Assigning Degrees of Stochasticity to Blazar Light Curves in the Radio Band Using Complex Networks by Belén Acosta-Tripailao, Walter Max-Moerbeck, Denisse Pastén, Pablo S. Moya

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The Unique Blazar OJ 287 and Its Massive Binary Black Hole Central Engine by Lankeswar Dey, Achamveedu Gopakumar, Mauri Valtonen, Stanislaw Zola, Abhimanyu Susobhanan, Rene Hudec, Pauli Pihajoki, Tapio Pursimo, Andrei Berdyugin, Vilppu Piirola, Stefano Ciprini, Kari Nilsson, Helen Jermak, Mark Kidger, Stefanie Komossa

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Study of the Time-Series of Microvariability in Kepler Blazar W2R 1926+42 by Mahito Sasada, Shin Mineshige, Shinya Yamada, Hitoshi Negoro

“…One of the remarkable features of blazars is violent variability over a wide wavelength range. …”
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Blazar Jets as Possible Sources of Ultra-High Energy Photons: A Short Review by Gopal Bhatta

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Multiwavelength Analysis of the IceCube Neutrino Source Candidate Blazar PKS 1424+240 by Emma Kun, Attila Medveczky

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The feasibility of magnetic reconnection powered blazar flares from synchrotron self-Compton emission by Morris, P, Potter, W, Cotter, G

<i><b>NuSTAR</b></i> View of TeV Blazar Mrk 501 by Ashwani Pandey

“…We report the results of flux and spectral variability studies of all seven <i>Nuclear Spectroscopic Telescope Array (NuSTAR)</i> observations of TeV <inline-formula><math display="inline"><semantics><mrow><mi>γ</mi><mo>-</mo></mrow></semantics></math></inline-formula>ray emitting blazar Markarian (or Mrk) 501. We found strong evidence of intraday variability in 3–79 keV X-ray light curves (LCs) of Mrk 501 during four out of these seven observations. …”
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IXPE and Multiwavelength Observations of Blazar PG 1553+113 Reveal an Orphan Optical Polarization Swing by Riccardo Middei, Matteo Perri, Simonetta Puccetti, Ioannis Liodakis, Laura Di Gesu, Alan P. Marscher, Nicole Rodriguez Cavero, Fabrizio Tavecchio, Immacolata Donnarumma, Marco Laurenti, Svetlana G. Jorstad, Iván Agudo, Herman L. Marshall, Luigi Pacciani, Dawoon E. Kim, Francisco José Aceituno, Giacomo Bonnoli, Víctor Casanova, Beatriz Agís-González, Alfredo Sota, Carolina Casadio, Juan Escudero, Ioannis Myserlis, Albrecht Sievers, Pouya M. Kouch, Elina Lindfors, Mark Gurwell, Garrett K. Keating, Ramprasad Rao, Sincheol Kang, Sang-Sung Lee, Sang-Hyun Kim, Whee Yeon Cheong, Hyeon-Woo Jeong, Emmanouil Angelakis, Alexander Kraus, Lucio A. Antonelli, Matteo Bachetti, Luca Baldini, Wayne H. Baumgartner, Ronaldo Bellazzini, Stefano Bianchi, Stephen D. Bongiorno, Raffaella Bonino, Alessandro Brez, Niccolò Bucciantini, Fiamma Capitanio, Simone Castellano, Elisabetta Cavazzuti, Chien-Ting Chen, Stefano Ciprini, Enrico Costa, Alessandra De Rosa, Ettore Del Monte, Niccolò Di Lalla, Alessandro Di Marco, Victor Doroshenko, Michal Dovčiak, Steven R. Ehlert, Teruaki Enoto, Yuri Evangelista, Sergio Fabiani, Riccardo Ferrazzoli, Javier A. García, Shuichi Gunji, Kiyoshi Hayashida, Jeremy Heyl, Wataru Iwakiri, Philip Kaaret, Vladimir Karas, Fabian Kislat, Takao Kitaguchi, Jeffery J. Kolodziejczak, Henric Krawczynski, Fabio La Monaca, Luca Latronico, Simone Maldera, Alberto Manfreda, Frédéric Marin, Andrea Marinucci, Francesco Massaro, Giorgio Matt, Ikuyuki Mitsuishi, Tsunefumi Mizuno, Fabio Muleri, Michela Negro, Chi-Yung Ng, Stephen L. O’Dell, Nicola Omodei, Chiara Oppedisano, Alessandro Papitto, George G. Pavlov, Abel L. Peirson, Melissa Pesce-Rollins, Pierre-Olivier Petrucci, Maura Pilia, Andrea Possenti, Juri Poutanen, Brian D. Ramsey, John Rankin, Ajay Ratheesh, Oliver J. Roberts, Roger W. Romani, Carmelo Sgrò, Patrick Slane, Paolo Soffitta, Gloria Spandre, Douglas A. Swartz, Toru Tamagawa, Roberto Taverna, Yuzuru Tawara, Allyn F. Tennant, Nicholas E. Thomas, Francesco Tombesi, Alessio Trois, Sergey S. Tsygankov, Roberto Turolla, Jacco Vink, Martin C. Weisskopf, Kinwah Wu, Fei Xie, Silvia Zane

