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We present H-band imaging of 23 low redshift (z < 0.3) BL Lac objects that were previously investigated by us in the R-band. For all the observed objects, the host galaxy is well represented by an elliptical model, with average scale length…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. K. Kotilainen , R. Falomo

We consider evolution properties of galaxies and quasars with steep radio spectrum at the decametre band from the UTR-2 catalogue. The ratios of source's monochromatic luminosities at the decametre and high-frequency bands display the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-10-19 Alla Miroshnichenko

Due to the first results on astrophysical X-ray polarization provided by \textit{IXPE} observatory, the interest in wavelength-dependent synchrotron polarization of BL Lac type objects increases. This paper presents the results of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-16 Elena Shablovinskaya , Eugene Malygin , Dmitry Oparin

We collect the 2LAC and MOJAVE quasi-simultaneous data to investigate the radio-gamma connection of blazars. The cross sample contains 166 sources. The statistic analysis based on this sample confirms positive correlations between these two…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-03 Fan Xu-Liang , Bai Jin-Ming , Liu Hong-Tao , Chen Liang , Liao Neng-Hui

By cross-correlating an archival sample of 170 BL Lacs with 2 year \fermilat AGN sample, we have compiled a sample of 100 BL Lacs with \fermi detection (FBLs), and a sample of 70 non-\fermi BL Lacs (NFBLs). We compared various parameters of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-18 Zhongzu Wu , D. R. Jiang , Minfeng Gu , Liang Chen

We present a large sample of 501 radio-selected BL Lac candidates from the combination of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Data Release 5 optical spectroscopy and from the Faint Images of the Radio Sky at Twenty-Centimeters (FIRST) radio…

BL Lac objects are low--power active nuclei exhibiting a variety of peculiar properties that are caused by the presence of a relativistic jet and orientation effects. We present here adaptive optics near-IR images at high spatial resolution…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 R. Falomo , E. Pian , A. Treves , G. Giovannini , T. Venturi , A. Moretti , C. Arcidiacono , J. Farinato , R. Ragazzoni , E. Diolaiti , M. Lombini , F. Tavecchio , R. Brast , E. Marchetti , S. Tordo

Context. The study of BL Lac objects (BLL) detected in gamma-rays gives insights on the acceleration mechanisms in play in such systems and is also a valuable tool to constrain the density of the extragalactic background light. As their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-05-08 Santiago Pita , Paolo Goldoni , Catherine Boisson , Jean-Philippe Lenain , Michael Punch , Lucie Gérard , François Hammer , Lex Kaper , Hélène Sol

By cross-correlating large samples of galaxy clusters with publicly available radio source catalogs, we construct the volume-averaged radio luminosity function (RLF) in clusters of galaxies, and investigate its dependence on cluster…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-27 M. W. Sommer , K. Basu , F. Pacaud , F. Bertoldi , H. Andernach

We study evolution of cosmological models filled with the scalar field and barotropic matter. We consider the scalar field minimally and non-minimally coupled to gravity. We demonstrated the growth of degree of complexity of evolutional…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2012-12-20 Orest Hrycyna , Marek Szydlowski

We present simultaneous multifrequency radio observations for a complete subsample of 26 XBLs from the Einstein Extended Medium-Sensitivity Survey, obtained with the Very Large Array (VLA). Spectra are computed using fluxes at 20, 6 and 3.6…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Francesca Cavallotti , Anna Wolter , John T. Stocke , Travis Rector

Among active galactic nuclei, blazars show extreme variability properties. We here investigate the case of the BL Lac object S4 0954+65 with data acquired in 2019-2020 by the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS) and by the Whole…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-05-12 C. M. Raiteri , M. Villata , V. M. Larionov , S. G. Jorstad , A. P. Marscher , Z. R. Weaver

We consider the cosmological evolution of a bulk scalar field and ordinary matter living on the brane world in the light of the constraints imposed by the matter dominated cosmological evolution and a small cosmological constant now. We…

High Energy Physics - Theory · Physics 2016-09-06 Ph. Brax , A. C. Davis

In this presentation, we report the results of intraday variability in the optical (BVRI bands) and hard X-ray band (3-79 keV) in a number of blazars. In the optical microvariability studies of the blazars S5 0716+714 and BL Lac, we…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-10-18 Gopal Bhatta

Blazars are astrophysical sources whose emission is dominated by non-thermal processes, typically interpreted as synchrotron and inverse Compton emission. Although the general picture is rather robust and consistent with observations, many…

We report on new radio measurements of Galactic planetary nebulae, aimed at resolving the controversies on the reliability of older VLA flux densities and the suggested deviations from the standard Galactic extinction law found for…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Stuart Pottasch , Albert Zijlstra

We propose a unified classification for BL Lac objects (BLs), focusing on the synchrotron peak frequency of the spectral energy distribution. The unification scheme is based on the angle Theta that describes the orientation of the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 Markos Georganopoulos , Alan P. Marscher

Light curves of eight BL Lac objects in the BVRI bands have been analyzed. All of the objects tend to be bluer when brighter. However spectral slope changes differ quantitatively from those of a sample of QSOs analyzed in a previous paper…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Fausto Vagnetti , Dario Trevese , Roberto Nesci

Internal shocks propagating through an ambient radiation field, are subject to a radiative drag that, under certain conditions, can significantly affect their dynamics and, consequently, the evolution of the beaming cone of emission…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Avigdor Eldar , Amir Levinson

We report on the optical properties of a sample of 30 BL Lac host galaxies in the redshift range $0.03<z<0.2$, as derived from HST observations. All galaxies are fully resolved in the WFPC2 (F702W filter) images, allowing a quantitative…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 R. Falomo , R. Scarpa , A. Treves , C. M. Urry