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The FSRQ 4C+01.28 is a bright and highly variable radio and $\gamma$-ray emitter. We aim to pinpoint the location of the $\gamma$-ray emitting region within its jet in order to derive strong constraints on $\gamma$-ray emission models for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-01-14 F. Rösch , M. Kadler , E. Ros , L. Ricci , M. A. Gurwell , T. Hovatta , N. R. MacDonald , A. C. S. Readhead

Previous spectral energy distribution modeling based on XMM-Newton X-ray observation of the classical double-lobed radio galaxy 3C 411 left the possibility open for the presence of a blazar-like core. We investigated this scenario by…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-03-13 Krisztina Perger , Sándor Frey , Krisztina Éva Gabányi

Multi-epoch GHz Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) data of the radio-loud quasar J1101+7225 were analyzed to estimate the proper motion of extended optically thin jet components. Two components separated from the core could be mapped…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 J. -U. Pott , A. Eckart , M. Krips , T. P. Krichbaum , S. Britzen , W. Alef , J. A. Zensus

Densely time sampled multi-frequency flux measurements of the extreme BL Lac object S5 0716+714 over the past three years allow us to study its broad-band variability, and the detailed underlying physics, with emphasis on the location and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2019-08-16 B. Rani , T. P. Krichbaum , L. Fuhrmann , B. Lott , M. Boettcher , J. A. Zensus

Context. Important information on the evolution of the jet can be obtained by comparing the physical state of the plasma at its propagation through the broad-line region (where the jet is most likely formed) into the intergalactic medium,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-06 D. Zargaryan , S. Gasparyan , V. Baghmanyan , N. Sahakyan

The optical polarization plane of some blazars occasionally exhibits smooth hundred degree long rotations. Multiple theoretical models have been proposed to explain the nature of such events. A deterministic origin of these rotations,…

A recent progress in the study of $\gamma$-ray jets is reviewed, with a focus on some theoretical interpretations of the VHE emission from M87, and possibly other misaligned blazars; the connection betwe en the GeV breaks exhibited by…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 Amir Levinson

The jet in 3C273 is a high-power quasar jet with radio, optical and X-ray emission whose size and brightness allow a detailed study of the emission processes acting in it. We present deep Chandra observations of this jet and analyse the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 S. Jester , D. E. Harris , H. L. Marshall , K. Meisenheimer

A multiwavelength temporal and spectral analysis of flares of 3C 279 during November 2017--July 2018 are presented in this work. Three bright gamma-ray flares were observed simultaneously in X-ray and Optical/UV along with a prolonged…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-03-04 Raj Prince

We present observations of the blazar 3C 279 at 22 GHz using the space VLBI mission RadioAstron on 2018 January 15. Images in both total intensity and fractional polarization are reconstructed using RML method implemented in the eht-imaging…

Bright and fast gamma-ray flares with hard spectra have been recently detected from the blazar 3C 279, with apparent GeV luminosities up to $10^{49}$ erg/s. The source is observed to flicker on timescales of minutes with no comparable…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-26 V. Vittorini , M. Tavani , A. Cavaliere

We present the light curves and spectral data of two exceptionally luminous gamma-ray outburts observed by the Large Area Telescope (LAT) experiment on board Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope from 3C 273 in September 2009. During these…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-05-20 A. A. Abdo et al.

We report on the VLBI follow-up observations using the Japanese VLBI Network (JVN) array at 22 GHz for the largest X-ray flare of TeV blazar Mrk 421 that occurred in mid-February, 2010. The total of five epochs of observations were…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-11 K. Niinuma , M. Kino , H. Nagai , N. Isobe , K. E. Gabanyi , K. Hada , S. Koyama , K. Asada , T. Oyama , K. Fujisawa

Multiwavelength monitoring of the blazar 3C 279 observed a very bright, 12-hour, orphan gamma-ray flare on 20 Dec 2013 with a uniquely hard Fermi-LAT spectrum and high Compton dominance. We work with a one-zone, leptonic model with both…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-12-24 Tiffany R. Lewis , Justin D. Finke , Peter A. Becker

High-resolution millimeter wave very-long-baseline interferometry (mm-VLBI) is an ideal tool for probing the structure at the base of extragalactic jets in detail. The TeV blazar Mrk 501 is one of the best targets among BL Lac objects for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2016-01-12 S. Koyama , M. Kino , M. Giroletti , A. Doi , G. Giovannini , M. Orienti , K. Hada , E. Ros , K. Niinuma , H. Nagai , T. Savolainen , T. P. Krichbaum , M. Á. Pérez-Torres

Very Long Baseline Interferometry (VLBI) allows for high-resolution and high-sensitivity observations of relativistic jets, that can reveal periodicities of several years in their structure. We perform an analysis of long-term VLBI data of…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-05 E. Kun , K. É. Gabányi , M. Karouzos , S. Britzen , L. Á. Gergely

We present multiwavelength light curves and polarimetric data of the Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar 3C 273 over 8 years. The wavelength range of our data set extends from radio to gamma-rays. We found that the optical emission in this source is…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-07-22 Sunil Fernandes , Víctor M. Patiño-Álvarez , Vahram Chavushyan , Eric M. Schlegel , José Ramón Valdés

Long term radio monitoring of the broad absorption line quasar, Mrk\,231, at 17.6~GHz detected a strong flare in 2015. This triggered four epochs of Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA) observations from 8.4 GHz to 43 GHz as well as three epochs…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-02-22 Cormac Reynolds , Brian Punsly , Giovanni Miniutti , Christopher P. O'Dea , Natasha Hurley-Walker

We report on the first high frequency VLBI observations of the nearby broad absorption line quasar (BALQSO), Mrk 231. Three epochs of observations were achieved at 15 GHz and 22 GHz, two of these included 43 GHz observations as well. The…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2014-11-20 Cormac Reynolds , Brian Punsly , Preeti Kharb , Christopher P. O'Dea , Joan Wrobel