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We describe and present initial results from a Fermi cycle 2 program designed to monitor the behavior of the centimeter-band linear polarization and total flux density emitted by gamma-ray-bright blazars during flaring. The goal of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2009-12-17 M. F. Aller , H. D. Aller , P. A. Hughes

The recent release of the First Fermi-LAT Source Catalog solidified the predominant association of extragalactic gamma-ray emitters to active galaxies, in particular blazars. A tight connection between AGN jet kinematics and gamma-ray…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2011-03-25 Marios Karouzos , Silke Britzen , Arno Witzel , Anton Zensus , Andreas Eckart

We present an in-depth and systematic variability study of a sample of 20 powerful blazars, including 12 BL Lacs and 8 flat spectrum radio quasars, applying various analysis tools such as flux distribution, symmetry analysis, and time…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-18 Gopal Bhatta , Niraj Dhital

Recent detection of suborbital gamma-ray variability of Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ) 3C 279 by Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) is in severe conflict with established models of blazar emission. This paper presents the results of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-15 Krzysztof Nalewajko

Tensions between the diffuse gamma-ray sky observed by the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) and the diffuse high-energy neutrino sky detected by the IceCube South Pole Neutrino Observatory question our knowledge about high-energy neutrino…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-11-01 Emma Kun , Imre Bartos , Julia Becker Tjus , Peter L. Biermann , Anna Franckowiak , Francis Halzen , György Mező

Context. Blazars are among the most energetic objects in the Universe. In 2008 August, Fermi/LAT detected the blazar PKS 1502+106 showing a rapid and strong gamma-ray outburst followed by high and variable flux over the next months. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-27 V. Karamanavis , L. Fuhrmann , T. P. Krichbaum , E. Angelakis , J. Hodgson , I. Nestoras , I. Myserlis , J. A. Zensus , A. Sievers , S. Ciprini

We present Fermi-LAT and multi-frequency, multi-epoch VLBA data for the TeV blazar Mrk421. We collected the data during a long and intensive multi-frequency campaign in 2011. We study the gamma-ray light curve, the photon index evolution…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Giroletti , F. D'Ammando , M. Orienti , D. Paneque , R. Lico , G. Giovannini , J. L. Gómez , S. Jorstad , A. Marscher

The Large Area Telescope (LAT) aboard the $Fermi$ spacecraft routinely observes high-energy emission from gamma-ray bursts (GRBs). Here we present the second catalog of LAT-detected GRBs, covering the first 10 years of operations, from 2008…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-06-28 M. Axelsson , E. Bissaldi , N. Omodei , G. Vianello

We present 1625 new 15 GHz (2 cm) VLBA images of 295 jets associated with active galactic nuclei (AGNs) from the MOJAVE and 2 cm VLBA surveys, spanning observations between 1994 Aug 31 and 2013 Aug 20. For 274 AGNs with at least 5 VLBA…

The gamma-ray emission offers a powerful diagnostic tool to probe jets and their surroundings in flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ). In particular, sources emitting at high energies (>10 GeV) give us the strongest constraints. This…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 L. Pacciani , F. Tavecchio , I. Donnarumma , A. Stamerra , L. Carrasco , E. Recillas , A. Porras , M. Uemura

Context. Blazars are a subset of active galactic nuclei (AGN) with jets that are oriented along our line of sight. Variability and spectral energy distribution (SED) studies are crucial tools for understanding the physical processes…

The production site and process responsible for the highly variable high-energy emission observed from blazar jets are still debated. Gravitational lenses can be used as microscopes to investigate the nature of such sources. We study the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-09 Sarah M. Wagner , Jeffrey D. Scargle , Greg Madejski , Andrea Gokus , Krzysztof Nalewajko , Patrick Günther , Karl Mannheim

About twenty years of radio observations in five bands (from 4.8 to 37 GHz) of the BL Lac object GC 0109+224 (S2 0109+22, RGB J0112+227), are presented and analysed together with the optical data. Over the past ten years this blazar has…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-16 Stefano Ciprini , Gino Tosti , Harri Teräsranta , Hugh D. Aller

(Abridged) We present a detailed analysis of week-long simultaneous observations of the blazar Mrk421 at 2-60 keV X-rays (RXTE) and TeV gamma-rays (Whipple and HEGRA) in 2001. The unprecedented quality of this dataset enables us to…

We present the results of our study of cross-correlations between long-term multi-band observations of the radio variability of the blazar 3C 279. More than a decade (2008-2022) of radio data were collected at seven different frequencies…

The synergy between the Fermi-LAT and ground-based Cherenkov telescope arrays gives us the opportunity for the first time to characterize the high-energy emission from blazars over 5 decades in energy, from 100 MeV to 10 TeV. In this study,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 G. D. Senturk , M. Errando , M. Boettcher , R. Mukherjee

Blazars are among the most variable objects in the universe. They feature energetic jets of plasma that launch from the cores of these active galactic nuclei (AGN), triggering activity from radio up to gamma-ray energies. Spatial…

Blazars present highly variable $\gamma$-ray emission. This variability, which can range from a few minutes to several years, is also observed at other wavelengths across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. We make use of the first 12…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-03-05 P. Peñil , J. Otero-Santos , M. Ajello , S. Buson , A. Domínguez , L. Marcotulli , N. Torres-Albà , J. Becerra González , J. A. Acosta-Pulido

The bright gamma-ray blazar S5 1044+71 has been identified as showing very significant quasi-periodic oscillations in the Fermi-LAT data in recent studies, with a periodicity of about 3 years. With the completion of a new gamma-ray cycle,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-27 M. Cerruti , P. A. Duverne , G. Ganesaratnam , P. Goswami , H. X. Ren , N. Sahakyan

In the framework of the TANAMI multi-wavelength and VLBI monitoring, we study the evolution of the parsec-scale radio emission in radio galaxies in the southern hemisphere and their relationship to the $\gamma$-ray properties. In this first…