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We present optical colors of 72 transneptunian objects (TNOs), and infrared colors of 80 TNOs obtained with the WFPC2 and NICMOS instruments, respectively, on the Hubble Space Telescope (HST). Both optical and infrared colors are available…

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It has been known for many years that there is an apparent trend for the spectral index ({\alpha}) of radio sources to steepen with redshift z, which has led to attempts to select high-redshift objects by searching for radio sources with…

We present multiwavelength data for twelve blazars observed from 2008-2010 as part of an ongoing optical-infrared photometric monitoring project. Sources were selected to be bright, southern (dec < 20 deg) blazars observed by the Fermi…

High Energy Astrophysical Phenomena · Physics 2015-06-03 E. W. Bonning , C. M. Urry , C. Bailyn , M. Buxton , R. Chatterjee , P. Coppi , G. Fossati , J. Isler , L. Maraschi

Multi-band near-infrared images of twelve BL Lacertae objects were obtained with the 2.5m telescope at the Las Campanas Observatory in order to determine the properties of their underlying host galaxies. Resolved emission was clearly…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 C. C. Cheung , C. Megan Urry , Riccardo Scarpa , Mauro Giavalisco

We present recent X-ray 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. We briefly discuss the statistical properties of…

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We discuss the optical polarization properties of X-ray selected BL Lacertae objects (XSBLs) as determined from three years of monitoring 37 BL Lac objects and candidates. The observed objects include a complete X-ray flux limited sample…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-22 B. T. Jannuzi , P. S. Smith , R. Elston

We have organized an extensive multiwavelength campaign on BL Lacertae in the second half of 2000. Simultaneous or quasi-simultaneous observations were taken at radio frequencies, in the optical - carried out by the WEBT collaboration -, in…

A new continuous classification system for BL Lacertae (BL Lac) objects is proposed. The peak frequency of the synchrotron component in the $\nu L_{\nu}$ spectrum is used as a classifying parameter. The application of the accelerating inner…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 Markos Georganopoulos , Alan P. Marscher

We monitored the BL Lac object S5 0716+714 in the optical band during the period November 1994-April 1995, which includes the time of a gamma-ray observation by the Energetic Gamma Ray Experiment Telescope (EGRET) on February 14--28, 1995.…

An extensive photometric monitoring of KH 15D, an enigmatic variable in the young star cluster NGC 2264, has been conducted. Simultaneous and accurate near-infrared (JHKs-bands) photometry is presented between 2003 December and 2005 March…

We have obtained high dynamic range, good natural seeing i' images of BL Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) to search for the AGN host and thus constrain the source redshift. These objects are drawn from a sample of bright flat-spectrum radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-18 Aaron M. Meisner , Roger W. Romani

L and T dwarfs emit most of their radiation in the near infrared and their spectral energy distributions are dominated by strong molecular absorption bands. These highly structured energy distributions lead to JHK magnitudes that are…

Astrophysics · Physics 2010-01-28 Denise C. Stephens , Sandy K. Leggett

A set of potentially gamma-ray--loud BL Lac objects is selected by intersecting the EGRET and BL Lac catalogs. Of the resulting 14 objects, eight are found to correlate with arrival directions of ultra--high-energy cosmic rays (UHECRs),…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-07 D. Gorbunov , P. Tinyakov , I. Tkachev , S. Troitsky

Long-term (up to 10000d) monitoring has been undertaken for 41 Seyferts in the near-IR (JHKL). All but 2 showed variability, with K ampl in the range <0.1 to > 1.1 mags. The timescale for detectable change is from about one week to a few…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-11-10 I. S. Glass

BL Lacertae has been the target of four observing campaigns by the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) collaboration. In this paper we present $UBVRI$ light curves obtained by the WEBT from 1994 to 2002, including the last, extended BL Lac…

Astrophysics · Physics 2019-08-14 M. Villata , C. M. Raiteri

We present the radio detection of 18 BL Lac objects from our survey of over 575 square degrees of sky. These 18 objects are located within 20 arcsec of the X-ray position, of which 11 have a measured red-shift. All candidates are radio…

Cosmology and Nongalactic Astrophysics · Physics 2015-05-13 M. W. B. Anderson , M. D. Filipović

The bright X-ray selected BL Lacertae object PKS 2155-304 has been the target of two intense multiwavelength campaigns, in November 1991 and in May 1994. Although the spectral energy distributions at both epochs were quite similar, the…

Astrophysics · Physics 2009-10-30 Markos Georganopoulos , Alan P. Marscher

Using three complete, radio flux limited, blazar samples we compare the LogN-LogS and the preliminary radio luminosity function of the general population of BL Lacs to those of the subclass of high energy synchrotron peaked (HBL) BL Lacs.…

Astrophysics · Physics 2007-05-23 P. Giommi , P. Padovani , M. Perri , H. Landt , E. Perlman

We present a sample of 386 BL Lacertae (BL Lac) candidates identified from 2860 deg^2 of the Sloan Digital Sky Survey (SDSS) spectroscopic database. The candidates are primarily selected to have quasi-featureless optical spectra and low…