Exploring short-term optical variability of blazars using TESS

VR Pininti, G Bhatta, S Paul, A Kumar… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We present a first systematic time series study of a sample of blazars observed by the
Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite (TESS). By cross matching the positions of the sources …

Long-Term X-ray Outburst in the Tev-Detected Blazar Mrk 501 in 2021–2022: Further Clues for the Emission and Unstable Processes

B Kapanadze, A Gurchumelia… - The Astrophysical Journal …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
This paper presents the results of a detailed X-ray timing and spectral analysis of Mrk 501,
which are based mainly on the Swift data obtained during 2021 February–2022 December …

X-ray flux and spectral variability of the blazar OJ 287 with Suzaku

D Zhou, Z Zhang, AC Gupta… - Monthly Notices of …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We present analyses of Suzaku XIS light curves and spectra of the BL Lac object OJ 287
with observations positioned primarily around proposed recurrent optical outbursts. The first …

The High Energy X-ray Probe (HEX-P): the most powerful jets through the lens of a superb X-ray eye

L Marcotulli, M Ajello, M Böttcher, P Coppi… - Frontiers in Astronomy …, 2024 - frontiersin.org
A fraction of the active supermassive black holes at the centers of galaxies in our Universe
are capable of launching extreme kiloparsec-long relativistic jets. These jets are known …

X-ray intraday variability of the TeV blazar Markarian 421 with XMM-Newton

AP Noel, H Gaur, AC Gupta… - The Astrophysical …, 2022 - iopscience.iop.org
Highly variable Markarian 421 is a bright high–synchrotron energy peaked blazar showing a
wide featureless nonthermal spectrum, making it a good candidate for our study of intraday …

Spectral Energy Distribution Variability of the Blazar OJ 287 During 2009–2021

W Zuo, AC Gupta, M Gu, MJ Valtonen… - The Astrophysical …, 2025 - iopscience.iop.org
Using nearly simultaneous radio, near-infrared, optical, and ultraviolet (UV) data collected
since 2009, we constructed 106 spectral energy distributions (SEDs) of the blazar OJ 287 …

A Special State Transition in the Blazar OT 081: Implication for the Unified State Transition Paradigm of Different-scale Black Hole Systems

N Ding, Q Gu, Y Tang, X Geng, Y Chen… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Exploring the similar behavior of black hole systems with different scales will provide insight
into the unified physical laws of black hole systems. Here, we report a special spectral state …

Constraining X-ray variability of the blazar 3C 273 using XMM-Newton observations over two decades

A Dinesh, G Bhatta, TP Adhikari… - The Astrophysical …, 2023 - iopscience.iop.org
Blazars exhibit relentless variability across diverse spatial and temporal frequencies. The
study of long-and short-term variability properties observed in the X-ray band provides …

Unveiling the Emission and Variation Mechanism of Mrk 501: Using the Multi-Wavelength Data at Different Time Scale

L Liu, Y Jiang, J Deng, Z Chen, C Ma - Universe, 2024 - mdpi.com
Variability study at multi-frequency provides us with rich information of the emission and
variation mechanism for blazars. In this work, we present a comprehensive multi-frequency …

Probing X-ray Timing and Spectral Variability in the Blazar PKS 2155-304 Over a Decade of XMM-Newton Observations

G Bhatta, SC Chaudhary, N Dhital, TP Adhikari… - arXiv preprint arXiv …, 2024 - arxiv.org
Blazars, a class of active galactic nuclei (AGN) powered by supermassive black holes, are
known for their remarkable variability across multiple timescales and wavelengths. With …