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20162026
most citedX-ray Intraday Variability of Five TeV Blazars with NuSTAR

63 citations · 516 across the 30 of their papers we have counts for

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29 papers

astro-ph.GA2026

Mapping the Quasar Main Sequence in the UV range: A Connection with the UV Fe III Emission

D. Martínez Collipal, M. L. Martínez-Aldama, A. Pandey +3

The quasar main sequence (MS) provides a consistent unification scheme for type I AGNs. This framework, constructed from the relative flux between the optical emissions $\mathrm{H}…

astro-ph.HE2025

Signature of Seyfert-like component in a blazar 3C 273 and its reflection-based explanation

Haritma Gaur, Main Pal, Muhammad S. Anjum +4

We present the results of blazar 3C 273 obtained from simultaneous observations obtained using XMM-Newton and NuSTAR satellites during the period 2015-2019 in five epochs. When the…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 1 cited

Exploring the disc-jet scenario in 3C 273 using simultaneous XMM-Newton and NuSTAR observations

Ashwani Pandey, Santanu Mondal, Paul J. Wiita

Context: 3C 273, a well-studied active galactic nucleus (AGN), displays characteristics of both jetted-AGN and Seyfert galaxies, making it an excellent source to study the disc-jet…

astro-ph.GA2024★ 6 cited

Application of the FRADO model of BLR formation to the Seyfert galaxy NGC 5548 and the first step toward determining the Hubble constant

V. K. Jaiswal, Amit K. Mandal, R. Prince +5

The dynamical and geometric structures of the Broad Line Region (BLR), along with the origins of continuum time delays in active galaxies, remain topics of ongoing debate. In this…

astro-ph.HE2023

Origin of the broadband emission from the transition blazar B2 1308+326

Ashwani Pandey, Pankaj Kushwaha, Paul J. Wiita +3

Transition blazars exhibit a shift from one subclass to the next during different flux states. It is therefore crucial to study them to understand the underlying physics of blazars…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 12 cited

Broad-line region in active galactic nuclei: Dusty or dustless?

Ashwani Pandey, Bozena Czerny, Swayamtrupta Panda +5

Context. Dust in active galactic nuclei is clearly present right outside the broad-line region (BLR) in the form of a dusty molecular torus. However, some models of the BLR predict…

astro-ph.HE2023★ 4 cited

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

Ashwani Pandey, Rumen Bachev, Bozena Czerny +4

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 202…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 9 cited

UV Fe II emission model of HE 0413-4031 and its relation to broad-line time delays

Michal Zajaček, Swayamtrupta Panda, Ashwani Pandey +11

Fe II emission is a well-known contributor to the UV spectra of active galactic nuclei and the modeling of this part may affect the results obtained for the MgII emiss…

astro-ph.GA2023★ 13 cited

Wavelength-resolved reverberation mapping of intermediate redshift quasars HE 0413-4031 and HE 0435-4312: Dissecting Mg II, optical Fe II, and UV Fe II emission regions

Raj Prince, Michal Zajaček, S. Panda +24

We present the wavelength-resolved reverberation mapping (RM) of combined MgII and UV FeII broad-line emissions for two intermediate redshifts (z1), luminous quasars - HE 041…

astro-ph.GA2022★ 13 cited

Dusty plasma in active galactic nuclei

Bożena Czerny, Michal Zajaček, Mohammad-Hassan Naddaf +10

Since many years we know that dust in the form of the dusty-molecular torus is responsible for the obscuration in active galactic nuclei (AGN) at large viewing angles and thus for…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 19 cited

Detection of minute-timescale gamma-ray variability in BL Lacertae by Fermi-LAT

Ashwani Pandey, C. S. Stalin

BL Lacertae, the prototype of the BL Lacertae (BL Lac) category of blazars, underwent a giant ray flare in April 2021. The Large Area Telescope (LAT) onboard the Fermi Gamma-ra…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 15 cited

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

Bhoomika Rajput, Ashwani Pandey, C. S. Stalin +1

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 a…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 13 cited

