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We present the results of extensive multi-band intra-night optical monitoring of BL Lacertae during 2010--2012. BL Lacertae was very active in this period and showed intense variability in almost all wavelengths. We extensively observed it…

We monitored BL Lacertae frequently during 2014 - 2016 when it was generally in a high state. We searched for intra-day variability for 43 nights using quasi-simultaneous measurements in the B, V, R, and I bands (totaling 143 light curves);…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Haritma Gaur , Alok C. Gupta , R. Bachev , A. Strigachev , E. Semkov , Paul J. Wiita , M. F. Gu , S. Ibryamov

We have observed S5 2007+777 and 3C371 in the B and I bands for 13 and 8 nights, respectively, during various observing runs in 2001, 2002 and 2004. The observations resulted in almost evenly sampled light curves, 6-9 hours long. We do not…

We monitored BL Lacertae simultaneously in the optical B, V, R and I bands for 13 nights during the period 2012-2016. The variations were well correlated in all bands and the source showed significant intraday variability (IDV). We also…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-06-23 Nankun Meng , Jianghua Wu , James R. Webb , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Yan Dai

We monitored the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 in the optical band during October 2008, December 2008 and February 2009 with a best temporal resolution of about 5 minutes in the BVRI bands. Four fast flares were observed with amplitudes ranging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 H. Poon , J. H. Fan , J. N. Fu

We have observed S4 0954+658 in the BVRI bands in 2001, and in the BI bands in 2002. The observations resulted in almost evenly sampled light curves, 3-8 hours long, with an average sampling interval of ~5-15 min. Because of the dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. E. Papadakis , V. Samaritakis , P. Boumis , J. Papamastorakis

The aim of our observations is to investigate the intranight variability properties and the spectral variability of BL Lacertae. 799 optical multi-band observations were intensively made with the Beijing-Arizona-Taiwan-Connecticut (BATC)…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-09-11 Shao Ming Hu , J. H. Wu , G. Zhao , X. Zhou

Well-sampled optical and radio light curves of BL Lacertae in B, V, R, I bands and 4.8, 8.0, 14.5 GHz from 1968 to 2014 were presented in this paper. A possible $1.26 \pm 0.05$ yr period in optical bands and a $7.50 \pm 0.15$ yr period in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-19 Y. C. Guo , S. M. Hu , C. Xu , C. Y. Liu , X. Chen , D. F. Guo , F. Y. Meng , M. T. Xu , J. Q. Xu

We present the results from a study of the long-term optical spectral variations of BL Lacertae, using the long and well-sampled B and R-band light curves of the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) collaboration, binned on time intervals of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-19 I. E. Papadakis , M. Villata , C. M. Raiteri

We monitored BL Lacertae for 13 nights in optical B, V, R, and I bands during October and November 2014 including quasi-simultaneous observations in V and R bands using two optical telescopes in India. We have studied multi-band optical…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-02 Aditi Agarwal , Alok C. Gupta

We observed the prototype blazar, BL Lacertae, extensively in optical and radio bands during an active phase in the period 2010--2013 when the source showed several prominent outbursts. We searched for possible correlations and time lags…

We report results of multiband optical monitoring of two well known blazars, S5 0716+714 and BL Lacertae, carried out in 1996 and 2000-01 with an aim to study optical variations on time scales from minutes to hours and longer.The light…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. S. Stalin , Gopal-Krishna , Ram Sagar , Paul J. Wiita , V. Mohan , A. K. Pandey

We have monitored the BL Lacertae object S5 0716+714 simultaneously in the B, R and I bands on three nights in November 2014. The average time resolution is quite high (73s, 34s, 58s for the filters B, R and I), which can help us trace the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-01-27 Zhongyi Man , Xiaoyuan Zhang , Jianghua Wu , Qirong Yuan

We monitored BL Lacertae in the B, V, R and I bands for 14 nights during the period of 2016-2018. The source showed significant intraday variability on 12 nights. We performed colour-magnitude analysis and found that the source exhibited…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Tian Li , Jianghua Wu , Nankun Meng , Yan Dai , Xiaoyuan Zhang

In 2021 BL Lacertae underwent an extraordinary activity phase, which was intensively followed by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) Collaboration. We present the WEBT optical data in the BVRI bands acquired at 36 observatories around…

We have monitored the BL Lacertae object S5 0716+714 in the optical bands during 2012 January and February with long time spans on intraday timescales ($>$5 hr) and high time resolutions. During this monitoring period, the object shows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Shanwei Hong , Dingrong Xiong , Jinming Bai

We present the results of our optical monitoring of the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 on seven nights in 2006 December. The monitoring was carried out simultaneously at three optical wavelengths with a novel photometric system. The object did…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jianghua Wu , Markus Boettcher , Xu Zhou , Xiangtao He , Jun Ma , Zhaoji Jiang

We present the optical (V, R, and I) photometry for BL Lacertae, which was observed from 1997 through 1999, with the 1.56-m telescope at the Shanghai astronomical observatory (SHAO). After the 1997 outburst, it dimmed to a low state and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-08-30 J. H. Fan , B. C. Qian , J. Tao

We perform quasi-simultaneous optical multi-band monitoring of BL Lac object S5 0716+714 on seven nights from 2013 to 2016. Intra-day variability (IDV) is found on all seven nights. The source was faintest on JD 2456322 with 14.15 mags and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-22 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Jianghua Wu , Nankun Meng

BL Lac has entered an active state since 2020, with multiwavelength observations revealing intense flares. In this study, we conducted 12-night multicolor optical monitoring using an 85 cm telescope from 2020 September to 2024 June and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-05 Hanxiao Xia , Ziming Wang , Jianghua Wu , Yue Fang , Shiyu Du
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