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This study explores transient quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the $\gamma$-ray emission of two blazars, PMN J0531$-$4827 and PKS 1502+106, using over a decade of Fermi Large Area Telescope observations. The analysis focuses on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-20 P. Penil , J. Otero-Santos , A. Banerjee , S. Buson , A. Rico , M. Ajello , S. Adhikari

Transient quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) are extremely interesting observational phenomena. However, the precise physical mechanisms leading to their generation are still hotly debated. We performed a systematic search for transient QPO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-01 Junping Chen , Jinjie Yu , Weitian Huang , Nan Ding

The continuous monitoring capability of Fermi-LAT has enabled the exploration of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in the $\gamma$-ray light curve of blazar that has given a new perspective to probe these sources over a wide range of time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-05 Avik Kumar Das , Raj Prince , Alok C. Gupta , Pankaj Kushwaha

Blazars exhibit variable emission on diverse timescales. Some light curves show signs of quasiperiodic oscillations (QPOs), which may encode clues regarding the physical processes behind the emission or point to supermassive binary black…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-24 M. A. Hashad , A. Hammad , Amr A. EL-Zant

In this work, we report periodicity search analyses in the gamma-ray light curve of the blazar S4 0954+658 monitoring undertaken by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT). Four analytical methods and a tool are adopted to detect any periodic…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-05-31 Yunlu Gong , Shiting Tian , Liancheng Zhou , Tingfeng Yi , Jun Fang

We systematically search for quasiperiodic oscillatory (QPO) signals on the month timescale among the 1525 sources given in the Fermi Large Area Telescope Light Curve Repository. We find a transient QPO of 31.3$\pm$1.8 days in the gamma-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Junping Chen , Tingfeng Yi , Yunlu Gong , Xing Yang , Zhihui Chen , Xin Chang , Lisheng Mao

While there has been an increase in interest in the possibility of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in blazars, the search has hitherto been restricted to sources with well-sampled light curves. Objects with light curves that include gaps…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-09-18 M. A. Hashad , Amr A. El-Zant , Y. Abdou , H. M. Badran

Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) originating from innermost regions of blazars can provide unique perspective of some of the burning issues in blazar studies including disk-jet connection, launch of relativistic jets from the central…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-12 Gopal Bhatta

We conducted a comprehensive variability analysis of the blazar PKS 2255-282 using Fermi-LAT observations spanning over four years, from MJD 57783.5 to 59358.5. Our analysis revealed a transient quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-08-26 Ajay Sharma , Anuvab Banerjee , Avik Kumar Das , Avijit Mandal , Debanjan Bose

In a previous paper, we reported evidence for quasi-periodicities in the \textsl{TESS} light curves of BL Lacerate and two other blazars found serendipitously in the SDSS AGN catalog. In this work, we find tentative evidence for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-02-08 Ashutosh Tripathi , Krista Lynne Smith , Paul J. Wiita , Robert V. Wagoner

Study of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPO) in blazars is one of the crucial methods for gaining insights into the workings of the central engines of active galactic nuclei. QPOs with various characteristic time scales have been observed in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-03-08 Banerjee , Anuvab , Sharma , Ajay , Mnadal , Avijit , Das , Avik Kumar , Bhatta , Gopal , Bose , Debanjan

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

Variability is a typical observation feature of Fermi blazars, sometimes it shows quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO). In this work, we obtained 5-day binned light curves (with a time coverage of $\sim$ 12.9 yr) for S5 1044+71 based on Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-27 G. G. Wang , J. T. Cai , J. H. Fan

We investigate the possible presence of quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) signals in 2103 blazars from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF) time-domain survey. We detect a low-frequency QPO signal in five blazars observed over these…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2023-10-05 Anuvab Banerjee , Vibhore Negi , Ravi Joshi , Nagendra Kumar , Paul J. Wiita , Hum Chand , Nikita Rawat , Xue-Bing Wu , Luis C. Ho

In this work, we analyzed the long term gamma-ray data by a Fermi Large Area Telescope (Fermi-LAT) of blazar S2 0109+22, ranging from 2008 to 2023. The quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) of blazars aided in investigating the physical…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-07-17 Haoyang Zhang , Fan Wu , Benzhong Dai

We analyze the quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) of the historical light curve of FSRQs PKS 0405-385 detected by the Fermi LAT from August 2008 to November 2021. To identify and determine the QPO signal of PKS 0405-385 in the $\gamma$-ray…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-06-15 Yunlu Gong , Liancheng Zhou , Min Yuan , Haiyun Zhang , Tingfeng Yi , Jun Fang

The search for periodic signals from blazars has become an actively pursued field of research in recent years. This is because periodic signals bring us information about the processes occurring near the innermost regions of blazars, which…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-02-11 Gopal Bhatta

Blazar variability may be driven by stochastic processes. On the other hand, quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) behaviors are recently reported to be detected in $\it{Fermi}$-LAT data of blazars. However, the significances of these QPO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-02-10 Shenbang Yang , Dahai Yan , Pengfei Zhang , Benzhong Dai , Li Zhang

The detection of quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) in the light curves of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) can provide insights into the physics of the super-massive black-holes (SMBHs) powering these systems and could represent a signature…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-04-05 Helena X. Ren , Matteo Cerruti , Narek Sahakyan

We present periodicity search analyses on the $\gamma$-ray lightcurve of the TeV blazar PKS 1510-089 observed by the \textit{Fermi} Large Area Telescope. We report the detection of two transient quasi-periodic oscillations: a 3.6-day QPO…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-12-22 Abhradeep Roy , Arkadipta Sarkar , Anshu Chatterjee , Alok C. Gupta , Varsha R. Chitnis , Paul J. Wiita
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