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We model rapid variability of multifrequency emission from blazars occurring across the electromagnetic spectrum (from radio to gamma-rays). Lower energy emission is produced by the synchrotron mechanism, whereas higher energy emission is…

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The gamma-ray emission of blazar jets shows a pronounced variability and this feature provides limits to the size and to the speed of the emitting region. We study the gamma-ray variability of bright blazars using data from the first 18…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-28 T. Sbarrato , L. Foschini , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio

Blazar flare data show energy-dependent lags and correlated variability between optical/X-ray and GeV-TeV energies, and follow characteristic trajectories when plotted in the spectral-index/flux plane. This behavior is qualitatively…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. D. Dermer , H. Li , J. Chiang

We present the results of an extensive analysis of the optical, ultraviolet, X-ray and $\gamma$-ray data collected from the observations of the BL Lac objects prototype BL Lacertae carried out over a period of nearly 13 years, between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-20 N. Sahakyan , P. Giommi

We perform a blind search for the variability of the gamma-ray sky in the energy range E>1 GeV using 308 weeks of the Fermi-LAT data. We use the technique based on the comparison of the weekly photon counts and exposures in sky pixels by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-22 M. S. Pshirkov , G. I. Rubtsov

I study the location of the $\gamma$-ray emission in blazar jets by creating a Compton-scattering approximation valid for all anisotropic radiation fields in the Thomson through Klein-Nishina regimes, which is highly accurate and can speed…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Justin D. Finke

We attempt to present a multiwavelength variability and correlation study as well as detailed multi-waveband spectral characteristics of the May 2021 $\gamma$-ray flare of the blazar source TXS 1700+685. The multi-wavelength observation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-08-03 Anuvab Banerjee , Prantik Nandi , Raj Prince , Rukaiya Khatoon , Debanjan Bose

We present the light curve data of a remarkable blazer 3C 454.3 (z=0.859) in optical, X-ray, and gamma-ray bands. Since January 2008, we have been monitoring this object using the 50 cm MITSuME, a optical telescope, and detected several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Yutaro Tachibana , Nobuyuki Kawai , Sean Pike

We have measured multi-band optical flux and colour variations for a sample of 12 low energy peaked blazars on short, day-to-month, timescales. Our sample contains six BL Lacertae objects and six flat spectrum radio quasars. These…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Bindu Rani , Alok C. Gupta , A. Strigachev , R. Bachev , Paul J. Wiita , E. Semkov , E. Ovcharov , B. Mihov , S. Boeva , S. Peneva , B. Spassov , S. Tsvetkova , K. Stoyanov , A. Valcheva

We present a determination of the distributions of gamma-ray photon flux -- the so called LogN-LogS relation -- and photon spectral index for blazars, based on the third extragalactic source catalog of the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope's…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-10-07 J. Singal

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…

We combine time-dependent multi-waveband flux and linear polarization observations with sub-milliarcsecond-scale polarimetric images at lambda=7mm of the BL Lacertae-type blazar OJ287 to locate the gamma-ray emission in prominent flares in…

The broadband spectrum of a BL Lac object, OJ 287, from radio to $\gamma$-rays obtained during a major $\gamma$-ray flare detected by \emph{Fermi} in 2009 are studied to understand the high energy emission mechanism during this episode.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-09-24 Pankaj Kushwaha , S. Sahayanathan , K. P. Singh

Aims. We use a sample of 83 core-dominated active galactic nuclei (AGN) selected from the MOJAVE (Monitoring of Jets in AGN with VLBA Experiments) radio-flux-limited sample and detected with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) to study the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 T. G. Arshakian , J. León-Tavares , M. Boettcher , J. Torrealba , V. H. Chavushyan , M. L. Lister , E. Ros , J. A. Zensus

The RoboPol instrument and the relevant program was developed in order to conduct a systematic study of the optical polarisation variability of blazars. Driven by the discovery that long smooth rotations of the optical polarisation plane…

The parsec-scale radio properties of 232 active galactic nuclei (AGNs), most of which are blazars, detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been observed contemporaneously by the Very Long…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 J. D. Linford , G. B. Taylor , F. K. Schinzel

We study the gamma-ray variability of 13 blazars observed with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). These blazars have the most complete light curves collected during the first 4 years of the Fermi sky survey. We model them with the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Malgorzata A. Sobolewska , Aneta Siemiginowska , Brandon C. Kelly , Krzysztof Nalewajko

We present ~2000 polarimetric and ~3000 photometric observations of 15 gamma-ray bright blazars over a period of 936 days (11/10/2008 - 26/10/2012) using data from the Tuorla blazar monitoring program (KVA DIPOL) and Liverpool Telescope…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-09-15 H. Jermak , I. A. Steele , E. Lindfors , T. Hovatta , K. Nilsson , G. P. Lamb , C. Mundell , U. Barres de Almeida , A. Berdyugin , V. Kadenius , R. Reinthal , L. Takalo

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

During its first 2 years of mission the Fermi-LAT instrument discovered more than 1,800 gamma-ray sources in the 100 MeV to 100 GeV range. Despite the application of advanced techniques to identify and associate the Fermi-LAT sources with…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-03-02 David Salvetti