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We report a detailed analysis of $\gamma$-ray data of 2FGL J0509.9+1802 observed by the Large Area Telescope on board {\it Fermi} satellite, especially focusing on April 2013 when extraordinary $\gamma$-ray variability has been detected.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-22 N. H. Liao , J. M Bai

The gamma-ray-detected blazar 3C 454.3 exhibits dramatic flux and polarization variations in the optical and near-infrared bands. In December 2010, the object emitted a very bright outburst. We monitored it for approximately four years…

Supermassive black holes launch highly relativistic jets with velocities reaching Lorentz factors as high as $\Gamma>50$. How the jets accelerate to such high velocities and where along the jet do they reach terminal velocity are open…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-27 I. Liodakis , T. Hovatta , M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , M. A. Gurwell , A. Lähteenmäki , M. Tornikoski

We present the results of the observational study of the blazar S5 0716+716 in the optical bands B, V, R, and I between March 2019 and August 2023 to investigate its variability on diverse time-scales. The blazar was followed up by the T60…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-15 Ergün Ege , Aykut Özdönmez , Aditi Agarwal , Tansel Ak

We report on the variations of the physical parameters of the jet observed in the blazar Mrk 421, and discuss the origin of X-ray flares in the jet, based on the analysis of the several spectral energy distributions (SEDs). The SEDs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-05-27 Yurika Yamada , Makoto Uemura , Ryosuke Itoh , Yasushi Fukazawa , Masanori Ohno , Fumiya Imazato

We present results from RXTE data obtained during a systematic monitoring program of four Seyfert galaxies (NGC5548, NGC5506, MCG-6-30-15 and NGC4051). We studied the variability of three hardness ratios derived from the light curves in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. E. Papadakis , P. O. Petrucci , L. Maraschi , I. M. McHardy , P. Uttley , F. Haardt

We report on the variation in the optical polarization of the blazar PKS 1749+096 observed in 2008--2015. The degree of polarization (PD) tends to increase in short flares having a time-scale of a few days. The object favors a polarization…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Makoto Uemura , Ryosuke Itoh , Ioannis Liodakis , Dmitry Blinov , Masanori Nakayama , Longyin Xu , Naoko Sawada , Hsiang-Yun Wu , Issei Fujishiro

We report on multiwavelength observations of the blazar PKS 0537-441 (z = 0.896) obtained from microwaves through gamma rays by SMA, REM, ATOM, Swift and Fermi during 2008 August-2010 April. Strong variability has been observed in gamma…

OJ287 is a BL Lac object at redshift z=0.306 that has shown double-peaked bursts at regular intervals of ~12 yr during the last ~ 40 yr. Due to this behavior, it has been suggested that OJ287 might host a close supermassive binary black…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2010-08-19 C. Villforth , K. Nilsson , J. Heidt , T. Pursimo

Various quasi-periods for the long-term variability of the radio emission, optical emission, and structural position angle of the inner part of the parsec-scale jet in the blazar 0716+714 have been detected. The relationships between these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-10-22 Marina S. Butuzova

