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The flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1510-089 is one of the most active blazars in $\gamma$-rays, exhibiting phases of very high activity. This study investigates its variability over a decade across a wide range of wavelengths, from radio to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-24 Alfredo Amador-Portes , Abigail García-Pérez , Vahram Chavushyan , Victor M. Patiño-Álvarez

High-redshift blazars are one of the most powerful monsters in the universe and $\gamma$-ray variability carries crucial information of their relativistic jets. In this work we present results of the first systematical temporal analysis of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-02-14 Shang Li , Zi-Qing Xia , Yun-Feng Liang , Neng-Hui Liao , Yi-Zhong Fan

Blazars present highly variable $\gamma$-ray emission. This variability, which can range from a few minutes to several years, is also observed at other wavelengths across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. We make use of the first 12…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 P. Peñil , J. Otero-Santos , M. Ajello , S. Buson , A. Domínguez , L. Marcotulli , N. Torres-Albà , J. Becerra González , J. A. Acosta-Pulido

We present results of variability study of a sample of 20 powerful blazars using Fermi/LAT (0.1--300 GeV) observations. We studied decade-long observations applying various analysis tools such as flux distribution, symmetry analysis, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-07-27 Gopal Bhatta , Niraj Dhital

Black-hole driven relativistic astrophysical jets, such as blazars and gamma-ray bursts (GRBs), are powerful sources of electromagnetic radiation. Their emission is powered by some energy dissipation and particle acceleration mechanism…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-01-16 Dimitrios Giannios , Dmitri A. Uzdensky

We report the results of a 15 GHz (2 cm) multi-epoch VLBA program, begun in 1994 to study the outflow in radio jets ejected from quasars and active galaxies. The observed flow of 208 distinct features measured in 110 quasars, active…

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.…

Relativistic effects dominate the emission of blazar jets complicating our understanding of their intrinsic properties. Although many methods have been proposed to account for them, the variability Doppler factor method has been shown to…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-10-31 I. Liodakis , T. Hovatta , D. Huppenkothen , S. Kiehlmann , W. Max-Moerbeck , A. C. S. Readhead

Blazars exhibit stochastic flux variability across the electromagnetic spectrum, often exhibiting heavy-tailed flux distributions, commonly modeled as lognormal. However, Tavecchio et al. (2020) and Adams et al. (2022) found that the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-09-21 Aryeh Brill

The blazars 3C 454.3, PKS 0537-441 and PKS 2155-304 are traditionally known to be among the most active sources of this class. They emit at all frequencies, up to the gamma-rays, and are good probes of multiwavelength nuclear variability.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-07-25 Elena Pian , Luigi Foschini , Gabriele Ghisellini

We carried out a high time-resolution, multicolour optical observing campaign for eight $\gamma$-ray detected blazars during 2010-2020. We analyze flux variations, correlations between magnitudes and colours on different timescales.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-15 X. Chang , T. F. Yi , D. R. Xiong , C. X. Liu , X. Yang , H. Z. Li , Y. L. Gong , W. W. Na , Y. Li , Z. H. Chen , J. P. Chen , L. S. Mao

We present an update of 3C 273's database hosted by the ISDC, completed with data from radio to gamma-ray observations over the last 10 years. We use this large data set to study the multiwavelength properties of this quasar,especially…

The $\gamma$-ray production mechanism and its localization in blazars are still a matter of debate. The main goal of this paper is to constrain the location of the high-energy emission in the blazar TXS 2013+370 and to study the physical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-02-19 E. Traianou , T. P. Krichbaum , B. Boccardi , R. Angioni , B. Rani , J. Liu , E. Ros , U. Bach , K. V. Sokolovsky , S. Kiehlmann , M. Gurwell , J. A. Zensus

The power spectral density (PSD) of the X-ray emission variability from the accretion disc-corona region of black hole X-ray binaries and active galactic nuclei has a broken power law shape with a characteristic break time-scale. If the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Sagnick Mukherjee , Kaustav Mitra , Ritaban Chatterjee

We report on two surveys of radio-weak AGN to look for radio variability. We find significant variability with an RMS of 10-20% on a timescale of months in radio-quiet and radio-intermediate quasars. This exceeds the variability of radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heino Falcke , Joseph Lehar , Richard Barvainis , Neil M. Nagar , Andrew S. Wilson

A comprehensive analysis of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the gamma-ray emissions of blazars. Utilizing 15 years of Fermi-LAT observations of seven blazars in our sample, we identify both long-term and transient quasi-periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-30 Ajay Sharma , Sakshi Chaudhary , Aishwarya Sarath , Debanjan Bose

The optical and UV variability of the majority of AGN may be related to the reprocessing of rapidly-changing X-ray emission from a more compact region near the central black hole. Such a reprocessing model would be characterised by lags…

We discuss non-thermal emission mechanism of the Crab-like pulsars with both a two-dimensional electrodynamical study and a three-dimensional model. We investigate the emission process in the outer gap accelerator. In the two-dimensional…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 J. Takata , H. -K. Chang

Blazars are known to exhibit variability across a broad range of timescales. This behavior can include periodicity in their $\gamma$-ray emission, whose clear detection remains an ongoing challenge, partly due to the inherent stochasticity…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-07-08 P. Peñil , M. Ajello , S. Buson , A. Domínguez , J. R. Westernacher-Schneider , A. Rico , S. Adhikari , J. Zrake

We study a sample of 30 high-redshift blazars ($z>2.5$) by means of spectra and the radiation mechanism with Fermi Large Area Telescope $\gamma$-ray observations spanning 15 years. Three models -- the power law, power law with an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-27 Fan Wu , Benzhong Dai