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We present results of the optical spectral and photometric observations of the nucleus of Markarian 6 made with the 2.6-m Shajn telescope at the Crimean Astrophysical Observatory. The continuum and emission Balmer line intensities varied…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-04 V. T. Doroshenko , S. G. Sergeev , S. A. Klimanov , V. I. Pronik , Yu. S. Efimov

We compare the rise and decay timescales of $\sim$200 long-term ($\sim$weeks-months) GeV and R-band outbursts and $\sim$25 short-term ($\sim$hr-day) GeV flares in a sample of 10 blazars using light curves from the Fermi-LAT and the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-24 Namrata Roy , Ritaban Chatterjee , Manasvita Joshi , Aritra Ghosh

We present a first systematic time series study of a sample of blazars observed by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite $\textit{TESS}$ spacecraft. By cross matching the positions of the sources in the TESS observations with those from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-23 Vivek Reddy Pininti , Gopal Bhatta , Sagarika Paul , Aman Kumar , Aayushi Rajgor , Rahul Barnwal , Sarvesh Gharat

BL Lac has entered an active state since 2020, with multiwavelength observations revealing intense flares. In this study, we conducted 12-night multicolor optical monitoring using an 85 cm telescope from 2020 September to 2024 June and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-05 Hanxiao Xia , Ziming Wang , Jianghua Wu , Yue Fang , Shiyu Du

In this work, we present the results of our multi-band microvariability study of the famous blazar BL Lac. We performed microvariablity observations of the source in the optical VRI bands for 4 nights in the year 2016. We studied the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-27 Gopal Bhatta , James R. Webb

The blazar zone in quasars is commonly assumed to be located inside the broad-line region at some hundreds of Schwartzschild radii from the central black hole. Now, the simultaneous Fermi/LAT and MAGIC observations of a strong flare in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-15 A. Stamerra , J. Becerra , G. Bonnoli , L. Maraschi , F. Tavecchio , D. Mazin , K. Saito , Y. Tanaka , D. Wood

Blazars are active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointed almost directly at Earth. Blazars are characterized by strong, apparently stochastic flux variability at virtually all observed wavelengths and timescales, from minutes to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-16 Aryeh Brill

OT 355 (4FGL J1734.3 + 3858) is a relatively rarely studied but highly variable, moderate-redshift (z = 0.975) flat-spectrum radio quasar (blazar). With this work, we aim to study its optical variability on different timescales, which can…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-30 R. Bachev , Tushar Tripathi , Alok C. Gupta , A. Kurtenkov , Y. Nikolov , A. Strigachev , S. Boeva , G. Latev , B. Spassov , M. Minev , E. Ovcharov , W. -X. Yang , Yi Liu , J. -H. Fan

Blazars show variability on timescales ranging from minutes to years, the former being comparable to and in some cases even shorter than the light-crossing time of the central black hole. The observed gamma-ray lightcurves can be described…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-10 Michael O' Riordan , Asaf Pe'er , Jonathan C. McKinney

Fermi-LAT LCR provide continuous and regularly-sampled gamma-ray light curves, spanning about 14 years, for a large sample of blazars. The log-normal flux distribution and linear RMS-Flux relation of the light curves for a few of Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-21 Na Wang , Ting-Feng Yi , Liang Wang , Li-Sheng Mao , Zhi-Yuan Pu , Gong-Ming Ning , Wei-Tian Huang , He Lu , Shun Zhang , Yu-Tong Chen , Liang Dong

Blazars display variable emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, with timescales that can range from a few minutes to several years. Our recent work has shown that a sample of five blazars exhibit hints of periodicity with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-20 P. Peñil , J. R. Westernacher-Schneider , M. Ajello , A. Domínguez , S. Buson , J. Otero-Santos , L. Marcotulli , N. Torres-Albà , J. Zrake

We conducted a comprehensive temporal and spectral study of the FSRQ PKS 0805-07 by using the broadband observations from the Fermi-LAT and Swift-XRT/UVOT instruments over the period MJD 54684-60264. The 3-day binned $\gamma$-ray light…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-13 Sikandar A. Dar , Zahir Shah , Ranjeev Misra , Naseer Iqbal

With their emission mainly coming from a relativistic jet pointing towards us, blazars are fundamental sources to study extragalactic jets and their central engines, consisting of supermassive black holes (SMBHs) fed by accretion discs.…

In our previous study, we identified a shift in the synchrotron peak frequency of the blazar B2 1308$+$326 from 10$^{12.9}$ Hz to 10$^{14.8}$ Hz during a flare, suggesting it could be a changing-look blazar (CLB). In this work, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-12-17 Ashwani Pandey , Chen Hu , Jian-Min Wang , Bozena Czerny , Yong-Jie Chen , Yu-Yang Songsheng , Yi-Lin Wang , Hao Zhang , Jesus Aceituno

Due to its powerful radiation over the entire electromagnetic spectrum and its radio jet activity, the blazar 3C273 offers the opportunity to study the physics of $\gamma$-ray emission from active galactic nuclei. Since a historically…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-22 Dae-Won Kim , Sascha Trippe , Evgeniya V. Kravchenko

We present the final installment of an intensive 13-year study of variations of the optical continuum and broad H-beta emission line in the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548. The data base consists of 1530 optical continuum measurements and 1248…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 B. M. Peterson , the International AGN Watch

We present multiwavelength light curves and polarimetric data of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar 3C 273 over 8 years. The wavelength range of our data set extends from radio to gamma-rays. We found that the optical emission in this source is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Sunil Fernandes , Víctor M. Patiño-Álvarez , Vahram Chavushyan , Eric M. Schlegel , José Ramón Valdés

In the paper, we investigate correlation between broad-line and radio variations for broad-line radio galaxy 3C 120. By the z-transformed discrete correlation function method and the model-independent flux randomization/random subset…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-01-10 H. T. Liu , J. M. Bai , J. M. Wang , S. K Li

In an attempt to constrain and understand the emission mechanism of gamma rays, we perform a cross-correlation analysis of 15 blazars using light curves in millimetre, optical and gamma rays. We use discrete correlation function and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-12-15 V. Ramakrishnan , T. Hovatta , M. Tornikoski , K. Nilsson , E. Lindfors , M. Baloković , A. Lähteenmäki , R. Reinthal , L. Takalo
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