14 papers
Classification of blazars based on data-driven approaches
Simone Vaccaro, Maria Isabel Carnerero, Claudia M. Raiteri +5
Active galactic nuclei (AGNs), including blazars, exhibit distinctive variability in their optical light curves, making them ideal for classification studies. This work uses data f…
Detection of optical quasi-periodic oscillation in the blazar 3C 454.3
Karan Dogra, Alok C. Gupta, C. M. Raiteri +83
We analyzed 19 years of -band data of the blazar 3C 454.3 from the Whole Earth Blazar Telescope (WEBT) archive, along with new data from its members and from public archives suc…
First detection of VHE gamma-ray signal from the FSRQ TON 0599
MAGIC Collaboration, K. Abe, S. Abe +245
TON\,0599 (z=0.7247) belongs to the few flat spectrum radio quasars (FSRQs) detected in the very high energy (VHE, \,GeV) gamma-ray band. Its redshift makes it currently o…
Multiband optical variability on diverse timescales of the blazar Ton 599 from 2011 to 2023
O. Vince, C. M. Raiteri, M. Villata +72
(Shortened)Context: We analyze the optical variability of the FSRQ Ton 599 using BVRI photometry from the WEBT collaboration (2011-2023), complemented by photometric and spectrosco…
The ensemble broad-frequency power spectrum of Stripe-82 quasars from multiple surveys
Vincenzo Petrecca, Iossif E. Papadakis, Maurizio Paolillo +5
Variability is a striking features of quasars, observed at all timescales wavelengths. Studying its properties and the correlations with the physical parameters (e.g. black hole ma…
The variability of blazars throughout the electromagnetic spectrum
Claudia M. Raiteri
With their jet pointing towards us, blazars are ideal tools to study the physics and structure of extragalactic jets. Their powerful jets are cosmic particle accelerators and are a…