In July 2021, PKS 1510-089 exhibited a significant flux drop in the high-energy gamma-ray (by a factor 10) and optical (by a factor 5) bands and remained in this low state throughout 2022. Similarly, the optical polarization in the source…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-09 F. Aharonian , F. Ait Benkhali , J. Aschersleben , H. Ashkar , M. Backes , V. Barbosa Martins , J. Barnard , R. Batzofin , Y. Becherini , D. Berge , K. Bernloehr , B. Bi , M. de Bony de Lavergne , M. Boettcher , C. Boisson , J. Bolmont , J. Borowska , M. Bouyahiaoui , F. Bradascio , M. Breuhaus , R. Brose , A. M. Brown , F. Brun , B. Bruno , T. Bulik , C. Burger-Scheidlin , S. Caroff , S. Casanova , R. Cecil , J. Celic , M. Cerruti , T. Chand , S. Chandra , A. Chen , J. Chibueze , O. Chibueze , G. Cotter , J. Damascene Mbarubucyeye , I. D. Davids , A. Djannati-Atai , A. Dmytriiev , V. Doroshenko , K. Egberts , S. Einecke , J. -P. Ernenwein , S. Fegan , G. Fontaine , M. Fuessling , S. Funk , S. Gabici , S. Ghafourizadeh , G. Giavitto , D. Glawion , J. F. Glicenstein , P. Goswami , G. Grolleron , L. Haerer , W. Hofmann , T. L. Holch , M. Holler , D. Horns , M. Jamrozy , F. Jankowsky , V. Joshi , I. Jung-Richardt , E. Kasai , K. Katarzyski , R. Khatoon , B. Khelifi , W. Klu/'zniak , Nu. Komin , K. Kosack , D. Kostunin , R. G. Lang , S. Le Stum , F. Leitl , A. Lemiere , J. -P. Lenain , F. Leuschner , A. Luashvili , J. Mackey , V. Marandon , P. Marchegiani , G. Marti-Devesa , R. Marx , A. Mehta , M. Meyer , A. Mitchell , R. Moderski , L. Mohrmann , A. Montanari , E. Moulin , M. de Naurois , J. Niemiec , A. Priyana Noel , P. O'Brien , S. Ohm , L. Olivera-Nieto , E. de Ona Wilhelmi , M. Ostrowski , S. Panny , M. Panter , G. Peron , D. A. Prokhorov , G. Puehlhofer , M. Punch , A. Quirrenbach , P. Reichherzer , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , H. Ren , F. Rieger , G. Rowell , B. Rudak , H. Rueda Ricarte , E. Ruiz-Velasco , V. Sahakian , H. Salzmann , D. A. Sanchez , A. Santangelo , M. Sasaki , F. Schuessler , H. M. Schutte , U. Schwanke , J. N. S. Shapopi , H. Sol , A. Specovius , S. Spencer , L. Stawarz , R. Steenkamp , S. Steinmassl , C. Steppa , I. Sushch , H. Suzuki , T. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , R. Terrier , N. Tsuji , C. van Eldik , B. van Soelen , M. Vecchi , J. Veh , J. Vink , T. Wach , S. J. Wagner , A. Wierzcholska , M. Zacharias , D. Zargaryan , A. A. Zdziarski , A. Zech , S. Zouari , N. Zywucka , D. A. H. Buckley , J. Cooper , D. Groenewald

We study the effect of variable jet bulk Lorentz factors, i.e., either jet acceleration or deceleration, on partially synchrotron self-absorbed radio spectra from cores of radio-loud active galactic nuclei and black-hole binaries in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-21 Andrzej A. Zdziarski

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

We report the results of optical monitoring for a sample of 11 blazars including 10 BL Lacs and 1 Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ). We have measured the multiband optical flux and colour variations in these blazars on intra-day and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-21 Haritma Gaur , Alok C. Gupta , A. Strigachev , R. Bachev , E. Semkov , Paul J. Wiita , S. Peneva , S. Boeva , L. Slavcheva-Mihova , B. Mihov , G. Latev , U. S. Pandey

We study the long-term behavior of the bright gamma-ray blazar PKS 0402-362. Over a span of approximately 12.5 years, from August 2008 to January 2021, we gathered Fermi-LAT temporal data and identified three distinct periods of intense…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-08-29 Avik kumar Das , Sandeep Kumar Mondal , Raj Prince

The bright radio source S5 0716+714, which is usually classified as a BL Lac object, is one of the most intensively studied blazar. S5 0716+714 demonstrates extremely peculiar properties, such as the shortest time-scale of optical and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-03-31 E. Shablovinskaya , V. Afanasiev

We have analyzed the total intensity, spectral index, linear polarization, and RM distributions at pc scale for the quasar 1604+159. The source was observed in 2002 and 2020 with the VLBA. Combining the MOJAVE results, we studied the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-02 Xu-Zhi Hu , Xiaoyu Hong , Wei Zhao , Liang Chen , Wei-Yang Wang , Linhui Wu

We present results of five years of optical (UBVRI) observations of the very-high-energy gamma-ray blazar 1ES 1011+496 at the MDM Observatory. We calibrated UBVRI magnitudes of five comparison stars in the field of the object. Most of our…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 M. Boettcher , B. Hivick , J. Dashti , K. Fultz , S. Gupta , C. Gusbar , M. Joshi , A. Lamerato , T. Peery , D. Principe , A. Rajasingam , P. Roustazadeh , J. Shields

Using millimeter-very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 from August 2008 to September 2013, we investigate variations in the core flux density and orientation of the sub-parsec scale jet i.e.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-11 B. Rani , T. P. Krichbaum , A. P. Marscher , S. G. Jorstad , J. A. Hodgson , L. Fuhrmann , J. A. Zensus

Motivated by recent reports of strongly correlated radio and X-ray variability in 3C279 (Grandi, etal 1995), we have computed the relative amplitudes of variations in the synchrotron flux at $\nu$ and the self-Compton X-ray flux at 1 keV…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Mark W. Sincell