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We report on two surveys of radio-weak AGN to look for radio variability. We find significant variability with an RMS of 10-20% on a timescale of months in radio-quiet and radio-intermediate quasars. This exceeds the variability of radio…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Heino Falcke , Joseph Lehar , Richard Barvainis , Neil M. Nagar , Andrew S. Wilson

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 determine the characteristics of the 7mm to 20cm wavelength radio variability in Sgr A* on time scales from days to three decades. The amplitude of the intensity modulation is between 30 and 39% at all wavelengths. Analysis of uniformly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-13 Jean-Pierre Macquart , Geoff Bower

Using three epochs of VLA observations of the Galactic Plane in the first quadrant taken ~15 years apart, we have conducted a search for a population of variable Galactic radio emitters in the flux density range 1-100 mJy at 6 cm. We find…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2015-05-18 Robert H. Becker , David J. Helfand , Richard L. White , Deanne D. Proctor

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 results from a pilot programme to monitor the short term optical variability in Broad Absorption Line system QSOs. Intra-night optical variations of ~5% were detected on time scales of ~ one hour in QSOs 0846+156 and…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 G. C. Anupama , Arati Chokshi

Radio-loud active galactic nuclei (AGN) are among the most luminous objects in the Universe, emitting radiation from low-energy radio waves to high energy $\gamma$-rays. They are well known to exhibit flux variations at nearly all…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2026-03-19 M. Reshma , C. S. Stalin , Amit Kumar Mandal , S. B. Gudennavar , Senorita Benedict , Prajwel Joseph

We consider the 1.5 years Fermi Large Area Telescope light curves (E > 100 MeV) of the flat spectrum radio quasars 3C 454.3 and PKS 1510-089, which show high activity in this period of time. We characterise the duty cycle of the source by…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 F. Tavecchio , G. Ghisellini , G. Bonnoli , G. Ghirlanda

We analyze 1598 serendipitous Chandra X-ray observations of 462 radio-quiet quasars to constrain the frequency of extreme amplitude X-ray variability that is intrinsic to the quasar corona and innermost accretion flow. The quasars in this…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2020-09-09 John D. Timlin , W. Niel Brandt , Shifu Zhu , Hezhen Liu , Bin Luo , Qingling Ni

A large sample of known and likely gamma-ray blazars has been monitored twice per week since late 2007 at 15 GHz with the Owens Valley Radio Observatory (OVRO) 40-meter Telescope. The sample contains about 1700 sources, including the…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2012-05-03 W. Max-Moerbeck , J. L. Richards , V. Pavlidou , T. Hovatta , O. G. King , T. J. Pearson , A. C. S. Readhead , R. Reeves , M. C. Shepherd

To understand the correlation and the radiation mechanism of flare emission in different wavelength bands, we have coordinated a number of telescopes to observe SgrA* simultaneously. We focus only on one aspect of the preliminary results of…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2010-04-05 F. Yusef-Zadeh , J. Miller-Jones , D. Roberts , M. Wardle , M. Reid , K. Dodds-Eden , D. Porquet , N. Grosso

We present Karl G. Jansky Very Large Array (VLA) S- (2--4 GHz), C- (4--8 GHz), and X-band (8--12 GHz) continuum observations toward seven radio-loud quasars at $z>5$. This sample has previously been found to exhibit spectral peaks at…

We use a sample of 3791 quasars from the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) Early Data Release (EDR), and compare their photometry to historic plate material for the same set of quasars in order to study their variability properties. The time…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 Wim de Vries , Bob Becker , Rick White

The F-GAMMA program is among the most comprehensive programs that aim at understanding the physics in active galactic nuclei through the multi-frequency monitoring of Fermi blazars. Here we discuss monthly sampled broad-band radio spectra…

Fast radio bursts (FRBs) are luminous, dispersed millisecond-duration radio bursts whose origin is poorly known. Recent observations suggest that some FRBs may reside in binary systems, even though conclusive evidence remains elusive. Here…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2025-05-15 Jiangwei Xu , Heng Xu , Yanjun Guo , Jinchen Jiang , Bojun Wang , Zihan Xue , Yunpeng Men , Kejia Lee , Bing Zhang , Weiwei Zhu , Jinlin Han

We present a study of the radio and optical properties of the high-frequency peaker (HFP) blazar PKS 1614+051 at $z=3.21$ based on the data covering the time period of 1997-2024. The radio data are represented by the almost instantaneous…

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…

[abridged] We describe the results of our multi-wavelength observing campaign on the young stellar objects in the LkH$\alpha$101 cluster. Our simultaneous X-ray and multi-frequency radio observations are unique in providing simultaneous…

Astrophysics · Physics 2011-02-11 R. A. Osten , S. J. Wolk

J1415+1320 is a well-studied blazar that exhibits strong flux density variability at a wide range of radio frequencies (2.4 $-$ 230~GHz). In this letter, we present a variability study of this source at 327~MHz using the data obtained with…

Astrophysics of Galaxies · Physics 2022-02-28 Sravani Vaddi , P. K. Manoharan , Anish Roshi

Young stellar objects are known to exhibit strong radio variability on timescales of weeks to months, and a few reports have documented extreme radio flares, with at least an order of magnitude change in flux density on timescales of hours…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2017-08-02 Jan Forbrich , Mark J. Reid , Karl M. Menten , Victor Rivilla , Scott J. Wolk , Urvashi Rau , Claire J. Chandler