Multiband Optical Variability of the Blazar 3C 454.3 on Diverse Timescales

Autor: Dogra, Karan, Gupta, Alok C., Raiteri, C. M., Villata, M., Wiita, Paul J., Kurtanidze, S. O., Jorstad, S. G., Bachev, R., Damljanovic, G., Lorey, C., Savchenko, S. S., Vince, O., Abdelkareem, M., Aceituno, F. J., Acosta-Pulido, J. A., Agudo, I., Andreuzzi, G., Ata, S. A., Baida, G. V., Barbieri, L., Blinov, D. A., Bonnoli, G., Borman, G. A., Carnerero, M. I., Carosati, D., Casanova, V., Chen, W. P., Cui, Lang, Elhosseiny, E. G., Elsaesser, D., Escudero, J., Feige, M., Gazeas, K., Gennadievna, L. E., Grishina, T. S., Gu, Minfeng, Hagen-Thorn, V. A., Hemrich, F., Hsiao, H. Y., Ismail, M., Ivanidze, R. Z., Jovanovic, M. D., Kamel, T. M., Kimeridze, G. N., Kopatskaya, E. N., Kuberek, D., Kurtanidze, O. M., Kurtenkov, A., Larionov, V. M., Larionova, L. V., Liao, M., Lin, H. C., Mannheim, K., Marchini, A., Marinelli, C., Marscher, A. P., Morcuende, D., Morozova, D. A., Nazarov, S. V., Nikolashvili, M. G., Reinhart, D., Santos, J. O., Scherbantin, A., Semkov, E., Shishkina, E. V., Sigua, L. A., Singh, A. K., Sota, A., Steineke, R., Stojanovic, M., Strigachev, A., Takey, A., Tawfeek, Amira A., Troitskiy, I. S., Troitskaya, Y. V., Tsai, An-Li, Vasilyev, A. A., Vrontaki, K., Zhang, Zhongli, Zhovtan, A. V., Zottmann, N., Zuo, Wenwen

Publikováno v: ApJS(2025) 276:1

Due to its peculiar and highly variable nature, the blazar 3C 454.3 has been extensively monitored by the WEBT team. Here, we present for the first time these long-term optical flux and color variability results using data acquired in B, V, R, and I

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2412.10766

A wiggling filamentary jet at the origin of the blazar multi-wavelength behaviour

Autor: Raiteri, C. M., Villata, M., Carnerero, M. I., Kurtanidze, S. O., Mirzaqulov, D. O., Benítez, E., Bonnoli, G., Carosati, D., Acosta-Pulido, J. A., Agudo, I., Andreeva, T. S., Apolonio, G., Bachev, R., Borman, G. A., Bozhilov, V., Brown, L. F., Carbonell, W., Casadio, C., Chen, W. P., Damljanovic, G., Ehgamberdiev, S. A., Elsaesser, D., Escudero, J., Feige, M., Fuentes, A., Gabellini, D., Gazeas, K., Giroletti, M., Grishina, T. S., Gupta, A. C., Gurwell, M. A., Hagen-Thorn, V. A., Hamed, G. M., Hiriart, D., Hodges, M., ivanidze, R. Z., Ivanov, D. V., Joner, M. D., Jorstad, S. G., Jovanovic, M. D., Kiehlmann, S., Kimeridze, G. N., Kopatskaya, E. N., Kovalev, Yu. A., Kovalev, Y. Y., Kurtanidze, O. M., Kurtenkov, A., Larionova, E. G., Lessing, A., Lin, H. C., López, J. M., Lorey, C., Ludwig, J., Marchili, N., Marchini, A., Marscher, A. P., Matsumoto, K., Max-Moerbeck, W., Mihov, B., Minev, M., Mingaliev, M. G., Modaressi, A., Morozova, D. A., Mortari, F., Mufakharov, T. V., Myserlis, I., Nikolashvili, M. G., Pearson, T. J., Popkov, A. V., Rahimov, I. A., Readhead, A. C. S., Reinhart, D., Reeves, R., Righini, S., Romanov, F. D., Savchenko, S. S., Semkov, E., Shishkina, E. V., Sigua, L. A., Slavcheva-Mihova, L., Sotnikova, Yu. V., Steineke, R., Stojanovic, M., Strigachev, A., Takey, A., Traianou, E., Troitskaya, Yu. V., Troitskiy, I. S., Tsai, A. L., Valcheva, A., Vasilyev, A. A., Verna, G., Vince, O., Vrontaki, K., Weaver, Z. R., Webb, J., Yuldoshev, Q. X., Zaharieva, E., Zhovtan, A. V.

Publikováno v: A&A 692 (2024) A48

Blazars are beamed active galactic nuclei known for their strong multi-wavelength variability on timescales from years down to minutes. We aim to investigate the suitability of the twisting jet model presented in previous works to explain the multi-w

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2410.22319

Optical intra-day variability of the blazar S5 0716+714

Autor: Tripathi, Tushar, Gupta, Alok C., Takey, Ali, Bachev, Rumen, Vince, Oliver, Strigachev, Anton, Kushwaha, Pankaj, Elhosseiny, E. G., Wiita, Paul J., Damljanovic, G., Dhiman, Vinit, Fouad, A., Gaur, Haritma, Gu, Minfeng, Hamed, G. E., Kishore, Shubham, Kurtenkov, A., Rastogi, Shantanu, Semkov, E., Zead, I., Zhang, Zhongli

We present an extensive recent multi-band optical photometric observations of the blazar S5 0716+714 carried out over 53 nights with two telescopes in India, two in Bulgaria, one in Serbia, and one in Egypt during 2019 November -- 2022 December. We c

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.10358

Multi-band optical variability on diverse timescales of the TeV blazar TXS 0506+56, the first cosmic neutrino source

Autor: Dhiman, Vinit, Gupta, Alok C., Bachev, Rumen, Wiita, Paul J., Cellone, Sergio A., Strigachev, A., Gaur, Haritma, Darriba, A., Bisen, D. P., Locatelli, G., Mammana, L. A., Semkov, E.

We report the first extensive optical flux and spectral variability study of the TeV blazar TXS 0506+056 on intra-night to long-term timescales using BVRI data collected over 220 nights between January 21, 2017 to April 9, 2022 using 8 optical ground

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2311.02352

Investigating the origin of optical flares from the TeV blazar S4 0954+65

Autor: Pandey, Ashwani, Bachev, Rumen, Czerny, Bozena, Wiita, Paul J., Gupta, Alok C., Strigachev, Anton, Popowicz, Adam

Publikováno v: A&A 679, A28 (2023)

Aims. We aim to investigate the extreme variability properties of the TeV blazar S4 0954+65 using optical photometric and polarisation observations carried out between 2017 and 2023 using three ground-based telescopes. Methods. We examined an extensi

Externí odkaz: http://arxiv.org/abs/2310.05104