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We have studied the rapid X-ray variability of three extragalactic TeV gamma-ray sources; Mrk 421, Mrk 501 and PKS 2155-304. Analyzing the X-ray light curves obtained from ASCA and/or RXTE observations between 1993 and 1998, we have…

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

We study simultaneous soft ($0.7 - 7$ keV) and hard ($7 - 20$ keV) X-ray light curves at a total of eight epochs during $2016 - 2019$ of two TeV blazars Mrk 421 and 1ES 1959+650 observed by the SXT and LAXPC instruments onboard AstroSat.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-27 Susmita Das , Ritaban Chatterjee

We used the data from the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope to characterise the {\gamma}-ray flux variability of blazars on month-like time scales. Our sample consists of 1120 blazars of which 481 are flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-12 Bhoomika Rajput , C. S. Stalin , Suvendu Rakshit

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 compile from literature the broadband SEDs of twelve TeV blazars observed simultaneously or quasi-simultaneously with Fermi/LAT and other instruments. Two SEDs are available for each of the objects and the state is identified as a low or…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jin Zhang , Shuang-Nan Zhang , En-Wei Liang

Blazars display strong variability on multiple timescales and in multiple radiation bands. Their variability is often characterized by power spectral densities (PSDs) and time lags plotted as functions of the Fourier frequency. We develop a…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-19 Justin D. Finke , Peter A. Becker

Blazars are classically divided into the BL Lac (BLL) and Flat-Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) subclasses, corresponding to radiatively inefficient and efficient accretion regimes, respectively, largely based on the equivalent width (EW) of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-23 J. J. Ruan , S. F. Anderson , R. M. Plotkin , W. N. Brandt , T. H. Burnett , A. D. Myers , D. P. Schneider

We report the first results of timing and spectral studies of \textit{Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)} observations of six TeV emitting high-frequency peaked blazars: 1ES 0347$-$121, 1ES 0414$+$009, RGB J0710$+$591, 1ES…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-06-06 Ashwani Pandey , Alok C. Gupta , Paul J. Wiita

A detailed analysis of the optical polarimetric variability of the TeV blazar 1ES 1959+650 from 2007 October 18 to 2011 May 5 is presented. The source showed a maximum and minimum brightness states in the R-band of 14.08$\pm$0.03 mag and…

Aims. We aim to investigate the extreme variability properties of the TeV blazar S4 0954+65 using optical photometric and polarisation observations carried out between 2017 and 2023 using three ground-based telescopes. Methods. We examined…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 Ashwani Pandey , Rumen Bachev , Bozena Czerny , Paul J. Wiita , Alok C. Gupta , Anton Strigachev , Adam Popowicz

Blazars are highly variable sources over timescales that can be as low as minutes. This is the case of the High Energy Peaked BL Lac (HBL) objects showing strong variability in X-rays, which highly correlate with that of the TeV emission.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 I. Donnarumma , A. Tramacere , S. Turriziani , L. Costamante , R. Campana , A. De Rosa , E. Bozzo

Many quasi-simultaneous optical observations of 17 blazars are obtained from previous papers published over the last 19 years in order to investigate the spectral slope variability and understand the radiation mechanism of blazars. The…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-04 Shao Ming Hu , G. Zhao , H. Y. Guo , X. Zhang , Y. G. Zheng

In an optical monitoring program to characterize the variability properties of blazar, we observed 10 sources from the Roma-BZCAT catalogue for 26 nights in V and R bands during October 2014 to June 2015 with two telescopes located in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-08 Nibedita Kalita , Alok C. Gupta , Minfeng Gu

Context. We present the light curves of six BL Lac objects, PKS 0537-441, PKS 0735+17, OJ 287, PKS 2005-489, PKS 2155-304, W Comae, and of the flat spectrum radio quasar PKS 1510-089, as a part of a photometric monitoring program in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Angela Sandrinelli , Stefano Covino , Aldo Treves

We studied the optical variability of 241 BL Lacs and 83 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) from the 4LAC catalog using data from the Tomo-e Gozen Northern Sky Transient Survey, with $\sim$ 50 epochs per blazar on average. We excluded…

The long-term optical and infrared color variability of blazars has been investigated with the SMARTS monitoring data. The sample in this study consists of 49 flat spectrum radio quasars and 22 BL Lac objects. The fractional variability…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-11-11 Bing-Kai Zhang , Xiao-Shan Zhou , Xiao-Yun Zhao , Ben-Zhong Dai

We present results of a variability study in the optical band of 44 newly identified blazar candidates behind the Magellanic Clouds. Our sample contains 27 flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 17 BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs). However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-11-11 Natalia Żywucka , Mariusz Tarnopolski , Markus Böttcher , Łukasz Stawarz , Volodymyr Marchenko

Blazars are jetted active galactic nuclei, with the jet aligned along the observer's line of sight. Their spectral energy distributions are dominated by non-thermal emission, with an underlying thermal component at optical/ultraviolet…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-07 J. Barnard , B. van Soelen , I. P. van der Westhuizen , M. Böttcher , A. Martin-Carrillo , H. M. Schutte , S. van der Merwe , M. Zacharias

We present the results of the \textit{Fermi}-LAT 10-years-long light curves (LCs) modeling of selected blazars: six flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and five BL Lacertae (BL Lacs), examined in 7-, 10-, and 14-day binning. The LCs and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-24 Mariusz Tarnopolski , Natalia Żywucka , Volodymyr Marchenko , Javier Pascual-Granado