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We present a detailed statistical analysis of the correlation between radio and gamma-ray emission of the Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) detected by Fermi during its first year of operation, with the largest datasets ever used for this…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Ackermann , M. Ajello , A. Allafort , E. Angelakis , M. Axelsson , L. Baldini , J. Ballet , G. Barbiellini , D. Bastieri , R. Bellazzini , B. Berenji , R. D. Blandford , E. D. Bloom , E. Bonamente , A. W. Borgland , A. Bouvier , J. Bregeon , A. Brez , M. Brigida , P. Bruel , R. Buehler , S. Buson , G. A. Caliandro , R. A. Cameron , A. Cannon , P. A. Caraveo , J. M. Casandjian , E. Cavazzuti , C. Cecchi , E. Charles , A. Chekhtman , C. C. Cheung , S. Ciprini , R. Claus , J. Cohen-Tanugi , S. Cutini , F. de Palma , C. D. Dermer , E. do Couto e Silva , P. S. Drell , R. Dubois , D. Dumora , L. Escande , C. Favuzzi , S. J. Fegan , W. B. Focke , P. Fortin , M. Frailis , L. Fuhrmann , Y. Fukazawa , P. Fusco , F. Gargano , D. Gasparrini , N. Gehrels , N. Giglietto , P. Giommi , F. Giordano , M. Giroletti , T. Glanzman , G. Godfrey , P. Grandi , I. A. Grenier , S. Guiriec , D. Hadasch , M. Hayashida , E. Hays , S. E. Healey , G. J , A. S. Johnson , T. Kamae , H. Katagiri , J. Kataoka , J. Kn , M. Kuss , J. Lande , S. -H. Lee , F. Longo , F. Loparco , B. Lott , M. N. Lovellette , P. Lubrano , A. Makeev , W. Max-Moerbeck , M. N. Mazziotta , J. E. McEnery , J. Mehault , P. F. Michelson , T. Mizuno , C. Monte , M. E. Monzani , A. Morselli , I. V. Moskalenko , S. Murgia , M. Naumann-Godo , S. Nishino , P. L. Nolan , J. P. Norris , E. Nuss , T. Ohsugi , A. Okumura , N. Omodei , E. Orlando , J. F. Ormes , M. Ozaki , D. Paneque , V. Pavlidou , V. Pelassa , M. Pepe , M. Pesce-Rollins , M. Pierbattista , F. Piron , T. A. Porter , S. Rain , M. Razzano , A. Readhead , A. Reimer , O. Reimer , J. L. Richards , R. W. Romani , H. F. -W. Sadrozinski , J. D. Scargle , C. Sgr , E. J. Siskind , P. D. Smith , G. Spandre , P. Spinelli , M. S. Strickman , D. J. Suson , H. Takahashi , T. Tanaka , G. B. Taylor , J. G. Thayer , J. B. Thayer , D. J. Thompson , D. F. Torres , G. Tosti , A. Tramacere , E. Troja , J. Vandenbroucke , G. Vianello , V. Vitale , A. P. Waite , P. Wang , B. L. Winer , K. S. Wood , Z. Yang , M. Ziegler

We examine the continuum variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) by analyzing the multi-epoch spectroscopic data from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey. To achieve this, we utilized approximately 2 million spectroscopy pairwise combinations…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2025-11-13 Minjin Kim , Suyeon Son , Luis C. Ho

Detection of Gamma-ray emission from a class of active galactic nuclei (viz blazars), has been one of the important findings from the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (CGRO). However, their Gamma-ray luminosity function has not been well…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-12-17 D. Bhattacharya , P. Sreekumar , R. Mukherjee

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most luminous objects in the Universe, emitting radiation from low-energy radio waves to high energy $\gamma$-rays. They are well known to exhibit flux variations at nearly all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-19 M. Reshma , C. S. Stalin , Amit Kumar Mandal , S. B. Gudennavar , Senorita Benedict , Prajwel Joseph

We study the optical variability characteristics of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) from the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) AGN catalogue by utilising approximately five years of optical light curves from the Zwicky Transient Facility (ZTF)…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-08-12 Vivek Kumar Jha , Debbijoy Bhattacharya , Hum Chand