Characterizing the optical nature of the blazar S5 1803+784 during its 2020 flare

A. Agarwal, Ashwani Pandey, Aykut Özdönmez +3

We report the results from our study of the blazar S5 1803+784 carried out using the quasi-simultaneous , , , and observations from May 2020 to July 2021 on 122 nights…

astro-ph.HE2022★ 13 cited

Variable mass accretion and failed wind explain changing look phenomena in NGC 1365

Santanu Mondal, Tek P. Adhikari, Krzysztof Hryniewicz +2

Changing look active galactic nuclei (CLAGNs) show complex nature in their X-ray spectral shape and line of sight column density variation. The physical mechanisms responsible for…

astro-ph.HE2022

Intra-night optical variability monitoring of -ray emitting blazars

K. Subbu Ulaganatha Pandian, A. Natarajan, C. S. Stalin +3

We present the results obtained from our campaign to characterize the intra-night-optical variability properties of blazars detected by the {\it Fermi} Large Area Telescope. This i…

astro-ph.HE2021

-ray Flux and Spectral Variability of Blazar Ton 599 during Its 2021 Flare

Bhoomika Rajput, Ashwani Pandey

Blazars are known to emit exceptionally variable non-thermal emission over the wide range (from radio to -rays) of electromagnetic spectrum. We present here the results of our $…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 17 cited

Correlation between optical flux and polarization variations in Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars on diverse timescales

Ashwani Pandey, Bhoomika Rajput, C. S. Stalin

Study of the polarization behaviour in blazars is a powerful tool to discern the role of magnetic field in the variable emission process in their relativistic jets. We present here…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 49 cited

Investigation of the correlation patterns and the Compton dominance variability of Mrk 421 in 2017

MAGIC Collaboration, V. A. Acciari, S. Ansoldi +284

We present a detailed characterisation and theoretical interpretation of the broadband emission of the paradigmatic TeV blazar Mrk 421, with special focus on the multi-band flux co…

astro-ph.HE2021★ 2 cited

Breaks in the X-ray spectra of high redshift blazars and the intervening medium

Haritma Gaur, Prashanth Mohan, Ashwani Pandey

The flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) are a sub-class of blazars characterised by prominent optical emission lines and a collimated large-scale jet along the observer line of sig…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 2 cited

NuSTAR View of TeV Blazar Mrk 501

Ashwani Pandey

We report the results of flux and spectral variability studies of all seven {\it Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)} observations of TeV ray emitting blazar Markari…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 14 cited

Optical Variability of Three Extreme TeV Blazars

Ashwani Pandey, Alok C. Gupta, G. Damljanovic +3

We present the results of optical photometric observations of three extreme TeV blazars, 1ES 0229200, 1ES 0414009, and 1ES 2344514, taken with two telescopes (1.3 m Devast…

astro-ph.HE2020★ 16 cited

Optical Variability of the TeV Blazar 1ES 0806+524 on Diverse Timescales

Ashwani Pandey, Alok C. Gupta, Sofia O. Kurtanidze +14

We report the results of our optical (VRI) photometric observations of the TeV blazar 1ES 0806524 on 153 nights during 2011-2019 using seven optical telescopes in Europe and Asi…

astro-ph.HE2019★ 30 cited

Optical Flux and Spectral Variability of the TeV blazar PG 1553+113

Ashwani Pandey, Alok C. Gupta, Paul J. Wiita +1

We present the results of our optical (VRI) observations of the TeV blazar PG 1553+113 over eight nights in 2016 April. We monitored the blazar quasi-simultaneously in V and R band…

astro-ph.SR2019★ 33 cited

Full orbital solution for the binary system in the northern Galactic disc microlensing event Gaia16aye

Łukasz Wyrzykowski, P. Mróz, K. A. Rybicki +182

Gaia16aye was a binary microlensing event discovered in the direction towards the northern Galactic disc and was one of the first microlensing events detected and alerted to by the…