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The 3rd EGRET Catalog of High-energy Gamma-ray Sources contains 170 unidentified sources, and there is great interest in the nature of these sources. One means of determining source class is the study of flux variability on time scales of…

We investigate the use of optical variability to identify and study Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the GOODS-South field. A sample of 22 mid-infrared power law sources and 102 X-ray sources with optical counterparts in the HST ACS images…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 Alison Klesman , Vicki Sarajedini

Variability detected in galaxies is usually attributed to their active galactic nuclei (AGNs). While all AGNs are intrinsically variable, the AGN unification model predicts that type~2 AGNs rarely vary because their engines are blocked by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-17 Bangzheng Sun , Haojing Yan , Wei Leong Tee , Feige Wang

The revision of the fourth Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) catalog of gamma-ray point sources (rev4FGL) revealed that the gamma-ray sky is populated by emerging populations of jetted active galactic nuclei (AGN) other than blazars and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-27 Luigi Foschini

The X-ray variability of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) has been most often investigated with studies of individual, nearby, sources, and only a few ensemble analyses have been applied to large samples in wide ranges of luminosity and…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-12-21 F. Vagnetti , S. Turriziani , D. Trevese

An incremental version of the fourth catalog of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) detected by the Fermi-Large Area Telescope is presented. This version (4LAC-DR3) derives from the third data release of the 4FGL catalog based on 12 years of E>50…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-25 LAT collaboration , Marco Ajello , Luca Baldini , Jean Ballet , Denis Bastieri , Josefa Becerra Gonzalez , Ronaldo Bellazzini , Alessandra Berretta , Elisabetta Bissaldi , Raffaella Bonino , Ari Brill , Philippe Bruel , Sara Buson , Regina Caputo , Patrizia Caraveo , Teddy Cheung , Graziano Chiaro , Nicolo Cibrario , Stefano Ciprini , Milena Crnogorcevic , Sara Cutini , Filippo D'Ammando , Salvatore De Gaetano , Niccolo Di Lalla , Leonardo Di Venere , Alberto Dominguez , Vandad Fallah Ramazani , Elizabeth Ferrara , Alessio Fiori , Yasushi Fukazawa , Stefan Funk , Piergiorgio Fusco , Viviana Gammaldi , Fabio Gargano , Simone Garrappa , Dario Gasparrini , Nico Giglietto , Francesco Giordano , Marcello Giroletti , David Green , Isabelle Grenier , Sylvain Guiriec , Deirdre Horan , Xian Hou , Taishu Kayanoki , Michael Kuss , Stefan Larsson , Luca Latronico , Tiffany Lewis , Jian Li , Ioannis Liodakis , Francesco Longo , Francesco Loparco , Benoit Lott , Michael Lovellette , Pasquale Lubrano , Grzegorz Madejski , Simone Maldera , Alberto Manfreda , Guillem Marti-Devesa , Mario Nicola Mazziotta , Isabella Mereu , Peter Michelson , Nestor Mirabal , Warit Mitthumsiri , Tsunefumi Mizuno , Maria Elena Monzani , Aldo Morselli , Igor Moskalenko , Michela Negro , Roopesh Ojha , Monica Orienti , Elena Orlando , Jonathan F. Ormes , Zhiyuan Pei , Harold A. Pena-Herazo , Massimo Persic , Melissa Pesce-Rollins , Vahe Petrosian , Roberta Pillera , Helen Poon , Troy Porter , Giacomo Principe , Silvia Raino , Riccardo Rando , Bindu Rani , Massimiliano Razzano , Soebur Razzaque , Anita Reimer , Olaf Reimer , Jeff Scargle , Lorenzo Scotton , Davide Serini , Carmelo Sgro , Eric J. Siskind , Gloria Spandre , Paolo Spinelli , Dan Suson , Hiro Tajima , Diego F. Torres , Janeth Valverde , Hend Yassin , Gabrijela Zaharijas

Variability has proven to be a powerful tool to detect active galactic nuclei (AGN) in multi-epoch surveys. The new-generation facilities expected to become operational in the next few years will mark a new era in time-domain astronomy and…

We have investigated the differences in apparent opening angles between the parsec-scale jets of the active galactic nuclei (AGN) detected by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) during its first 24 months of operations and those of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-04 A. B. Pushkarev , M. L. Lister , Y. Y. Kovalev , T. Savolainen

In this paper we give a brief review of the astrophysics of active galactic nuclei (AGN). After a general introduction motivating the study of AGNs, we discuss our present understanding of the inner workings of the central engines, most…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-01-18 Henric Krawczynski , Ezequiel Treister

The detection of new clusters of galaxies or the study of known clusters of galaxies in X-rays can be complicated by the presence of X-ray point sources, the majority of which will be active galactic nuclei (AGN). This can be addressed by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-26 Ben J. Maughan , Thomas H. Reiprich

We analyze 18 sources that were found to show interesting properties of periodicity, very soft spectra and/or large long-term variability in X-rays in our project of classification of sources from the 2XMMi-DR3 catalog but were poorly…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 Dacheng Lin , Natalie A. Webb , Didier Barret

We study the long-term ($\approx$30 years) radio variability of 43 radio bright AGNs by exploiting the data base of the University of Michigan Radio Astronomy Observatory (UMRAO) monitoring program. We model the periodograms (temporal power…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-01-18 Jongho Park , Sascha Trippe

The nature of the obscuring material in active galactic nuclei (AGN) can be studied by measuring changes in the line-of-sight column density, $N_{\rm H,los}$, over time. This can be accomplished by monitoring AGN over long periods of time…

We present our statistical study of near infrared (NIR) variability of X-ray selected Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) in the COSMOS field, using UltraVISTA data. This is the largest sample of AGN light curves in YJHKs bands, making possible to…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-11-15 P. Sánchez , P. Lira , R. Cartier , V. Pérez , N. Miranda , C. Yovaniniz , P. Arévalo , B. Milvang-Jensen , J. Fynbo , J. Dunlop , P. Coppi , S. Marchesi

Active Galactic Nuclei are considered as possible sites of cosmic ray acceleration and some of them have been observed as high energy gamma ray emitters (Blazars). There naturally comes an appealing idea that the acceleration of the highest…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-03 G. Henri , G. Pelletier , P. O. Petrucci , N. Renaud

Over the past few decades, our knowledge of jets produced by active galactic nuclei (AGN) has greatly progressed thanks to the development of very-long-baseline interferometry (VLBI). Nevertheless, the crucial mechanisms involved in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-22 B. Boccardi , T. P. Krichbaum , E. Ros , J. A. Zensus

The Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope with its main instrument on-board, the Large Area Telescope (LAT), opened a new era in the study of high-energy emission from Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN). When combined with contemporaneous ground- and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-01 Filippo D'Ammando

The High Altitude Water Cherenkov Observatory (HAWC) has a wide field-of-view (FOV, $\sim$2sr) and a high duty cycle ($\sim$95\%), which make it a powerful survey and monitoring experiment for sources of TeV gamma rays. We present a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-21 Zhixiang Ren , Robert Lauer , John A. J. Matthews , the HAWC Collaboration

Analysis is presented on 15 months of data taken with the Large Area Telescope (LAT) on the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope for 11 non-blazar AGNs, including 7 FRI radio galaxies and 4 FRII radio sources consisting of 2 FRII radio galaxies…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT Collaboration