Characterizing the gamma-ray variability of the brightest flat spectrum radio quasars observed with the Fermi LAT

M Meyer, JD Scargle, RD Blandford - The Astrophysical Journal, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
Almost 10 yr of γ-ray observations with the Fermi Large Area Telescope have revealed
extreme γ-ray outbursts from flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs), temporarily making these …

Rapid variability of blazar 3C 279 during flaring states in 2013− 2014 with joint Fermi-LAT, NuSTAR, Swift, and ground-based multi-wavelength observations

M Hayashida, K Nalewajko, GM Madejski… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We report the results of a multiband observing campaign on the famous blazar 3C 279
conducted during a phase of increased activity from 2013 December to 2014 April, including …

Fermi/LAT broad emission line blazars

G Ghisellini, F Tavecchio - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We study the broad emission line blazars detected in the γ-ray band by the Large Area
Telescope onboard the Fermi satellite and with the optical spectrum studied by Shaw et al …

RoboPol: first season rotations of optical polarization plane in blazars

D Blinov, V Pavlidou, I Papadakis… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present first results on polarization swings in optical emission of blazars obtained by
RoboPol, a monitoring programme of an unbiased sample of gamma-ray bright blazars …

RoboPol: Connection between optical polarization plane rotations and gamma-ray flares in blazars

D Blinov, V Pavlidou, I Papadakis… - Monthly Notices of …, 2018 - academic.oup.com
We use results of our 3 yr polarimetric monitoring programme to investigate the previously
suggested connection between rotations of the polarization plane in the optical emission of …

Equipartition gamma-ray blazars and the location of the gamma-ray emission site in 3C 279

CD Dermer, M Cerruti, B Lott, C Boisson… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Blazar spectral models generally have numerous unconstrained parameters, leading to
ambiguous values for physical properties like Doppler factor δ D or fluid magnetic field B'. To …

Active galactic nuclei at gamma-ray energies

CD Dermer, B Giebels - Comptes …, 2016 - comptes-rendus.academie-sciences …
Les noyaux actifs de galaxie peuvent être de puissants émetteurs dans tout le domaine γ, du
MeV au TeV, un phénomène dû à la présence de jets relativistes, en liaison avec un trou …

Optical/γ-ray blazar flare correlations: understanding the high-energy emission process using ASAS-SN and Fermi light curves

T de Jaeger, BJ Shappee, CS Kochanek… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
Using blazar light curves from the optical All-Sky Automated Survey for Supernovae (ASAS-
SN) and the γ-ray Fermi-LAT telescope, we performed the most extensive statistical …

Constraining the location of gamma-ray flares in luminous blazars

K Nalewajko, MC Begelman… - The Astrophysical …, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Locating the gamma-ray emission sites in blazar jets is a long standing and highly
controversial issue. We jointly investigate several constraints on the distance scale r and …

On the distribution of particle acceleration sites in plasmoid-dominated relativistic magnetic reconnection

K Nalewajko, DA Uzdensky, B Cerutti… - The Astrophysical …, 2015 - iopscience.iop.org
We investigate the distribution of particle acceleration sites, independently of the actual
acceleration mechanism, during plasmoid-dominated, relativistic collisionless magnetic …