Promise of persistent multi-messenger astronomy with the blazar OJ 287

MJ Valtonen, L Dey, A Gopakumar, S Zola, S Komossa… - Galaxies, 2021 - mdpi.com
Successful observations of the seven predicted bremsstrahlung flares from the unique bright
blazar OJ 287 firmly point to the presence of a nanohertz gravitational wave (GW) emitting …

Predicting the Next Outbursts of OJ 287 in 2006-2010

MJ Valtonen, HJ Lehto, A Sillanpää… - The Astrophysical …, 2006 - iopscience.iop.org
In its nearly regular cycle of outbursts the quasar OJ 287 is due for another outburst season
in 2006-2010. The prediction for the exact timing depends on the adopted model. In the …

Detection of a quasi-periodic oscillation in γ-ray light curve of the high-redshift blazar B2 1520+ 31

AC Gupta, A Tripathi, PJ Wiita… - Monthly Notices of …, 2019 - academic.oup.com
We detected a possible quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) of∼ 71 d in the 0.1–300 GeV γ-ray
Fermi-Large Area Telescope light curve of the high-redshift flat spectrum radio quasar B2 …

On the masses of OJ287 black holes

MJ Valtonen, S Ciprini, HJ Lehto - Monthly Notices of the Royal …, 2012 - academic.oup.com
Two multifrequency campaigns were carried out on OJ287 in 2005: in April when it was in its
pre-outburst state, and in November during the main 12 yr cycle outburst. The wavelength …

Quasi Periodic Oscillations in Blazars

AC Gupta - Journal of Astrophysics and Astronomy, 2014 - Springer
Here we report our recent discoveries of Quasi-Periodic Oscillations (QPOs) in blazars time
series data in X-ray and optical electromagnetic bands. Any such detection can give …

Optical quasi-periodic oscillations in the TESS light curves of three blazars

A Tripathi, KL Smith, PJ Wiita… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2024 - academic.oup.com
We report the time series analysis of Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite light curves of
three blazars, BL Lacertae (BL Lac), 1RXS J111741. 0+ 254858, and 1RXS J004519. 6+ …

A Possible γ-ray Quasi-periodic Oscillation of∼ 314 days in the Blazar OJ 287

P Kushwaha, A Sarkar, AC Gupta… - Monthly Notices of the …, 2020 - academic.oup.com
We report the detection of a probable γ-ray quasi-periodic oscillation (QPO) of around 314 d
in the monthly binned 0.1–300 GeV γ-ray Fermi-Large Area Telescope light curve of the well …

The 65 day period in 3C 66A during bright state

M Lainela, LO Takalo, A Sillanpää… - The Astrophysical …, 1999 - iopscience.iop.org
Historically, 3C 66A has been considered a relative quiescent blazar. For that reason, 3C
66A was selected as a comparison source for OJ 287 in the OJ-94 project. However, after …

Relativistic binary-disc dynamics and the timing of OJ-287's flares

L Zwick, L Mayer - Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical …, 2023 - academic.oup.com
We revisit the precessing black hole binary model, a candidate to explain the bizarre quasi-
periodic optical flares in OJ-287's light curve, from first principles. We deviate from existing …

Nearly periodic fluctuations in the long-term x-ray light curves of the blazars AO 0235+ 164 and 1ES 2321+ 419

B Rani, PJ Wiita, AC Gupta - The Astrophysical Journal, 2009 - iopscience.iop.org
We have performed a structure function analysis of the Rossi X-Ray Timing Explorer All-Sky
Monitor data to search for variability in 24 blazars using data trains that each exceed 12 yr …