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BL Lac has entered an active state since 2020, with multiwavelength observations revealing intense flares. In this study, we conducted 12-night multicolor optical monitoring using an 85 cm telescope from 2020 September to 2024 June and…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2026-03-05 Hanxiao Xia , Ziming Wang , Jianghua Wu , Yue Fang , Shiyu Du

The properties of blazar variability in the radio band are studied using the unique combination of temporal resolution from single dish monitoring and spatial resolution from VLBA imaging; such measurements, now available in all four Stokes…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-20 Margo F. Aller , Hugh D. Aller , Philip A. Hughes

We present results of first-principles calculations of the frequency-dependent polarizabilities of all alkali atoms for light in the wavelength range 300-1600 nm, with particular attention to wavelengths of common infrared lasers. We…

Atomic Physics · Physics 2009-11-11 M. S. Safronova , Bindiya Arora , Charles W. Clark

We study the X-ray spectra of 114 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) using the hardness ratios as given in the WGA catalogue of ROSAT sources. This sample includes all WGA FSRQ with high-quality data and comprises about 20 per cent of…

Astrophysics · Physics 2015-06-24 Paolo Padovani , Paolo Giommi , Fabrizio Fiore

We report here the study, in the radio band, of a sample of candidates of high Rotation Measure (RM). The point-like objects (at kpc scale) were selected by choosing unpolarised sources from the NVSS which show significant linear…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2016-03-16 Alice Pasetto , Alex Kraus , Karl-Heinz Mack , Gabriele Bruni , Carlos Carrasco-Gonzalez

We observed 51 sources in the Q-U-I JOint TEnerife (QUIJOTE) cosmological fields which were brighter than 1 Jy at 30 GHz in the Planck Point Source Catalogue (version 1), with the Very Large Array at 28 -- 40 GHz, in order to characterise…

We present the results of parsec-scale circular polarization (CP) measurements based on VLBA data for a number of radio-bright, core-dominated AGN obtained simultaneously at 15, 22 and 43 GHz. The degrees of CP $m_c$ for the VLBI core…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 V. M. Vitrishchak , D. C. Gabuzda , E. A. Rastorgueva , S. P. O'Sullivan , A. O'Dowd

We define 3 samples of extragalactic radio sources of type FRII, containing 26 objects in total. The control sample consists of 6C and 7C sources with radio powers of around 10e27 W\Hz at 151 MHz and redshifts of around z=1. The other…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 J. A. Goodlet , C. R. Kaiser , P. N. Best , J. Dennett-Thorpe

The polarization properties of a magnetophotonic crystal at the frequencies located in the vicinity of ferromagnetic resonance are studied. The investigations are curried out taking into consideration the fact that the magnitude of material…

Optics · Physics 2010-11-17 Vladimir R. Tuz , Mikhail Yu. Vidil , Sergey L. Prosvirnin

We address the nature of broad-lined radio galaxies, in particular their radio axis orientation, using new, matched resolution, dual frequency radio observations of a sample of twelve nearby broad-lined extragalactic 3C objects. Radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 J. Dennett-Thorpe , P. D. Barthel , I. M. van Bemmel

We study a conspicuous ring-like structure with a radius of about 1.4 degrees which was observed with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope (WSRT) at 5 frequencies around 350 MHz. This ring is very prominent in Stokes Q and U, and less…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 M. Haverkorn , P. Katgert , A. G. de Bruyn

We monitored BL Lacertae in the B, V, R and I bands for 14 nights during the period of 2016-2018. The source showed significant intraday variability on 12 nights. We performed colour-magnitude analysis and found that the source exhibited…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2021-12-08 Tian Li , Jianghua Wu , Nankun Meng , Yan Dai , Xiaoyuan Zhang

We present VLA and first-epoch VLBA observations that are part of a program to study the parsec-scale radio structure of a sample of fifteen high-energy-peaked BL Lacs (HBLs). The sample was chosen to span the range of logarithmic X-ray to…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 T. A. Rector , D. C. Gabuzda , J. T. Stocke

We present a spectropolarimetric survey of 36 broad absorption line quasi-stellar objects (BAL QSOs). The continuum, absorption trough, and emission line polarization of BAL QSOs yield clues about their structure. We confirm that BAL QSOs…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. M. Ogle , M. H. Cohen , J. S. Miller , H. D. Tran , R. W. Goodrich , A. R. Martel

We have observed 28 sources selected from the 1Jy sample of BL Lac objects (Stickel et al. 1991) with the Very Large Array (VLA) in A, B and D configurations at 1.36, 1.66 and 4.85 GHz, and/or with the Westerbork Synthesis Radio Telescope…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-31 P. Cassaro , C. Stanghellini , M. Bondi , D. Dallacasa , R. Della Ceca , R. A. Zappala`

In this study, we analyze the $\sim 16$ yr Fermi-LAT data of 160 blazars consisting of 92 flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), 64 BL Lacertae type objects (BL Lacs), and 4 blazar candidates of unknown type objects (BCU), and exhibit their…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-01-22 Junhao Deng , Yunguo Jiang

We present the first deep VLA radio images of flat-spectrum radio quasars (FSRQ) with multiwavelength emission properties similar to those of BL Lacs with synchrotron X-rays. Our observations of twenty-five of these sources show that their…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Hermine Landt , Eric S. Perlman , Paolo Padovani

The polarization properties of radio sources at very low frequencies (<200 MHz) have not been widely measured, but the new generation of low-frequency radio telescopes, including the Low Frequency Array (LOFAR: a Square Kilometre Array Low…

Blazars are known to show periods of quiescence followed by outbursts visible throughout the electromagnetic spectrum. We present a novel maximum likelihood approach to capture this bimodal behavior by examining blazar radio variability in…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-03-30 I. Liodakis , V. Pavlidou , T. Hovatta , W. Max-Moerbeck , T. J. Pearson , J. L. Richards , A. C. S. Readhead

Since 1997, BL Lacertae has undergone a phase of high optical activity, with the occurrence of several prominent outbursts. Starting from 1999, the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) consortium has organized various multifrequency…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. Villata , C. M. Raiteri , V. M. Larionov , M. G. Nikolashvili , M. F. Aller