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most citedA Unifying View of the Spectral Energy Distributions of Blazars

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astro-ph.HE2014★ 20 cited

Magnetic Field Amplification and Flat Spectrum Radio Quasars

Xuhui Chen, Ritaban Chatterjee, Haocheng Zhang +10

We perform time-dependent, spatially-resolved simulations of blazar emission to evaluate several flaring scenarios related to magnetic-field amplification and enhanced particle acc…

astro-ph.CO2013★ 45 cited

A Time Resolved Study of the Broad Line Region in Blazar 3C 454.3

Jedidah C. Isler, C. Megan Urry, Paolo Coppi +6

We present multi-epoch optical observations of the blazar 3C 454.3 (z = 0.859) from 2008 August through 2011 December, using the SMARTS Consortium 1.5m+RCSpectrograph and 1.3m+ANDI…

astro-ph.HE2013★ 2 cited

Magnetic Field Amplification and Blazar Flares

Xuhui Chen, Ritaban Chatterjee, Giovanni Fossati +1

Recent multiwavelength observations of PKS 0208-512 by SMARTS, Fermi, and Swift revealed that gamma-ray and optical light curves of this flat spectrum radio quasars are highly corr…

astro-ph.HE2013

The Contrasting Nature of Gamma-Ray/Optical Variability in the Blazar PKS 0208-512 During Successive Outbursts

Ritaban Chatterjee, G. Fossati, C. M. Urry +6

The Yale/SMARTS optical-near-IR monitoring program has followed the variations in emission of the Fermi-LAT monitored blazars in the southern sky with closely spaced observations s…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 55 cited

An Optical-Near-Infrared Outburst with No Accompanying Gamma-Rays in the Blazar PKS 0208-512

Ritaban Chatterjee, G. Fossati, C. M. Urry +6

We report the discovery of an anomalous flare in a bright blazar, namely, PKS 0208-512, one of the targets of the Yale/SMARTS optical-near-infrared (OIR) monitoring program of Ferm…

astro-ph.HE2012★ 35 cited

Time-dependent simulations of emission from FSRQ PKS1510-089: multiwavelength variability of external Compton and SSC models

Xuhui Chen, Giovanni Fossati, Edison Liang +1

[abridged] We present results of modeling the SED and multiwavelength variability of the bright FSRQ PKS1510-089 with our time-dependent multizone Monte Carlo/Fokker-Planck code (C…