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most citedThe Spectral Energy Distributions of Fermi Blazars

182 citations

52 papers

astro-ph.GA2025★ 2 cited

Co-evolution of Nuclear Star Clusters and Massive Black Holes: Extreme Mass-Ratio Inspirals

Fupeng Zhang, Pau Amaro Seoane

We explore extreme mass-ratio inspirals (EMRIs) in the co-evolution of massive black holes (MBHs) and nuclear star clusters (NSCs), which host diverse stellar populations across a…

astro-ph.IM2025★ 59 cited

Introduction to the Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST)

CSST Collaboration, Yan Gong, Haitao Miao +119

The Chinese Space Station Survey Telescope (CSST) is an upcoming Stage-IV sky survey telescope, distinguished by its large field of view (FoV), high image quality, and multi-band o…

astro-ph.GA2025★ 4 cited

Self-consistent Solutions of Evolving Nuclear Star Clusters with Two-Dimensional Monte-Carlo Dynamical Simulations

Fupeng Zhang, Pau Amaro Seoane

We recently developed a Monte-Carlo method (GNC) that can simulate the dynamical evolution of a nuclear stellar cluster (NSC) with a massive black hole (MBH), where the two-body re…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 48 cited

Improving constraints on the extended mass distribution in the Galactic Center with stellar orbits

The GRAVITY Collaboration, Karim Abd El Dayem, Roberto Abuter +66

Studying the orbital motion of stars around Sagittarius A* in the Galactic Center provides a unique opportunity to probe the gravitational potential near the supermassive black hol…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 6 cited

Prospects for probing small-scale dark matter models with pulsars around Sagittarius A*

Zexin Hu, Lijing Shao, Fupeng Zhang

Future observations with next-generation large-area radio telescopes are expected to discover radio pulsars (PSRs) closely orbiting around Sagittarius~A* (Sgr~A*), the supermassive…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

The beaming effect for Fermi-LAT-detected FR-I radio galaxies

Xu-Hong Ye, Xiang-Tao Zeng, Dan-Yi Huang +3

Our knowledge of Giga-electron volt (GeV) radio galaxies has been revolutionized by the Fermi-LAT Telescope, which provides an excellent opportunity to study the physical propertie…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 23 cited

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

Rumen Bachev, Tushar Tripathi, Alok C. Gupta +15

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 sta…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 7 cited

Exploring TeV candidates of Fermi blazars through machine learning

J. T. Zhu, C. Lin, H. B. Xiao +3

In this work, we make use of a supervised machine learning algorithm based on Logistic Regression (LR) to select TeV blazar candidates from the 4FGL-DR2 / 4LAC-DR2, 3FHL, 3HSP, and…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 5 cited

The `blazar sequence' in TeV band

Zhihao Ouyang, Hubing Xiao, Jianzhen Chen +7

The `blazar sequence' has been proposed for more than 20 years, yet its nature is still unclear. In this work, for the first time, we expand this topic to the TeV band by using a s…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 9 cited

Variability and Spectral Behavior of Gamma-ray Flares of 3C 279

Gege Wang, Junhui Fan, Hubing Xiao +1

3C 279 showed enhanced flux variations in Fermi-LAT γ-ray observations from January to June 2018. We present a detailed Fermi-LAT analysis to investigate the variability and spectr…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 11 cited

Optical flux and spectral variability of BL Lacertae during its historical high outburst in 2020

Nibedita Kalita, Yuhai Yuan, Minfeng Gu +9

BL Lacertae had undergone a series of historical high flux activity over a year, from August 2020 in the optical to VHE -rays. In this paper, we report on optical flux and spect…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 22 cited

An extensive study of blazar broad emission line: Changing-look blazars and Baldwin effect

Hubing Xiao, Junhui Fan, Zhihao Ouyang +4

It is known that the blazar jet emissions are dominated by non-thermal radiation while the accretion disk jets are normally dominated by thermal emission. In this work, our aim is…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 1 cited

