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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,…

High resolution radio observations remain the most direct way to study the formation and evolution of radio jets associated with the accretion onto massive black holes. We report preliminary results of our seven year VLBA observational…

The apparent position of the "core" in a parsec-scale radio jet (a compact, bright emitting region at the narrow end of the jet) depends on the observing frequency, owing to synchrotron self-absorption and external absorption. While…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-05-16 Y. Y. Kovalev , A. P. Lobanov , A. B. Pushkarev , J. A. Zensus

Blazars can be classified on the basis of their overall Spectral Energy Distribution (SED). BL Lac objects are usually divided in LBL or HBL (Low or High energy peaked BL Lacs), according to the peak frequency of the synchrotron emission,…

We investigate the evolution of spectral energy distribution (SED) and underlying electron energy distribution (EED) by modeling the nearly simultaneous broadband spectra of selected bright 4FGL blazars, in the context of a combined cooling…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-04 Muhammad S. Anjum , Shu-Jin Hou , Liang Chen , Zhigang Li , Minfeng Gu

Jetted Active Galactic Nuclei (AGN) exhibit variability across a wide range of time scales. Traditionally, this variability can often be modeled well as a stochastic process. However, in certain cases, jetted AGN variability displays…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-03 P. Penil , A. Domínguez , S. Buson , M. Ajello , S. Adhikari , A. Rico

We have monitored the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 in five intermediate optical wavebands from 2004 September to 2011 April. Here we present the data that include 8661 measurements which represents one of the largest databases obtained for an…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-12 Yan Dai , Jianghua Wu , Zong-Hong Zhu , Xu Zhou , Jun Ma , Qirong Yuan , Lingzhi Wang

AT 2022cmc is a recently documented tidal disruption event (TDE) that exhibits a luminous jet, accompanied by fast-declining X-ray and long-lasting radio/millimeter emission. Motivated by the distinct spectral and temporal signatures…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2024-10-22 Chengchao Yuan , B. Theodore Zhang , Walter Winter , Kohta Murase

The data for BL Lac object S5 0716+714 optical B, R and I bands are collected from November 10, 2017 to May 15, 2018. The raw data consists of 21396 quasi-simultaneous multi-band points, with 7132 data points for each band. To search for…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2022-04-06 Lin Lu , Hao-Jing Zhang , Guo-Wei Ren

We present a comprehensive multi-wavelength investigation of BL Lac object OJ 287 using Swift and Fermi observatories spanning 2008-2025. The source exhibits significant flux variability across optical-UV, X-ray, and $\gamma$-ray regimes,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-10-22 Navaneeth P K , Gopal Bhatta , Sangeetha Kizhakkekalam

We present space-based very long baseline interferometry observations of the BL Lac type object OJ 287 taken with RadioAstron at 22 GHz on April 25, 2016, in conjunction with a ground array comprising 27 radio telescopes. We detect…

We present the results of global VLBI observations of the BL Lac object PKS 0003-066 at 2.3 and 8.6 GHz, over a 10 year period using data from new and archived VLBA, geodetic VLBI, and global VLBI (including the use of new disk-based…

We studied the temporal and spectral evolution of the synchrotron emission from the high energy peaked BL Lac object 1E 1207.9+3945. Two recent observations have been performed by the XMM-Newton and Swift satellites; we carried out X-ray…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 A. Maselli , P. Giommi , M. Perri , R. Nesci , A. Tramacere , F. Massaro , M. Capalbi

We present an overview of new HST imaging polarimetry of six nearby radio galaxies with optical jets. These observations triple the number of extragalactic jets with subarcsecond-resolution optical polarimetry. We discuss the polarization…

We summarize the results of BeppoSAX ToO observation of blazars that were known to be in a high state from observations carried out in the optical or X-ray or TeV bands.In some of the observed sources, two spectral components were detected,…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Gianpiero Tagliaferri , Gabriele Ghisellini , Marcello Ravasio

We present recent ROSAT, ASCA and SAX observations of intermediate BL Lac objects (IBLs), i.e. BL Lacs which are located between high-energy and low-energy peaked BL Lac objects with respect to alpha_rx. Both the statistical properties of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Siebert , W. Brinkmann , S. A. Laurent-Muehleisen

Results from a long-term program to quantify the range of behavior of the cm-wavelength total flux and linear polarization variability properties of a sample of 41 radio-loud BL Lac objects using weekly to tri-monthly observations with the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 Margo F. Aller , Hugh D. Aller , Philip A. Hughes , George E. Latimer

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

Using millimeter-very long baseline interferometry (VLBI) observations of the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 from August 2008 to September 2013, we investigate variations in the core flux density and orientation of the sub-parsec scale jet i.e.…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2014-11-11 B. Rani , T. P. Krichbaum , A. P. Marscher , S. G. Jorstad , J. A. Hodgson , L. Fuhrmann , J. A. Zensus

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