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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

T Corona Borealis (T CrB) is a recurrent nova and a symbiotic star that is commonly highlighted as the best case for being a progenitor of a Type Ia supernova (SNIa) within the framework of single-degenerate models. This exemplar can be…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-10-03 Bradley E. Schaefer

We present optical and ultraviolet observations of 3C273 covering the whole life of the IUE satellite. We analyze the variability properties of the light curves, and find that two variable components, written B and R respectively, must…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 S. Paltani , T. J-L. Courvoisier , R. Walter

We report the first study of Fourier-frequency-dependent coherence and phase/time lags at optical wavelengths of cataclysmic variables (MV Lyr and LU Cam) displaying typical flickering variability in white light. Observations were performed…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-06-15 S. Scaringi , E. Koerding , P. J. Groot , P. Uttley , T. Marsh , C. Knigge , T. Maccarone , V. S. Dhillon

R Coronae Borealis variable stars are suspected to sporadically eject optically thick dust clouds causing, when one of them lies on the line-of-sight, a huge brightness decline in visible light. Mid-infrared interferometric observations of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 I. C. Leao , Patrick De Laverny , O. Chesneau , D. Mekarnia , J. R. De Medeiros

CH Cygni began producing rapid, stochastic optical variations with the onset of symbiotic activity in 1963. We use changes in this flickering between 1997 and 2000 to diagnose the state of the accretion disk during this time. In the 1998…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 J. L. Sokoloski , S. J. Kenyon

We analyze a composite broad-band optical/UV/Xgamma-ray spectrum of the Seyfert 1 galaxy NGC 5548. The spectrum consists of an average of simultaneous optical/IUE/Ginga observations accompanied by ROSAT and GRO/OSSE data from…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 P. Magdziarz , O. M. Blaes , A. A. Zdziarski , W. N. Johnson , D. A. Smith

The famous recurrent nova (RN) T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) has had observed eruptions peaking at a visual magnitude of 2.0 in the years 1866 and 1946, while a third eruption is now expected for the year 2024.4+-0.3. Each RN has very similar…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-05 Bradley E. Schaefer

We present results from the XMM observations of the dwarf nova YZ Cnc in a quiescent state. We have performed a detailed time series analysis of the resulting light curves. Unusually, we do not detect any orbital modulation in the UV, with…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Pasi Hakala , Gavin Ramsay , Peter Wheatley , Emilios Harlaftis , C. Papadimitriou

We investigate the structure of the wind in the neutron star X-ray binary system Vela X-1 by analyzing its flaring behavior. Vela X-1 shows constant flaring, with some flares reaching fluxes of more than 3.0 Crab between 20-60 keV for…

Many nearby AGNs display a significant short-term variability. In this work we re-analyze photometric data of four active galactic nuclei observed by Kepler in order to study the flickering activity, having as main goal that of searching…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2017-07-26 A. Dobrotka , V. Antonuccio-Delogu , I. Bajcicakova

The first calibrated broadband BVI time-series photometry is presented for the variable stars in NGC 2808, with observations spanning a range of twenty-eight years. We have also redetermined the variability types and periods for the…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-12 Andrea Kunder , Peter B. Stetson , Marcio Catelan , Alistair R. Walker , Pia Amigo

We have observed BL Lacertae in the B, R and I bands for 2 nights in July, 1999, and 3 nights in July, 2001. The observations resulted in almost evenly sampled light curves, with an average sampling interval of ~5 min. The source is…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 I. E. Papadakis , P. Boumis , V. Samaritakis , J. Papamastorakis

T Coronae Borealis (T CrB) is a symbiotic recurrent nova system expected to undergo its next outburst within the next two years. Recent hydrodynamic simulations have predicted the nucleosynthetic yields for both carbon-oxygen (CO) and…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2025-09-04 Emma Wallace , Christian Iliadis , Sumner Starrfield

A spectral variation accompanied with flux variability is a commonly-observed phenomenon for blazars. In order to further investigate the optical spectral feature of blazars, we have collected the long-term optical V and R band data of 27…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2023-01-18 Bing-Kai Zhang , Wei-Feng Tang , Chun-Xiao Wang , Qi Wu , Min Jin , Ben-Zhong Dai , Feng-Rong Zhu

O-stars are known to experience a wide range of variability mechanisms originating at both their surface and their near-core regions. Characterization and understanding of this variability and its potential causes are integral for…

Context: T CrB (NOVA CrB 1946) is a famous recurrent nova with a recurrence timescale of 80 years. Aims: We aim to estimate the colours, luminosity, and mass-accretion rate for T CrB (NOVA CrB 1946) during and after the superactive state.…

Solar and Stellar Astrophysics · Physics 2023-12-08 R. Zamanov , S. Boeva , G. Y. Latev , E. Semkov , M. Minev , A. Kostov , M. F. Bode , V. Marchev , D. Marchev

We present the analysis of X-ray spectral varability made on a sample of 7 Seyfert 1 bright galaxies, using XMM-Newton data. From the "XMM-Newton Science Archive" we selected those bright Seyfert 1 showing one or more prominent flares in…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 B. De Marco , M. Cappi , M. Dadina , G. G. C. Palumbo

We present the analysis of publicly available NuSTAR, Suzaku and XMM-Newton observations of the symbiotic recurrent nova T CrB covering the 2006.77-2022.66 yr period. The X-ray spectra are analysed by adopting a model that includes a…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-07-09 Jesús A. Toalá , Omaira González-Martín , Andrea Sacchi , Diego A. Vásquez-Torres

Understanding disc-corona geometry through X-ray reverberation variability studies in Seyfert galaxies is crucial, yet our knowledge mostly relies on flux-averaged mean spectral analysis. In this study, we investigate the origin of the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-02-13 Shree Suman , Mayukh Pahari , Gulab Dewangan , Ian M McHardy