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most citedA massive binary black-hole system in OJ287 and a test of general relativity

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astro-ph.HE2026

The October 2022 flare in OJ 287 and the mass of its primary black hole

Mauri J. Valtonen, Staszek Zola, Manpreet Singh +21

The bright blazar OJ~287 has demonstrated a sequence of flares, which are well explained by a quasi-Keplerian orbit model. The flares are associated with the impact of the secondar…

astro-ph.HE2026

Tracking down the broadband polarimetric properties of PG 1553+113

Riccardo Middei, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Alan P. Marscher +78

We report on a nine-month monitoring campaign of the blazar PG 1553+113, relying on three observations carried out in 2025 with the Imaging X-ray Polarimetry Explorer (IXPE) and su…

astro-ph.GA2026

VLTI-GRAVITY observations of blazars

Talvikki Hovatta, Elina Lindfors, Heidi Korhonen +5

Parsec-scale jets of blazars have so far been spatially resolved only in millimeter and submillimeter wavelengths, where very long baseline interferometry can be used to obtain mil…

astro-ph.HE2026★ 2 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2025★ 3 cited

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…

astro-ph.HE2025

Detection of Compton scattering in the jet of 3C 84

Ioannis Liodakis, Sudip Chakraborty, Frédéric Marin +77

3C 84 is the brightest cluster galaxy in the Perseus Cluster. It is among the closest radio-loud active galaxies and among the very few that can be detected from low frequency radi…