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We address the topic of the Intra-Night Optical Variability of the BL Lac object S5 0716+714. To this purpose a long term observational campaign was performed, from 1996 to 2003, which allowed the collection of a very large data set,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 F. Montagni , A. Maselli , E. Massaro , R. Nesci , S. Sclavi , M. Maesano

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…

We present new clues to the problem of the radio loudness dichotomy arising from an extensive search for intranight optical variability in seven sets of optically luminous radio-quiet quasars and (radio-loud) BL Lacertae objects, which are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Gopal-Krishna , C. S. Stalin , Ram Sagar , Paul J. Wiita

In October 2024, The object BL Lac experienced a brightest flaring event in gamma-ray ($>$100 MeV) with a historical $\gamma$-ray flux of $\sim$10$^{-5}$ erg cm$^{-2}$ s$^{-1}$. Soon after the event was followed across the waveband and in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-04-29 Joysankar Majumdar , Sakshi Maurya , Raj Prince

The polarized and total flux of the BL Lac object PKS 2155-304 were monitored intensively and simultaneously in the optical UBVRI bands with the Turin photopolarimeter at the CASLEO 2.15 m telescope during 4 campaigns in June, August,…

The long-term optical, X-ray and $\gamma$-ray data of blazar 3C 279 have been compiled from $Swift$-XRT, $RXTE$ PCA, $Fermi$-LAT, SMARTS and literature. The source exhibits strong variability on long time scales. Since 1980s to now, the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-11-03 Bing-Kai Zhang , Min Jin , Xiao-Yun Zhao , Li Zhang , Ben-Zhong Dai

We present radio observations at three frequencies and contemporaneous optical monitoring of the peculiar BL Lac object AO 0235+164. During a three-week campaign with the VLA we observed intraday variability in this source and found a…

We here report a monitor of the BL Lac object 1ES 1218+304 in both B- and R-bands by the GWAC-F60A telescope in eight nights, when it was triggerd to be at its highest X-ray flux in history by the VERITAS Observatory and Swift follow-ups.…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-11-03 S. S. Sun , H. L. Li , X. Yang , J. Lü , D. W. Xu , J. Wang

Due to its peculiar and highly variable nature, the blazar 3C 454.3 has been extensively monitored by the WEBT team. Here, we present for the first time these long-term optical flux and color variability results using data acquired in B, V,…

We report the main results of our six year long intensive optical monitoring on blazars ON 231 (W Com), BL Lac, and 3C 273. Intensive optical monitoring is an indispensable tool to obtain well sampled light curves and thus to understand the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-12-13 G. Tosti , S. Ciprini , E. Massaro , M. Maesano , F. Montagni , R. Nesci

We present cross-correlation studies of gamma-ray (0.1-300 GeV), X-ray (0.2-10 keV) and optical (R-band) variability of a sample of 26 blazars during 2008-2016. The light curves are from Fermi-LAT, Swift-XRT, and the Yale-SMARTS blazar…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-04-08 Anwesh Majumder , Kaustav Mitra , Ritaban Chatterjee , C. M. Urry , C. D. Bailyn , Prantik Nandi

We report on I band photometric observations of 21 stars with spectral types between M8 and L4 made using the Isaac Newton Telescope. The total amount of time for observations which had a cadence of <2.3 mins was 58.5 hrs, with additional…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-09-09 Gavin Ramsay , Pasi Hakala , J Gerry Doyle

We present 37 GHz data obtained at Metsahovi Radio Observatory in 2001 December - 2005 April for a large sample of BL Lacertae objects. We also report the mean variability indices and radio spectral indices in frequency intervals 5 - 37 GHz…

We present a long-term and intraday variability study on optical multiwaveband ($U\!BV\!RI$) data from the blazar AO 0235+164 collected by various telescopes for $\sim$44 years (1975--2019). The blazar was found to be significantly variable…

We present a study of the intraday variability behaviour of two samples of x-ray selected BL Lac objects, the EMSS and EXOSAT samples consisting of 22 and 11 sources, respectively. In both samples we were able to detect intraday variability…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Heidt , S. J. Wagner

We have monitored the flat spectrum radio quasar, 3C 279, in the optical $B$, $V$, $R$ and $I$ passbands from 2018 February to 2018 July for 24 nights, with a total of 716 frames, to study flux, colour and spectral variability on diverse…

We report the results of optical monitoring for a sample of 11 blazars including 10 BL Lacs and 1 Flat Spectrum Radio Quasar (FSRQ). We have measured the multiband optical flux and colour variations in these blazars on intra-day and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2013-11-21 Haritma Gaur , Alok C. Gupta , A. Strigachev , R. Bachev , E. Semkov , Paul J. Wiita , S. Peneva , S. Boeva , L. Slavcheva-Mihova , B. Mihov , G. Latev , U. S. Pandey

We report on 15 years of VLA monitoring of the gravitational lens B0957+561 at 6 cm. Since our last report in 1992, there have been 32 additional observations, in which both images have returned to their quiescent flux density levels and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-28 Deborah B. Haarsma , Jacqueline N. Hewitt , Joseph Lehár , Bernard F. Burke

Multicolor (UBVRIJHK) observations of the blazar AO 0235+16 are analyzed. The light curves were compiled at the Turin Observatory from literature data and the results of observations obtained in the framework of the WEBT program…

BL Lacertae is a blazar at the redshift of z = 0.069, eponym of the BL Lac blazar type. It is also a prototype of the low-frequency-peaked BL Lac (LBL) subclass. It was first detected in sub-TeV gamma-ray range by MAGIC in 2005. In 2015,…

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