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In this work, we report the presence of rapid intra-night optical variations in both -- flux and polarization of the blazar BL Lacertae during its unprecedented 2020--2021 high state of brightness. The object showed significant flux…

The active galactic nucleus 4C +28.07 is a flat spectrum radio quasar, one of the brightest at $\gamma$-ray energies. We study its multi-wavelength emission by analysing $\sim12.3$ years of \textit{Fermi-LAT} data in the $\gamma$-ray band…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-01-10 Davit Zargaryan , Jonathan Mackey , Thibault Barnouin , Felix Aharonian

A majority of blazars exhibit variable emission across the entire electromagnetic spectrum, observed over various time scales. In particular, discernible periodic patterns are detected in the $\gamma$-ray light curves of a few blazars, such…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-06-18 Alba Rico , A. Domínguez , P. Peñil , M. Ajello , S. Buson , S. Adhikari , M. Movahedifar

Increase in the Balmer continuum radiation during solar flares was predicted by various authors but never firmly confirmed observationally using ground-based slit spectrographs. Here we describe a new post-focal instrument - Image Selector…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2016-02-02 P. Kotrč , O. Procházka , P. Heinzel

We have carried out a search for flares from the analysis of light curves for 12 active G, K, and M dwarfs. As sources of data we used ground-based observations in 2000-2020 from the photometric databases ASAS, SuperWASP, KWS. Events of…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-07-20 N. I. Bondar' , M. M. Katsova , A. A. Shlyapnikov

We compare the gamma-ray photon flux variability of northern blazars in the Fermi/LAT First Source Catalog with 37 GHz radio flux density curves from the Metsahovi quasar monitoring program. We find that the relationship between…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-10-25 J. Leon-Tavares , E. Valtaoja , M. Tornikoski , A. Lahteenmaki , E. Nieppola

In this paper, we study stellar light curves from the TESS satellite (Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite) for the presence of stellar flares. The main aim is to detect stellar flares using two-minutes cadence data and to perform…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2022-08-31 Małgorzata Pietras , Robert Falewicz , Marek Siarkowski , Kamil Bicz , Paweł Preś

Blazars are the most active extragalactic gamma-ray sources. They show sporadic bursts of activity, lasting from hours to months. In this work we present a 10-year analysis of a sample of bright sources detected by Fermi-LAT (100 MeV - 300…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2021-09-29 J. R. Sacahui , A. V. Penacchioni , A. Marinelli , A. Sharma , M. Castro , J. M. Osorio , M. A. Morales

Blazars are a small fraction of all extragalactic sources but, unlike other objects, they are strong emitters across the entire electromagnetic spectrum. Recent data in the microwave region of the electromagnetic spectrum have become…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2013-12-24 D. Gasparrini , E. Cavazzuti , P. Giommi , C. Pittori , S. Colafrancesco , Fermi-LAT collaboration

Taking into account results obtained from models and from statistical analyses of obtained parameters, we discuss flare activity levels and flare characteristics of five UV Ceti stars. We present the parameters of unpublished flares…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-27 H. A. Dal , S. Evren

In this study, we present the unpublished flare data collected from 222 flares detected in the B band observations of five stars and the results derived by statistical analysis and modeling of these data. Six basic properties have been…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2012-06-19 H. A. Dal , S. Evren

The flat-spectrum radio quasar 3C 454.3 underwent an extraordinary 5-day gamma-ray outburst in November 2010 where the daily flux measured with the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) at photon energies E>100 MeV reached (66+/-2) x 10^-6 ph…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-02-22 LAT collaboration

The EGRET instrument on the Compton Gamma Ray Observatory (1991-2000) has positively detected high energy gamma-ray emission from more than 67 active galaxies of the blazar class. The majority of the EGRET blazars are flat-spectrum radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-06 R. Mukherjee

High-$z$ blazars (z $\geq 2.5$) are the most powerful class of persistent $\gamma$-ray sources in the Universe. These objects possess the highest jet powers and luminosities and have black hole masses often in excess of $10^9$ solar masses.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-11-18 M. Kreter , A. Gokus , F. Krauß , M. Kadler , R. Ojha , S. Buson , J. Wilms , M. Böttcher

The Gamma-ray Large Area Space Telescope (GLAST) is an observatory designed to perform gamma-ray astronomy in the energy range 20 MeV to 300 GeV, with supporting measurements for gamma-ray bursts from 10 keV to 25 MeV. GLAST will be…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 D. Paneque , A. Borgland , A. Bovier , E. Bloom , Y. Edmonds , S. Funk , G. Godfrey , R. Rando , L. Wai , P. Wang

The light curves of solar flares in the impulsive phase are complex in general, indicating that multiple physical processes are involved in. With the GOES (Geostationary Operational Environmental Satellite) observations, we find that there…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-16 HAN , Fei-ran , LIU , Si-ming

We utilize the Sagittarius Window Eclipsing Extrasolar Planet Search (SWEEPS) HST/ACS dataset for a Deep Rapid Archival Flare Transient Search (DRAFTS) to constrain the flare rate toward the older stellar population in the Galactic bulge.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-05 Rachel A. Osten , Adam Kowalski , Kailash Sahu , Suzanne Hawley

GLAST, a detector for cosmic gamma rays in the range from 20 MeV to 300 GeV, will be launched in space in 2005. Breakthroughs are expected in particular in the study of particle acceleration mechanisms in space and of gamma ray bursts, and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2016-11-03 Alessandro de Angelis

Blazars are a subclass of active galactic nuclei (AGNs) with extreme observation properties, which is caused by the beaming effect, expressed by a Doppler factor, in a relativistic jet. Doppler factor is an important parameter in the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-10-21 Zhiyuan Pei , Junhui Fan , Jianghe Yang , Denis Bastieri

The present status of the blazar spectral sequence is discussed, including new findings about blazars selected with different criteria than the original complete radio-samples. Despite extensive searches of blazars "breaking" the sequence,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-06-23 L. Maraschi , G. Ghisellini , F. Tavecchio , L. Foschini , R. M. Sambruna