

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

Using public \fermi LAT and \swift BAT observations, we constructed the first sample of blazars selected at both hard X-rays and gamma-rays. Studying its spectral properties, we find a luminosity dependence of the spectral slopes at both…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2017-02-22 R. M. Sambruna , D. Donato , M. Ajello , L. Maraschi , the GSFC BAT Team

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

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

A statistical scenario is proposed to explain the $\gamma$-ray variability and flares of the Crab nebula, which were observed recently by the Fermi/LAT. In this scenario electrons are accelerated in a series of knots, whose sizes follow a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-03-09 Qiang Yuan , Peng-Fei Yin , Xue-Feng Wu , Xiao-Jun Bi , Siming Liu , Bing Zhang

With ten years of operation and an exceptional dataset, the Fermi-Large Area Telescope allows us to unveil the detailed composition of the extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sky above $\rm 100\,MeV$. In this paper, we derive the intrinsic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-06-09 Lea Marcotulli , Mattia Di Mauro , Marco Ajello

A large sample of blazar from the Candidate Gamma Ray Blazar Survey (CGRaBS) has been observed with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) 40-Meter Telescope at 15GHz. Using these quasi-simultaneous observations, we study the connection…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-15 Walter Max-Moerbeck

High redshift blazars are among the most powerful non-explosive sources in the Universe and play a crucial role in understanding the evolution of relativistic jets. To understand these bright objects, we performed a detailed investigation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-01-29 N. Sahakyan , G. Harutyunyan , S. Gasparyan , D. Israyelyan

The transient emission produced behind internal shocks that are driven by overtaking collisions of a magnetized, relativistic outflow is considered. A self-consistent model capable of describing the structure and dynamics of the shocks and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Amir Levinson

By studying the variability of blazars across the electromagnetic spectrum, it is possible to resolve the underlying processes responsible for rapid flux increases, so-called flares. We report on an extremely bright X-ray flare in the…

The Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi LAT) provides long term systematic monitoring observations of the gamma-ray emission from blazars. The variability properties and the correlation with other wavelength bands are important clues for the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-13 Stefan Larsson

The launching mechanism of the jets of active galactic nuclei is observationally poorly constrained, due to the large distances to these objects and the very small scales (sub-parsec) involved. In order to better constrain theoretical…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-17 I. Marti-Vidal , S. Muller , F. Combes , S. Aalto , A. Beelen , J. Darling , M. Guelin , C. Henkel , C. Horellou , J. M. Marcaide , S. Martin , K. M. Menten , Dinh-V-Trung , M. Zwaan

In order to determine the location of the gamma-ray emission site in blazars, we investigate the time-domain relationship between their radio and gamma-ray emission. Light-curves for the brightest detected blazars from the first 3 years of…

We present a long-term broad-band temporal and spectral study of a TeV BL Lac source TXS 0518+211 by analyzing nearly 16 years (MJD 54682 -- 60670) of simultaneous optical, UV and X-ray light curves from \textit{Swift}-XRT/UVOT and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-06 Avik Kumar Das , Pankaj Kushwaha , Veeresh Singh , Sandeep Kumar Mondal , Goldy Ahuja , Deekshya R. Sarkar

We present a statistical characterization of the $\gamma$-ray emission from the four \emph{Fermi}-LAT sources: FR I radio galaxy NGC 1275, BL Lac Mrk 421, FSRQs B2 1520+31 and PKS 1510-089 detected almost continuously over a time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-09 Pankaj Kushwaha , Atreyee Sinha , Ranjeev Misra , K. P. Singh , E. M. de Gouveia Dal Pino

We study the correlation between the gamma-ray flux F_g, averaged over the first 11 months of Fermi survey and integrated above 100 MeV, and the radio flux density (F_r at 20 GHz) of Fermi sources associated with a radio counterpart in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , L. Foschini , G. Bonnoli

This paper presents light curves and the first systematic characterization of variability of the 106 objects in the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) Bright AGN Sample (LBAS). Weekly light curves obtained during the first 11 months of survey…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 A. A. Abdo

In October 2024, the object BL Lacertae experienced the brightest flaring event in gamma-ray ($>$100 MeV) with a historically bright $\gamma$-ray flux of $\sim$2.59 $\times 10^{-5}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$ with a detection of a 175.7 GeV…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 Joysankar Majumdar , Sakshi Maurya , Raj Prince
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