“…The lower-energy peak of the spectral energy distribution of blazars has commonly been ascribed to synchrotron radiation from relativistic particles in the jets. …”
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Bjet_MCMC: A New Tool to Automatically Fit the Broadband Spectral Energy Distributions of Blazars by Olivier Hervet, Caitlin A. Johnson, Adrian Youngquist

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Long-Term Monitoring of Bright Blazars in the Multi-GeV to TeV Range with FACT by Fabian Temme, Jan Adam, Max L. Ahnen, Dominik Baack, Matteo Balbo, Matthias Bergmann, Adrian Biland, Michael Blank, Thomas Bretz, Kai A. Brügge, Jens Buss, Anton Dmytriiev, Daniela Dorner, Sabrina Einecke, Christina Hempfling, Dorothee Hildebrand, Gareth Hughes, Lena Linhoff, Karl Mannheim, Sebastian Müller, Dominik Neise, Andrii Neronov, Max Nöthe, Aleksander Paravac, Felicitas Pauss, Wolfgang Rhode, Amit Shukla, Julia Thaele, Roland Walter

“…Blazars like Markarian 421 or Markarian 501 are active galactic nuclei (AGN), with their jets orientated towards the observer. …”
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Constraints on Blazar Jet Conditions During Gamma-Ray Flaring from Radiative Transfer Modeling by Aller Margo F., Hughes Philip A., Aller Hugh D., Hovatta Talvikki

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First-principles-integrated Study of Blazar Synchrotron Radiation and Polarization Signatures from Magnetic Turbulence by Haocheng Zhang, Alan P. Marscher, Fan Guo, Dimitrios Giannios, Xiaocan Li, Michela Negro

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Jet Cloud–Star Interaction as an Interpretation of Neutrino Outburst from the Blazar TXS 0506+056 by Kai Wang, Ruo-Yu Liu, Zhuo Li, Xiang-Yu Wang, Zi-Gao Dai

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Very Long Baseline Polarimetric monitoring at 15 GHz of the TeV blazar Markarian 421 by Lico R., Casadio C., Gómez J.L., Giroletti M., Orienti M., Giovannini G., Blasi M.G., Cotton W., Edwards P. G., Fuhrmann L., Jorstad S., Kino M., Kovalev Y.Y., Krichbaum T.P., Marscher A., Paneque D., Perez-Torres M.A., Piner G., Sokolovsky K.V.

“…In this work we present recent results about the nearby (z=0.031) TeV blazar Mrk 421. We analyzed data obtained with the Very Long Baseline Array (VLBA),both in total and polarized intensity, at twelve epochs (one observation per month from January to December 2011) at 15, 24 and 43 GHz, in the context of a broadband campaign from the radio to gamma-ray. …”
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Correlation between Emission-line Luminosity and Gamma-Ray Dominance in the Blazar 3C 279 by A. Dmytriiev, M. Böttcher, T. O. Machipi

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Detection of a Peculiar Drift in the Nuclear Radio Jet of the TeV Blazar Markarian 501 by Silke Britzen, Gopal Krishna, Emma Kun, Héctor Olivares, Ilya Pashchenko, Frédéric Jaron, Josefa Becerra González, David Paneque

“…Mrk 501 is one of the most prominent TeV-emitting blazars and belongs to the class of high synchrotron peaked (HSP) blazars. …”
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Searches for IceCube neutrinos from blazar flares using correlations with gamma-ray lightcurves by Raab Christoph, Aguilar Sánchez Juan Antonio

“…Blazars have long been considered as accelerator candidates for cosmic rays. …”
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GAMMA-RAY LUMINOSITY AND PHOTON INDEX EVOLUTION OF FSRQ BLAZARS AND CONTRIBUTION TO THE GAMMA-RAY BACKGROUND by Singal, J., Petrosian, V., Ko, Allan

“…We present the redshift evolutions and distributions of the gamma-ray luminosity and photon spectral index of flat spectrum radio quasar (FSRQ) type blazars, using non-parametric methods to obtain the evolutions and distributions directly from the data. …”
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CHARACTERIZING THE OPTICAL VARIABILITY OF BRIGHT BLAZARS: VARIABILITY-BASED SELECTION OF FERMI ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI by Ruan, John J., Anderson, Scott F., MacLeod, Chelsea L., Becker, Andrew C., Burnett, T. H., Davenport, James R. A., Kochanek, Christopher S., Plotkin, Richard M., Sesar, Branimir, Stuart, J. Scott, Ivezic, Zeljko

“…We investigate the use of optical photometric variability to select and identify blazars in large-scale time-domain surveys, in part to aid in the identification of blazar counterparts to the ~30% of γ-ray sources in the Fermi 2FGL catalog still lacking reliable associations. …”
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The contribution of Fermi-2LAC blazars to diffuse TeV-PeV neutrino flux by Aartsen, M, Abraham, K, Ackermann, M, Sarkar, S, IceCube Collaboration

“…Additionally, we constrain recent models for neutrino emission by blazars.…”