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We have used the University of Tasmania's 30 m radio telescope at Ceduna in South Australia to regularly monitor the flux density of a number of southern blazars. We report the detection of an annual cycle in the variability timescale of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 Steven J. B. Carter , Simon P. Ellingsen , Jean-Pierre Macquart , James E. J. Lovell

We searched a short-term radio variability in an active galactic nucleus PKS 1510-089. A daily flux monitoring for 143 days at 8.4 GHz was performed, and VLBI observations at 8.4, 22, and 43 GHz were carried out 4 times during the flux…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 Akiko Kadota , Kenta Fujisawa , Satoko Sawada-Satoh , Kiyoaki Wajima , Akihiro Doi

We determine the characteristics of the 7mm to 20cm wavelength radio variability in Sgr A* on time scales from days to three decades. The amplitude of the intensity modulation is between 30 and 39% at all wavelengths. Analysis of uniformly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-Pierre Macquart , Geoff Bower

Sgr A* is variable at radio and submillimeter wavelengths on hourly time scales showing time delays between the peaks of flare emission as well as linearly polarized emission at millimeter and sub-mm wavelengths. To determine the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 F. Yusef-Zadeh , M. Wardle , W. D. Cotton , C. O. Heinke , D. A. Roberts

We present here the discovery of rapid, large amplitude intraday variability in the compact flat-spectrum radio quasar 1156+295. The detection of 40% flux density variations at 15 GHz on a timescale of only 2.7 hours was serendipitously…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-04-14 T. Savolainen , Y. Y. Kovalev

We report here multi-epoch, multi-frequency observations of the circular polarization in Sagittarius A*, the compact radio source in the Galactic Center. Data taken from the VLA archive indicate that the fractional circular polarization at…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Geoffrey C. Bower , Heino Falcke , Robert J. Sault , Donald C. Backer

We observed 51 sources in the Q-U-I JOint TEnerife (QUIJOTE) cosmological fields which were brighter than 1 Jy at 30 GHz in the Planck Point Source Catalogue (version 1), with the Very Large Array at 28 -- 40 GHz, in order to characterise…

Rapid radio intra-day variability (IDV) has been discovered in the southern quasar PKS 1257-326. Flux density changes of up to 40% in as little as 45 minutes have been observed in this source, making it, along with PKS 0405-385 and…

We have conducted the first systematic search for interday variability in a large sample of extragalactic radio sources at 15 GHz. From the sample of 1158 radio-selected blazars monitored over a $\sim$10 year span by the Owens Valley Radio…

Multi-wavelength VLA observations of two extended radio galaxies, 0235-197 and 1203+043 are presented. There is some evidence from earlier studies that these two sources exhibit low frequency (<1 GHz) variability. This work shows that both…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 W. Junor , F. Mantovani , R. Morganti , L. Padrielli

We demostrate that the measurement of fluctuations of polarization due to the galactic interstellar scintillations may be used to study the structure of the radiation field at compact radio sources. We develop a mathematical formalism and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Mikhail V. Medvedev

Intraday variability (IDV) of compact extragalactic radio sources is a complex phenomenon and shows a wavelength dependent mixture of refractive interstellar scintillation (RISS) (dominant at long cm-wavelengths) and source-intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Giuseppe Cimò , L. Fuhrmann , T. P. Krichbaum , T. Beckert , A. Kraus , A. Witzel , J. A. Zensus

Interstellar scintillation (ISS) has been established as the cause of the random variations seen at centimetre wavelengths in many compact radio sources on timescales of a day or less. Observations of ISS can be used to probe structure both…

From 1979--1996 the Green Bank Interferometer was used by the Naval Research Laboratory to monitor the flux density from 146 compact radio sources at frequencies near 2 and 8 GHz. We filter the ``light curves'' to separate intrinsic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 B. Rickett , T. J. W. Lazio , F. D. Ghigo

The University of Tasmania Ceduna radio telescope has been used to investigate rapid variability in the radio flux density of the BL Lac object PKS B1144-379 at 6.7 GHz. High-cadence monitoring of this extreme scintillator was carried out…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2020-09-03 N. M. M. Said , S. P. Ellingsen , H. E. Bignall , S. Shabala , J. N. McCallum , C. Reynolds

Gamma-ray emitting blazars have been the targets of many recent or ongoing monitoring programmes. The resulting multi-wavelength data archives are ideal for studying the quiescent and variable behaviour of the blazar PKS 2155-304. Here,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-15 Nikki Pekeur , Russ Taylor , Renée Kraan-Korteweg

A comprehensive study of multifrequency correlations can shed light on the nature of variation for blazars. In this work, we collect the long-term radio, optical and $\gamma$-ray light curves of PKS 1502+106. After performing the localized…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-01-06 Xi Shao , Yunguo Jiang , Xu Chen

We have studied the implications of high sensitivity polarization measurements of objects from the WMAP point source catalogue made using the VLA at 8.4, 22 and 43 GHz. The fractional polarization of sources is almost independent of…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 R. A. Battye , I. W. A. Browne , M. W. Peel , N. J. Jackson , C. Dickinson

We report results from a 1 week multi-wavelength campaign to monitor the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 (on December 9-16, 2009). In the radio bands the source shows rapid (~ (0.5-1.5) day) intra-day variability with peak amplitudes of up to ~…

We report measurements of time delays of up to 8 minutes in the centimeter wavelength variability patterns of the intra-hour scintillating quasar PKS 1257-326 as observed between the VLA and the ATCA on three separate epochs. These time…

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