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Context. The gamma-ray emitting source WISE J141046.00+740511.2 has been associated with a Fermi-LAT detection by crossmatching with Swift/XRT data. It has shown all the canonical observational characteristics of a BL Lac source, including…

We present results of X-ray spectral and time-domain variability analyses of 4 faint, "quiescent" blazars from the Swift-BAT 105-month catalog. We use observations from a recent, 5-month long NICER campaign, as well as archival BAT data.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-02-01 Sergio A. Mundo , Richard Mushotzky

The extragalactic $\gamma$-ray sky is dominated by emission from blazars, a peculiar class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). Many of the $\gamma$-ray sources included in Fermi -Large Area Telescope Third Source catalog (3FGL) are classified…

The Fermi-LAT survey provides a large sample of blazars selected on the strength of their inverse Compton emission. We cross-correlate the first Fermi-LAT catalogue with the CRATES radio catalogue and use this sample to investigate whether…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-06-28 J. A. Gupta , I. W. A. Browne , M. W. Peel

Since late 2007, we have been monitoring a large sample of known and likely gamma-ray-loud blazars at 15 GHz twice per week with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) 40 m Telescope. Our initial sample included the 1158 sources above…

We present new, simultaneous, multifrequency observations of 45 out of the 55 candidate High Frequency Peakers (HFP) selected by Dallacasa et al. (2000), carried out 3 to 4 years after a first set of observations. Our sub-sample consists of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 S. Tinti , D. Dallacasa , G. De Zotti , A. Celotti , C. Stanghellini

We examine the long term (~10 years) gamma-ray variability of blazars observed by EGRET and Fermi and find that for six sources the average flux varied by more than an order of magnitude. For two of these sources (PKS 0208-512 and PKS…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-03-26 Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Ranjeev Misra , A. R. Rao , P. Sreekumar

Blazars are conventionally classified into BL Lac objects and flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), commonly associated with radiatively inefficient and efficient accretion onto supermassive black holes, respectively. Increasing evidence,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-18 Javaid Tantry , Naseer Iqbal

We have utilized the largest sample of $\gamma$-ray selected Fermi flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) ever used (519 sources) to construct the luminosity function and its evolution through the cosmic history. In addition to spanning large…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-02 Garima Rajguru , Lea Marcotulli , Marco Ajello , Mattia Di Mauro , Meg Urry

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

We study the correlation between the gamma-ray flux F_g, averaged over the first 11 months of Fermi survey and integrated above 100 MeV, and the radio flux density (F_r at 20 GHz) of Fermi sources associated with a radio counterpart in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-19 G. Ghirlanda , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , L. Foschini , G. Bonnoli

Fermi-LAT observations provide continuous and regularly-sampled measurements of gamma-ray photon flux for hundreds of blazars. Many of these light curves, spanning almost 15 years, have been thoroughly examined for periodicity in multiple…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-09-26 Polina Novikova , Ekaterina Shishkina , Dmitry Blinov

We present the observational results of multi-colour optical monitoring of eight red blazars from 2003 September to 2004 February. The aim of our monitoring is to investigate the spectral variability as well as the flux variations at short…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Minfeng Gu , C. -U. Lee , Soojong Pak , H. S. Yim , A. B. Fletcher

Blazars' non-thermal emission shows rapid variability across all wavelengths, so spectral energy distributions (SEDs) built from quasi-simultaneous data are crucial for revealing the jets physical properties. In this work, we construct…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-05-22 Yi Zhong , Zhujian Wan , Rui Xue , Hubing Xiao , Dingrong Xiong , Ze-Rui Wang

We analyze the parsec-scale jet kinematics from 2007 June to 2013 January of a sample of $\gamma$-ray bright blazars monitored roughly monthly with the Very Long Baseline Array at 43~GHz. In a total of 1929 images, we measure apparent…

Blazars are a small fraction of all extragalactic sources but, unlike other objects, they are strong emitters across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Recent data in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum have become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-24 D. Gasparrini , E. Cavazzuti , P. Giommi , C. Pittori , S. Colafrancesco , Fermi-LAT collaboration

We present a study of the multiwavelength (MW) variability of the blazar AO 0235+164 based on the radio-to-$\gamma$-ray data covering a long time period from 1997 to 2023. The radio data are represented by the 1-22 GHz measurements from the…

We search through $\gamma$-ray data obtained with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope and find 24 blazars (or candidates) that have a single clear flare event in their 9.5 year long-term light curves.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-08 Gege Wang , Zhongxiang Wang , Liang Chen , Jianeng Zhou , Yi Xing

We present a multiwavelength study of the unidentified Fermi gamma-ray source 0FGL J1830.3+0617, which exhibits variability above 200 MeV on timescales of days to weeks. Within the Fermi 95% confidence error contour lies B1827+0617, a radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-08-12 N. Mirabal , J. P. Halpern

Blazars radiate from relativistic jets launched by a supermassive black hole along our line of sight; the subclass of FSRQs exhibits broad emission lines, a telltale sign of a gas-rich environment and high accretion rate, contrary to the…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-28 Alessandro Paggi , Alfonso Cavaliere , Valerio Vittorini , Filippo D'Ammando , Marco Tavani
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