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Blazars optical emission is generally dominated by relativistic jets, although the host galaxy, accretion disk and broad line region (BLR) may also contribute significantly. Disentangling their contributions has been challenging for years…

The variation mechanism of blazars is a long standing open question. The polarization observation can provide us with more information to constrain models. In this work, we collect the long term multi-wavelength data of AO 0235+164, and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Yifan Wang , Yunguo Jiang

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

The parsec-scale total intensity structures of BL Lac objects share many characteristics with quasars: e.g. well-collimated jets and superluminal motion. However, the jets of BL Lac objects appear to fade much more quickly than those in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 C. Reynolds , T. V. Cawthorne , D. C. Gabuzda

In this paper I investigate the $\gamma$-ray spectra of AGN by summing up the intensity and the power-law fit statistic of Quasars and OVV's and BL Lac's separately. The spectrum of the average AGN is softer than that of the extragalactic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Martin Pohl

In order to investigate the dependence of quasar optical-UV variability on fundamental physical parameters like black hole mass, we have matched quasars from the QUEST1 variability survey with broad-lined objects from the SDSS. Black hole…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-09-19 M. Wold , M. S. Brotherton , Z. Shang

Spectral differences between lensed quasar image components are common. Since lensing is intrinsically achromatic, these differences are typically explained as the effect of either microlensing, or as light path time delays sampling…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-11 Paul J. Green

A large fraction of the AGNs detected by EGRET exhibit strong variability in many wavebands- from radio to the highest energy gamma-rays observed. The origin of the transient emission in blazars is presumably associated with relativistic…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Amir Levinson

One of the most important problem of the blazar astrophysics is to understand the physical origin of the blazar sequence. In this study, we focus on the GeV gamma-ray variability of blazars and evolution perspective we search the relation…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-02-11 S. Tsujimoto , J. Kushida , K. Nishijima , K. Kodani

Radio variability in quasars has been seen on timescales ranging from days to years due to both intrinsic and propagation induced effects. Although separating the two is not always straight-forward, observations of singular `events' in…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-10-17 H. K. Vedantham

The spectral energy distribution and variability of several blazars (Mkn 501, 1 ES 2344+51.4, PKS 2155-30.4, 1 ES 1218+30.4, 3C 454.3) along the blazar sequence is investigated using a selfconsistent and timedependent lepto-hadronic hybrid…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-09-12 Matthias Weidinger , Felix Spanier

Using a large sample of quasar spectra from the SDSS, we examine the composite spectral trends of quasars as functions of both redshift and luminosity, independently of one another. Aside from the well known Baldwin effect (BE) -- the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 D. E. Vanden Berk , C. -Y. Yip , A. J. Connolly , S. Jester , C. Stoughton

The results of a series of five \sax observations of the TeV BL Lac object 1ES2344+514 are briefly presented. Large amplitude luminosity variability, associated to impressive spectral changes in the hard X-rays, have been found. The shape…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-17 P. Giommi , P. Padovani , E. Perlman

We present long term optical and near infrared flux variability analysis of 37 blazars detected in the $\gamma$-ray band by the {\it Fermi Gamma-Ray Space Telescope}. Among them, 30 are flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) and 7 are BL Lac…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-08-28 P. Z. Safna , C. S. Stalin , Suvendu Rakshit , Blesson Mathew

Blazars, a subset of powerful active galactic nuclei, feature relativistic jets that shine in a broadband electromagnetic radiation, e. g. from radio to TeV emission. Here I present the results of the studies that explore gamma-ray and…

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

There are two possible causes of variability in gravitationally lensed quasars: intrinsic fluctuations of the quasar and ``microlensing'' by compact objects along the line of sight. If disentangled from each other, microlens-induced…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Joachim Wambsganss

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

In this work, the support vector machine (SVM) method is adopted to separate BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) and flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) in the plots of photon spectrum index against the photon flux, $\alpha_{\rm ph} \sim {\rm…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-08-30 Jun-Hui Fan , Ke-Yin Chen , Hu-Bing Xiao , Wen-Xin Yang , Jing-Chao Liang , Guo-Hai Chen , Jiang-He Yang , Yu-Hai Yuan , De-Xiang Wu

Variability is a general property of active galactic nuclei (AGN). At X-rays, the way in which these changes occur is not yet clear. In the particular case of low ionisation nuclear emission line region (LINER) nuclei, variations on…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-09-17 L. Hernández-García , O. González-Martín , J. Masegosa , I. Márquez

This article focuses on certain variability and emission characteristics of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN), especially their radio-loud subset consisting of quasars, BL Lacs and $\gamma$-ray detected narrow-line Seyfert 1 galaxies, all of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2019-06-28 Gopal-Krishna , Silke Britzen , Paul Wiita