We review the high energy properties of Misaligned AGNs associated with gamma-ray sources detected by Fermi in 24 months of survey. Most of them are nearby emission low power radio galaxies (i.e FRIs) which probably have structured jets. On…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 Paola Grandi

Gamma-ray bursts (GRBs) and GeV-TeV selected radio loud Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are compared based on our systematic modeling of the observed spectral energy distributions of a sample of AGNs with a single-zone leptonic model. We show…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-16 Jin Zhang , En-Wei Liang , Xiao-Na Sun , Bing Zhang , Ye Lu , Shuang-Nan Zhang

The variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is ubiquitous but has not yet been understood. Measuring the optical variation properties of AGNs, such as variation timescale and amplitude, and then correlating them with their fundamental…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2024-01-11 Xu-Fan Hu , Zhen-Yi Cai , Jun-Xian Wang

In a previous paper, we studied two statistical methods used to analyse the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs): the C and F statistics. Applying them to observed differential light-curves of 39 AGNs, we found that, even though the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-02 L. Zibecchi , I. Andruchow , S. A. Cellone , D. D. Carpintero

Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) exhibit variability across a wide range of time scales. Traditionally, this variability can often be modeled well as a stochastic process. However, in certain cases, jetted AGN variability displays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 P. Penil , A. Domínguez , S. Buson , M. Ajello , S. Adhikari , A. Rico

We present results of recurrence analysis of 46 active galactic nuclei (AGN) using light curves from the 157-month catalog of the Swift Burst Alert Telescope (BAT) in the 14-150 keV band. We generate recurrence plots and compute recurrence…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-11-28 R. A. Phillipson , M. S. Vogeley , P. T. Boyd

Fermi has provided the largest sample of {\gamma}-ray selected blazars to date. In this work we use a complete sample of FSRQs detected during the first year of operation to determine the luminosity function (LF) and its evolution with…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-30 M. Ajello , M. S. Shaw , R. W. Romani , C. D. Dermer , L. Costamante , O. G. King , W. Max-Moerbeck , A. Readhead , A. Reimer , J. L. Richards , M. Stevenson

Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) are characterized by strong temporal flux density variability across the electromagnetic spectrum, offering insights into the complex physical processes governing accretion and plasma outflows. To…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-02-25 Lang Cui , Krishna Mohana A , Xin Wang , Ning Chang , Guiping Tan , Xiang Liu

Context. The advent of Fermi is changing our understanding on the radio and gamma-ray emission in Active Galactic Nuclei. Contrary to pre-Fermi ideas, BL Lac objects are found to be the most abundant emitters in the gamma-ray band. However,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-17 E. Liuzzo , M. Giroletti , G. Giovannini , B. Boccardi , S. Tamburri , G. B. Taylor , C. Casadio , M. Kadler , G. Tosti , A. Mignano

The normalized excess variance is a popular method used by many authors to estimate the variability of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), especially in the X-ray band. We show that this estimator is affected by the cosmological time dilation,…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-23 Riccardo Middei , Fausto Vagnetti , Marco Antonucci , Roberto Serafinelli

The F-GAMMA program is among the most comprehensive programs that aim at understanding the physics in active galactic nuclei through the multi-frequency monitoring of Fermi blazars. Here we discuss monthly sampled broad-band radio spectra…

Context. Variability is a ubiquitous feature of active galactic nuclei (AGNs), and the characterisation of the variability is crucial to constrain its physical mechanism and proper applications in AGN studies. The advent of all-sky and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-04 Heechan Yuk , Xinyu Dai

The gamma-ray energy spectra of bright blazars of the LAT Bright AGN Sample (LBAS) are investigated using Fermi-LAT data. Spectral properties (hardness, curvature and variability) established using a data set accumulated over 6 months of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-18 LAT Collaboration

{We focus on characterizing the high-energy emission mechanisms of blazars by analyzing the variability in the radio band of the light curves of more than a thousand sources. We are interested in assigning complexity parameters to these…

Data Analysis, Statistics and Probability · Physics 2022-05-11 Belén Acosta-Tripailao , Walter Max-Moerbeck , Denisse Pastén , Pablo S. Moya

We investigate the use of optical photometric variability to select and identify blazars in large-scale time-domain surveys, in part to aid in the identification of blazar counterparts to the ~30% of gamma-ray sources in the Fermi 2FGL…