High-redshift blazars are one of the most powerful monsters in the universe and γ-ray variability carries crucial information of their relativistic jets. In this work we present results of the first systematical temporal analysis of {\it Fermi}-LAT data of all known seven γ-ray blazars beyond redshift 3. Significant long-term γ-ray variability is found from five sources in monthly γ-ray light curves, in which three of them are reported for the first time. Furthermore, intraday γ-ray variations are detected from NVSS J053954−283956 and NVSS J080518+614423. Doubling variability timescale of the former source is limited as short as ≲ 1 hour (at the source frame). Together with variability amplitude over one order of magnitude, NVSS J053954−283956 is the most distant γ-ray flaring blazar so far. Meanwhile, intraday optical variability of NVSS J163547+362930 is found based on archival PTF/iPTF light curve. Benefited from multiwavelength activity of these sources, constraints of their Doppler factors as well as locations of γ-ray radiation region and indications for the SDSS high redshift jetted active galactic nuclei deficit are discussed.
@article{arxiv.1710.02904,
title = {Fast $\gamma$-ray variability in blazars beyond redsift 3},
author = {Shang Li and Zi-Qing Xia and Yun-Feng Liang and Neng-Hui Liao and Yi-Zhong Fan},
journal= {arXiv preprint arXiv:1710.02904},
year = {2018}
}