Probing the Jets of Blazars Using the Temporal Symmetry of Their Multi-Wavelength Outbursts

Namrata Roy, Ritaban Chatterjee, Manasvita Joshi +1

We compare the rise and decay timescales of $\sim$200 long-term ($\sim$weeks-months) GeV and R-band outbursts and $\sim$25 short-term ($\sim$hr-day) GeV flares in a sample of 10 bl…