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We present the time variability properties of a sample of six blazars, AO 0235+164, 3C 273, 3C 279, PKS 1510-089, PKS 2155-304, and 3C 454.3, at optical-IR as well as gamma-ray energies. These observations were carried out as a part of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-27 Ritaban Chatterjee , C. Bailyn , E. W. Bonning , M. Buxton , P. Coppi , G. Fossati , J. Isler , L. Maraschi , C. M. Urry

We report the main results of our six year long intensive optical monitoring on blazars ON 231 (W Com), BL Lac, and 3C 273. Intensive optical monitoring is an indispensable tool to obtain well sampled light curves and thus to understand the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 G. Tosti , S. Ciprini , E. Massaro , M. Maesano , F. Montagni , R. Nesci

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

To search for optical variability on a wide range of timescales, we have carried out photometric monitoring of two flat spectrum radio quasars, 3C 454.3 and 3C 279, plus one BL Lac, S5 0716+714, all of which have been exhibiting remarkably…

Blazars exhibit multiwavelength variability, a phenomenon whose underlying mechanisms remain elusive. This study investigates the origin of such variability through leptonic blazar emission simulations, focusing on stochastic fluctuations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-10 Hannes Thiersen , Michael Zacharias , Markus Böttcher

Context. Monthly-binned gamma-ray light curves of 236 bright gamma-ray sources, particularly blazars, selected from a sample of 2278 high-galactic latitude objects observed with Fermi-LAT, show flux variability characterized by power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-13 Paul R. Burd , Luca Kohlhepp , Sarah M. Wagner , Karl Mannheim , Sara Buson , Jeffrey D. Scargle

In this work, a time-dependent modeling is developed to study the emission properties of blazars in the low state. Motivated by various observations, we speculate and assume that numerous discrete radiation zones throughout the jet of a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-22 Ruo-Yu Liu , Rui Xue , Ze-Rui Wang , Hong-Bin Tan , Markus Böttcher

We present results from the first dedicated study in the time domain of the hard X-ray variability behavior of blazars on long timescales based on $\sim$13 years of continuous hard X-ray data in the 14-195 keV band. We use monthly-binned…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-10 Sergio Mundo , Richard Mushotzky

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

Our recent progress on time-dependent modeling of the multiwavelength spectra and variability of blazars with leptonic and hadronic jet models is reviewed. Special emphasis is placed on X-ray spectral variability of low-frequency peaked…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 M. Boettcher

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 the results of our power spectral density analysis for the BL Lac object OJ\,287, utilizing the {\it Fermi}-LAT survey at high-energy $\gamma$-rays, {\it Swift}-XRT in X-rays, several ground-based telescopes and the {\it Kepler}…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-08-29 A. Goyal , L. Stawarz , S. Zola , V. Marchenko , M. Soida , K. Nilsson , S. Ciprini , A. Baran , M. Ostrowski , P. J. Wiita , Gopal-Krishna , A. Siemiginowska , M. Sobolewska , S. Jorstad , A. Marscher , M. F. Aller H. D. Aller T. Hovatta , D. B. Caton , D. Reichart , K. Matsumoto , K. Sadakane , K. Gazeas , M. Kidger , V. Piirola , H. Jermak , F. Alicavus , K. S. Baliyan , A. Baransky , A. Berdyugin , P. Blay , P. Boumis , D. Boyd , Y. Bufan , M. Campas Torrent , F. Campos , J. Carrillo Gomez , J. Dalessio , B. Debski , D. Dimitrov , M. Drozdz , H. Er , A. Erdem , A. Escartin Perez , V. Fallah Ramazani , A. V. Filippenko , E. Gafton , F. Garcia , V. Godunova , F. Gomez Pinilla , M. Gopinathan , J. B. Haislip , S. Haque , J. Harmanen , R. Hudec , G. Hurst , K. M. Ivarsen , A. Joshi , M. Kagitani , N. Karaman , R. Karjalainen , N. Kaur , D. Kozie l-Wierzbowska , E. Kuligowska , T. Kundera , S. Kurowski , A. Kvammen , A. P. LaCluyze , B. C. Lee , A. Liakos , J. Lozano de Haro , I. Mohammed , J. P. Moore , M. Mugrauer , R. Naves Nogues , A. W. Neely , W. Ogloza , S. Okano , U. Pajdosz , J. C. Pandey , M. Perri , G. Poyner , J. Provencal , T. Pursimo , A. Raj , B. Rajkumar , R. Reinthal , T. Reynolds , J. Saario , S. Sadegi , T. Sakanoi , J. L. Salto Gonzalez , Sameer , A. Heung , O. Simon , M. Siwak , T. Schweyer , F. C. Soldan Alfaro , E. Sonbas , J. Strobl , L. O. Takalo , L. Tremosa Espasa , J. R. Valdes , V. V. Vasylenko , F. Verrecchia , J. R. Webb , M. Yoneda , M. Zejmo , W. Zheng , P. Zielinski , J. Janik , V. Chavushyan , C. C. Cheung , M. Giroletti

Linear time series analysis, mainly the Fourier transform based methods, has been quite successful in extracting information contained in the ever-modulating light curves (Lcs) of active galactic nuclei, and thereby contribute in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-06 Gopal Bhatta , Radim Pánis , Zdeněk Stuchlík

This study presents an analysis of the optical variability of the blazar 1E 1458.8+2249 on diverse timescales using multi-band observations, including observations in the optical BVRI bands carried out with the T60 and T100 telescopes from…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-25 Aykut Özdönmez , Murat Tekkeşinoğlu

We investigate the previously proposed possibility that multi-epoch broadband polarimetry could act as a complement or limited proxy for VLBI observations of blazars, in that the number of polarised emission components in the jet, and some…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-02-20 C. S. Anderson , S. P. O'Sullivan , G. H. Heald , T. Hodgson , A. Pasetto , B. M. Gaensler

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

In this paper, the compiled long-term optical and infrared measurements of some blazars are used to analyze the variation properties and the optical data are used to search for periodicity evidence in the lightcurve by means of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-01-27 J. H. Fan

We present a comprehensive 20-year multiwavelength variability study of the blazar PKS 2155-304, one of the most luminous and extensively monitored high-frequency-peaked BL Lac objects in the southern hemisphere. Using Fermi-LAT…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-04-02 A. Wierzcholska , M. Zacharias

Due to its peculiar and highly variable nature, the blazar 3C 454.3 has been extensively monitored by the WEBT team. Here, we present for the first time these long-term optical flux and color variability results using data acquired in B, V,…

A huge multiwavelength campaign targeting the blazar AO 0235+164 was organized by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) in 2003-2005 to study the variability properties of the source. Monitoring observations were carried out at cm and mm…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 C. M. Raiteri , M. Villata , M. Kadler , M. A. Ibrahimov , O. M. Kurtanidze , V. M. Larionov