Intra-night optical flux and polarization variability of BL Lacertae during its 2020–2021 high state

R Bachev, T Tripathi, AC Gupta… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
In this work, we report the presence of rapid intra-night optical variations in both flux and
polarization of the blazar BL Lacertae during its unprecedented 2020–2021 high state of …

Optical flux and spectral variability of blazars

H Gaur, AC Gupta, A Strigachev… - Monthly Notices of …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
We report the results of optical monitoring for a sample of 11 blazars including 10 BL
Lacertae objects (BL Lacs) and one flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ). We have measured …

Multiband optical variability studies of BL Lacertae

A Agarwal, AC Gupta - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We monitored BL Lacertae for 13 nights in optical B, V, R, and I bands during 2014 October
and November including quasi-simultaneous observations in V and R bands using two …

Multiband optical variability of the TeV blazar PG 1553+ 113 in 2019

V Dhiman, AC Gupta, SO Kurtanidze… - Monthly Notices of …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We report the flux and spectral variability of PG 1553+ 113 on intra-night (IDV) to short-term
time-scales using BVRI data collected over 91 nights from 28 February to 8 November 2019 …

X-ray Intraday Variability of Five TeV Blazars with NuSTAR

A Pandey, AC Gupta, PJ Wiita - The Astrophysical Journal, 2017 - iopscience.iop.org
Abstract We have examined 40 Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR) light
curves (LCs) of five TeV emitting high synchrotron peaked blazars: 1ES 0229+ 200, Mrk 421 …

Multiband optical variability of the blazar OJ 287 during its outbursts in 2015–2016

AC Gupta, A Agarwal, A Mishra, H Gaur… - Monthly Notices of …, 2017 - academic.oup.com
We present recent optical photometric observations of the blazar OJ 287 taken during 2015
September–2016 May. Our intense observations of the blazar started in 2015 November …

Study of correlation between optical flux and polarization variations in BL Lac objects

B Rajput, A Pandey, CS Stalin… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2022 - academic.oup.com
Polarized radiation from blazars is one key piece of evidence for synchrotron radiation at low
energy, which also shows variations. We present here our results on the correlation analysis …

Characterizing Optical Variability of OJ 287 in 2016–2017

AC Gupta, H Gaur, PJ Wiita, A Pandey… - The Astronomical …, 2019 - iopscience.iop.org
We report on a recent multiband optical photometric and polarimetric observational
campaign of the blazar OJ 287 that was carried out during 2016 September–2017 …

Nature of intranight optical variability of BL Lacertae

H Gaur, AC Gupta, R Bachev… - Monthly Notices of …, 2015 - academic.oup.com
We present the results of extensive multiband intranight optical monitoring of BL Lacertae
during 2010–2012. BL Lacertae was very active in this period and showed intense variability …

On the reliability of microvariability tests in quasars

JA De Diego - The Astronomical Journal, 2014 - iopscience.iop.org
Microvariations probe the physics and internal structure of quasars. Unpredictability and
small flux variations make this phenomenon elusive and difficult to detect. Variance-based …