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Variable $\gamma$-ray flares upto minute timescales reflect extreme particle acceleration sites. However, for high-redshift blazars, the detection of such rapid variations remains limited by current telescope sensitivities. Gravitationally…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-14 Sushmita Agarwal , Amit Shukla , Pranjali Sharma

Among active galactic nuclei, blazars show extreme variability properties. We here investigate the case of the BL Lac object S4 0954+65 with data acquired in 2019-2020 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and by the Whole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 C. M. Raiteri , M. Villata , V. M. Larionov , S. G. Jorstad , A. P. Marscher , Z. R. Weaver

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

We analyze X-ray light curves of the blazars Mrk 421, PKS 2155-304, and 3C 273 using observations by the Soft X-ray Telescope on board AstroSat and archival XMM-Newton data. We use light curves of length 30-90 ks each from 3-4 epochs for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-27 Joy Bhattacharyya , Ritesh Ghosh , Ritaban Chatterjee , Nabanita Das

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

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

Almost 10 yr of $\gamma$-ray observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) have revealed extreme $\gamma$-ray outbursts from flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), temporarily making these objects the brightest $\gamma$-ray emitters…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-31 Manuel Meyer , Jeffrey D. Scargle , Roger D. Blandford

Characterisation of the long-term variations in the broad line region in a luminous blazar, where Comptonisation of broad-line emission within a relativistic jet is the standard scenario for production of gamma-ray emission that dominates…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-04 Krzysztof Nalewajko , Alok C. Gupta , Mai Liao , Krzysztof Hryniewicz , Maitrayee Gupta , Minfeng Gu

The parsec-scale radio properties of blazars detected by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on board the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope have been investigated using observations with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA). Comparisons between LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 J. D. Linford , G. B. Taylor , R. W. Romani , J. F. Helmboldt , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , J. L. Richards

Blazars are among the most powerful extragalactic objects, as a sub-class of active galactic nuclei. They launch relativistic jets and their emitted radiation shows strong variability across the entire electro-magnetic spectrum. The…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-08-12 C. M. Fromm , L. Fuhrmann , M. Perucho

Blazars are radio-loud active galactic nuclei well known for their non thermal emission spanning a wide range of frequencies. The Roma-BZCAT is, to date, the most comprehensive list of these sources. We performed the cross-match of several…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-04 A. Maselli , F. Massaro , R. D'Abrusco , G. Cusumano , V. La Parola , A. Segreto , G. Tosti

Recent population studies have shown that the variability Doppler factors can adequately describe blazars as a population. We use the flux density variations found within the extensive radio multi-wavelength datasets of the F-GAMMA program,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 I. Liodakis , N. Marchili , E. Angelakis , L. Fuhrmann , I. Nestoras , I. Myserlis , V. Karamanavis , T. P. Krichbaum , A. Sievers , H. Ungerechts , J. A. Zensus

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

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei with relativistic jets pointing toward the observer. They are notable for their flux variability at all observed wavelengths and timescales. Together with simultaneous measurements at lower…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-02-21 Hermann Stolte , Jonas Sinapius , Iftach Sadeh , Elisa Pueschel , Matthias Weidlich , David Berge

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

We compare the \gamma-ray light curves of the blazars, constructed with data provided by the Fermi Large Area Telescope, with flux and polarization variations in the VLBI core and bright superluminal knots obtained via monthly monitoring…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 S. Jorstad , A. Marscher , I. Agudo , B. Harrison

A systematic search for cyclical sources of gamma-ray emission on the period range from days to years in the Fermi-LAT sky is performed. Looking for cyclical emission, the sky is binned into equal-area pixels and the generalised…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-20 D. A. Prokhorov , A. Moraghan

We present the results obtained from our campaign to characterize the intra-night-optical variability properties of blazars detected by the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope. This involves R-band monitoring observations of a sample of 18…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-02-16 K. Subbu Ulaganatha Pandian , A. Natarajan , C. S. Stalin , Ashwani Pandey , S. Muneer , B. Natarajan

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope provides an unprecedented opportunity to study gamma-ray blazars. To capitalize on this opportunity, beginning in late 2007, about a year before the start of LAT…

Blazars are the most active extragalactic gamma-ray sources. They show sporadic bursts of activity, lasting from hours to months. In this work we present a 10-year analysis of a sample of bright sources detected by Fermi-LAT (100 MeV - 300…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 J. R. Sacahui , A. V. Penacchioni , A. Marinelli , A. Sharma , M. Castro , J. M. Osorio , M. A. Morales