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With an aim to explore optical variability at diverse timescales in BL Lac source S5 0716+714, it was observed for 46 nights during 2013 January 14 to 2015 June 01 when it underwent two major outbursts. The observations were made using the…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-09-26 Navpreet Kaur , Kiran S. Baliyan , S. Chandra , Sameer , S. Ganesh

We monitored the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 in the optical band during October 2008, December 2008 and February 2009 with a best temporal resolution of about 5 minutes in the BVRI bands. Four fast flares were observed with amplitudes ranging…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2014-11-20 H. Poon , J. H. Fan , J. N. Fu

We report results from a 1 week multi-wavelength campaign to monitor the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 (on December 9-16, 2009). In the radio bands the source shows rapid (~ (0.5-1.5) day) intra-day variability with peak amplitudes of up to ~…

This paper reports on the statistical behaviour of the optical IntraDay Variability of BL Lac S5 0716+714. Available IntraDay Variability data in the optical is tested to see whether or not the magnitude is log-normally distributed. It was…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-09-10 B. Danila , A. Marcu , G. Mocanu

We present the historic light curve of the BL Lac object S5 0716+714, spanning the time interval from 1953 to 2003, built using Asiago archive plates and our recent CCD observations, together with literature data. The source shows an…

Astrophysics · Physics 2008-11-26 R. Nesci , E. Massaro , C. Rossi , S. Sclavi , M. Maesano , F. Montagni

We perform quasi-simultaneous optical multi-band monitoring of BL Lac object S5 0716+714 on seven nights from 2013 to 2016. Intra-day variability (IDV) is found on all seven nights. The source was faintest on JD 2456322 with 14.15 mags and…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2018-06-22 Xiaoyuan Zhang , Jianghua Wu , Nankun Meng

We present the results of our optical monitoring of the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 on seven nights in 2006 December. The monitoring was carried out simultaneously at three optical wavelengths with a novel photometric system. The object did…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-04 Jianghua Wu , Markus Boettcher , Xu Zhou , Xiangtao He , Jun Ma , Zhaoji Jiang

We report rapid optical variability for the blazar S5 0716+71 during 2010 March 08-10 & 19-20 in the CCD observations made from Mt.Abu Infrared Observatory. The light curves are constructed for the duration longer than 3-hours each night,…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2011-05-04 Sunil Chandra , K. S. Baliyan , S. Ganesh , U. C. Joshi

Optical monitoring of S5 0716+714 was performed with a 60/90 Schmidt telescope in 2003 November and December and 2004 January for studying the variability of the object on short timescales. Due to the high brightness of the source we could…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 Jianghua Wu , Bo Peng , Xu Zhou , Jun Ma , Zhaoji Jiang , Jiansheng Chen

We have observed S4 0954+658 in the BVRI bands in 2001, and in the BI bands in 2002. The observations resulted in almost evenly sampled light curves, 3-8 hours long, with an average sampling interval of ~5-15 min. Because of the dense…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. E. Papadakis , V. Samaritakis , P. Boumis , J. Papamastorakis

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 have monitored the BL Lacertae object S5 0716+714 in the optical bands during 2012 January and February with long time spans on intraday timescales ($>$5 hr) and high time resolutions. During this monitoring period, the object shows…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-07-19 Shanwei Hong , Dingrong Xiong , Jinming Bai

In this presentation, we report the results of intraday variability in the optical (BVRI bands) and hard X-ray band (3-79 keV) in a number of blazars. In the optical microvariability studies of the blazars S5 0716+714 and BL Lac, we…

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

In this work, we present the results of our multi-band microvariability study of the famous blazar BL Lac. We performed microvariablity observations of the source in the optical VRI bands for 4 nights in the year 2016. We studied the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-11-27 Gopal Bhatta , James R. Webb

We present results of two-colour photometry with high time resolution of the violently variable BL Lac object AO 0235+164. We have found extreme intranight variability with amplitudes of ~ 100 % over time scales of 24 hours. Changes of 0.5…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 G. E. Romero , S. A. Cellone , J. A. Combi

We monitored BL Lacertae frequently during 2014 - 2016 when it was generally in a high state. We searched for intra-day variability for 43 nights using quasi-simultaneous measurements in the B, V, R, and I bands (totaling 143 light curves);…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-12-20 Haritma Gaur , Alok C. Gupta , R. Bachev , A. Strigachev , E. Semkov , Paul J. Wiita , M. F. Gu , S. Ibryamov

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,…

We present the analysis results of flux and spectral variability of the blazar OP 313 across intra-night to short-term timescales using BVRI photometric data, gathered over 25 nights from Nov 2024 to May 2025, using two optical telescopes…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-09-11 P. U. Devanand , Alok C. Gupta , Karan Dogra , Shubham Kishore , Tushar Tripathi

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

Variability is one of the extreme observational properties of BL Lacertae objects. AO 0235+164 is a well studied BL Lac through the whole electro-magnetic wavebands. In the present work, we show its optical R band photometric observations…

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