Constraining the -ray Emission Region for Fermi-Detected FSRQs by the Seed Photon Approach

Danyi Huang, Ziyan Li, Jiru Liao +5

The location of -ray emitting region in blazars has been an open issue for several decades and is still being debated. We use the Paliya et al. sample of 619 -ray-loud flat-s…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 24 cited

A Possible 3-Year Quasi-Periodic Oscillation in γ-Ray Emission from the FSRQ S5 1044+71

G. G. Wang, J. T. Cai, J. H. Fan

Variability is a typical observation feature of Fermi blazars, sometimes it shows quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO). In this work, we obtained 5-day binned light curves (with a time…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 17 cited

The radio dichotomy of active galactic nuclei

Hubing Xiao, Jingtian Zhu, Liping Fu +2

The question of radio dichotomy in the active galactic nuclei (AGNs) is still in debate even it has been proposed for more than forty years. In order to solve the old riddle, we co…

astro-ph.SR2021★ 7 cited

A Catalog of LAMOST Variable Sources Based on Time-domain Photometry of ZTF

Tingting Xu, Chao Liu, Feng Wang +4

The identification and analysis of different variable sources is a hot issue in astrophysical research. The Large Sky Area Multi-Object Fiber Spectroscopic Telescope (LAMOST) spect…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 29 cited

The Estimation of Fundamental Physics Parameters for Fermi-LAT Blazars

Zhiyuan Pei, Junhui Fan, Jianghe Yang +2

Aiming to delineate the physical framework of blazars, we present an effective method to estimate four important parameters based on the idea proposed by \citet{BK95}, including th…

astro-ph.GA2021★ 15 cited

Unification of BL Lac objects, FR I and FR II(G) radio galaxies and Doppler factor Estimation for BL Lac Objects

Xu-Hong Ye, Jun-Hui Fan

In this work, we collected a sample of BL Lacs, FR I and FR II(G) radio galaxies with available core and extended emissions from published works to discuss the unified schemes and…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 30 cited

The relativistic jet and its central engine of blazars

Hubing Xiao, Zhihao OuYang, Lixia Zhang +4

Jet origination is one of the most important questions of AGN, yet it stays obscure. In this work, we made use of information of emission lines, spectral energy distributions (SEDs…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 110 cited

X-ray Quasi-periodic Eruptions driven by Star-Disc Collisions : Application to GSN069 and Probing the Spin of Massive Black Holes

Jingtao Xian, Fupeng Zhang, Liming Dou +2

X-ray quasi-periodic eruptions (QPEs) are discovered recently in active galaxies with unknown driven mechanism. Under the assumption that QPEs are caused by star-disc collisions, w…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 22 cited

The Eccentric and Accelerating Stellar Binary Black Hole Mergers in Galactic Nuclei: Observing in Ground and Space Gravitational Wave Observatories

Fupeng Zhang, Xian Chen, Lijing Shao +1

We study the stellar binary black holes (BBHs) inspiralling/merging in galactic nuclei based on our numerical method GNC. We find that of all new born BBHs will finally me…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 14 cited

A broadband radio study of PSR J0250+5854: the slowest-spinning radio pulsar known

C. H. Agar, P. Weltevrede, L. Bondonneau +19

We present radio observations of the most slowly rotating known radio pulsar PSR J0250+5854. With a 23.5 s period, it is close, or even beyond, the - diagram region tho…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 37 cited

AT2019 avd: A tidal disruption event with a two-phase evolution

Jin-Hong Chen, Li-Ming Dou, Rong-Feng Shen

Tidal disruption events (TDEs) can uncover the quiescent supermassive black holes (SMBHs) at the center of galaxies. After the disruption of a star by a SMBH, the highly elliptical…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 14 cited

Beamed and unbeamed emission of -ray blazars

Zhiyuan Pei, Junhui Fan, Jianghe Yang +1

A two-component model of radio emission has been used to explain some radio observational properties of Active Galactic Nuclei (AGNs) and, in particular, of blazars. In this work,…