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Quasi-periodic oscillations (QPOs) have been detected in many Fermi-detected bright blazars. In this letter, we report multiple QPOs detected in a non-blazar AGN PKS 0521-36 searched over the entire 15 years of Fermi-LAT data. QPOs are…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-12-21 Ajay Sharma , Raj Prince , 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

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

This study explores the detection of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in blazars as a method to identify kink events within their jets, utilizing both $\gamma$-ray and polarized light observations. Focusing on a sample of 9 blazars, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-15 P. Peñil , H. Zhang , J. Otero-Santos , M. Ajello , S. Buson , S. Adhikari , A. Rico , J. Escudero Pedrosa , I. Agudo , D. Morcuende , A. Sota , V. Casanova , F. J. Aceituno

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

Based on the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF), we selected 10 blazars as our sample sources. Among these, we found four blazars (J 0923.5+4125, J 1221.3+3010, J 1503.5+4759, and J 1652.7+4024) showing possible indications of quasi periodic…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-12-02 Na Wang , Guowei Ren , Shun Zhang , Tingfeng Yi , Tong Liu , Mouyuan Sun

Blazars display variable emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, with timescales that can range from a few minutes to several years. Our recent work has shown that a sample of five blazars exhibit hints of periodicity with a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-10-20 P. Peñil , J. R. Westernacher-Schneider , M. Ajello , A. Domínguez , S. Buson , J. Otero-Santos , L. Marcotulli , N. Torres-Albà , J. Zrake

Quasi-periodic fluctuations in the light curves of blazars can provide insight into the underlying emission process. This type of flux modulation hints at periodic physical processes that result in emission. CTA 102, a flat spectrum radio…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-15 Arkadipta Sarkar , Pankaj Kushwaha , Alok C. Gupta , Varsha R. Chitnis , Paul J. Wiita

Detection of periodicity in the broad-band non-thermal emission of blazars has so far been proven to be elusive. However, there are a number of scenarios which could lead to quasi-periodic variations in blazar light curves. For example,…

We present time series analyses of three-decade long radio observations of the BL Lacertae object AO 0235+164 made at the University of Michigan Radio Astronomical Observatory operating at three central frequencies of 4.8 GHz, 8.0 GHz and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-01-26 Ashutosh Tripathi , Alok C. Gupta , Margo F. Aller , Paul J. Wiita , Cosimo Bambi , Hugh Aller , Minfeng Gu

PG 1553+113 is a well-known blazar exhibiting evidence of a $\sim\! 2.2$-yr quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in radio, optical, X-ray, and $\gamma$-ray bands. Since QPO mechanisms often predict multiple QPOs, we search for a second QPO in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-04-17 Sagar Adhikari , Pablo Penil , John Ryan Westernacher-Schneider , Alberto Dominguez , Marco Ajello , Sara Buson , Alba Rico , Jonathan Zrake

Using an unprecedented cadence of 30 minutes provided by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS), we have examined the optical light curves (LCs) of the blazar S5 0716+714 obtained from its Sectors 40, 47, and 53 over a period of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-09 Shubham Kishore , Alok C. Gupta , Paul J. Wiita

We report a possible detection of an ~4.6-hour quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the 0.3-10 keV emission of the high-energy peaked blazar PKS 2155-304 from a 64 ks observation by the XMM-Newton EPIC/pn detector. We identify a total…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-14 P. Lachowicz , A. C. Gupta , H. Gaur , P. J. Wiita

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

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

Blazars are a subclass of radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGNs) that display strong multi-wavelength variability on diverse timescales ranging from years down to minutes. In the last 1.5 decades, there have been occasional detections of…

We searched for quasi-periodicities on year-like timescales in the light curves of 6 blazars in the optical - near infrared bands and we made a comparison with the high energy emission. We obtained optical/NIR light curves from REM…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-02-17 Angela Sandrinelli , Stefano Covino , Massimo Dotti , Aldo Treves

The mechanism for producing gamma-ray quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in blazar is unknown. One possibility is the geometric model, in which without the need for intrinsic quasi-periodic variation, the relativistic Doppler factor changes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2018-11-07 Dahai Yan , Jianeng Zhou , Pengfei Zhang , Qianqian Zhu , Jiancheng Wang

In this work, we report evidence suggesting the potential future detection of a month-scale quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) in the gamma-ray light curve of OP 313. We analysed almost 16.8 years of Fermi-LAT gamma-ray data and applied the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-12-30 Sandeep Kumar Mondal , Shubham Kishore , Alok C. Gupta , Gwenael Giacinti

We report the detection ($>4\sigma$) of a Quasi-Periodic Oscillation (QPO) in the $\gamma$-ray light curve of 3C 454.3 along with a simultaneous marginal QPO detection ($>2.4\sigma$) in the optical light curves. Periodic flux modulations…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-12-23 Arkadipta Sarkar , Alok C. Gupta , Varsha R. Chitnis , Paul J. Wiita