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We present the analysis results of flux and spectral variability of the blazar OP 313 across intra-night to short-term timescales using BVRI photometric data, gathered over 25 nights from Nov 2024 to May 2025, using two optical telescopes…

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We have used all 20 archival XMM-Newton observations of PKS 2155-304 with simultaneous X-ray and UV/optical data to study its long term flux and spectral variability. We find significant variations, in all bands, on time-scales of years…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Jai Bhagwan , Alok C. Gupta , I. E. Papadakis , Paul J. Wiita

A ToO observation of the TeV-emitting blazar Mrk 421 with INTEGRAL was triggered in June 2006 by an increase of the RXTE count rate to more than 30 mCrab. The source was then observed with all INTEGRAL instruments with the exception of the…

We present 10 years of R-band monitoring data of 31 northern blazars which were either detected at very high energy (VHE) gamma rays or listed as potential VHE gamma-ray emitters. The data comprise 11820 photometric data points in the…

Context:The HAGAR Telescope Array at Hanle, Ladakh has been regularly monitoring the nearby blazar Mkn 421 for the past 7yrs. Aims: Blazars show flux variability in all timescales across the electromagnetic spectrum. While there is abundant…

Blazars can be divided into two sub-classes namely high energy and low energy peaked blazars. In spectral energy distribution, the first synchrotron hump of the former class peaks in UV/X-rays and in IR/optical bands for the latter class.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Alok C. Gupta , Nibedita Kalita , Haritma Gaur , Kalpana Duorah

The last years have seen a revolution in ground-based gamma-ray detectors. We can now detect the spectra of nearby TeV blazars like Mrk 421 and 501 out to approximately 20 TeV, and during the strongest flares, we can now follow fluctuations…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Paolo S. Coppi , Felix A. Aharonian

We observed the TeV blazar 1ES 1218+304 with the X-ray astronomy satellite Suzaku in May 2006. At the beginning of the two-day continuous observation, we detected a large flare in which the 5-10 keV flux changed by a factor of ~2 on a…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 R. Sato , J. Kataoka , T. Takahashi , G. M. Madejski , S. Rugamer , S. J. Wagner

We present a study of the flux distribution of a sample of 15 Intermediate and Low-energy peaked blazars using XMM-Newton observations in a total of 57 epochs on short-term timescales. We characterise the X-ray variability of all of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-07 Kiran Wani , Haritma Gaur

We searched for a short-term X-ray variability of the M87 core and jet from archival X-ray data with long exposure data taken by the Suzaku, Chandra, and NuSTAR telescopes. We found the intraday variability for the Suzaku data obtained in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-04 Ryo Imazawa , Yasushi Fukazawa , Hiromitsu Takahashi

We present a comprehensive analysis of the 17-year Fermi-LAT observational data of Mrk 421 to investigate the spectral variations in the $\gamma$-ray bands. The light curve of the source in the 0.1--1000 GeV band with a 14-day time bin…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-18 Rui-Qi Huang , Xin-Ke Hu , Yu-Wei Yu , Ji-Shun Lian , Jin Zhang

We report results from our monitoring of the BL Lac object Mrk 421 in the near-IR $J$ band. The observations, aimed at studying the intraday variability (IDV) of the object, were carried out systematically over an extended (and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 A. C. Gupta , D. P. K. Banerjee , N. M. Ashok , U. C. Joshi

We conducted a detailed long-term spectral and temporal study of flat spectrum radio quasar 4C +01.02, by using the multi-wavelength observations from Fermi-LAT, Swift-XRT, and Swift-UVOT. The $2$-day bin $\gamma$-ray lightcurve in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-22 Malik Zahoor , Shah Zahir , Sunder Sahayanathan , Naseer Iqbal , Aaqib Manzoor

We report on long-term multi-wavelength monitoring of blazar Mrk 421 by the GASP-WEBT collaboration and Steward Observatory, and by the Swift and Fermi satellites. We study the source behaviour in the period 2007-2015, characterized by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. I. Carnerero , C. M. Raiteri , M. Villata , J. A. Acosta-Pulido , V. M. Larionov , P. S. Smith , F. D'Ammando

In this work, we study the short term flaring activity from the high synchrotron peaked blazar Mrk 501 detected by the FACT and H.E.S.S. telescopes in the energy range 2-20 TeV during June 23-24, 2014 (MJD 56831.86-56831.94). We revisit…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-12-26 K K Singh , H Bhatt , S Bhattacharyya , N Bhatt , A K Tickoo , R C Rannot

The synchrotron peak of the X-ray bright High Energy Peaked Blazar (HBL) PKS 2155$-$304 occurs in the UV-EUV region and hence its X-ray emission (0.6--10 keV) lies mostly in the falling part of the synchrotron hump. We aim to study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Haritma Gaur , Liang Chen , R. Misra , S. Sahayanathan , M. F. Gu , P. Kushwaha , G. C. Dewangan

The blazar Mrk 421 is one of the closest, brightest and fastest varying source in the extragalactic X-ray/TeV sky. In the last years, many multi-wavelength campaigns have been carried out to study the correlation between the very high…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-27 Barbara Patricelli , Magdalena González , Nissim Fraija

We present analyses of Suzaku XIS light curves and spectra of the BL Lac object OJ 287 with observations positioned primarily around proposed recurrent optical outbursts. The first two observations were performed in 2007 April 10 - 13…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-06 Dongtao Zhou , Zhongli Zhang , Alok C. Gupta , Pankaj Kushwaha , Paul J. Wiita , Minfeng Gu , Haiguang Xu

This paper presents the gamma-ray spectral and timing results from the long-term regular observations of Mrk 421 with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard Fermi during 2008 August - 2023 August. We discerned six periods the relatively…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-03-05 B. Kapanadze , A. Gurchumelia , M. Aller