Evidence for Quasi-periodic Modulation in the Gamma-ray Blazar PG 1553+113

M Ackermann,M Ajello,A Albert,W B Atwood,L Baldini,J Ballet,G Barbiellini,D Bastieri,J Becerra Gonzalez,R Bellazzini,E Bissaldi,Roger D Blandford,E D Bloom,R Bonino,E Bottacini,J Bregeon,P Bruel,R Buehler,S Buson,G A Caliandro,R A Cameron,Richard K Caputo,M Caragiulo,P A Caraveo,E Cavazzuti,C Cecchi,A Chekhtman,James Chiang,G Chiaro,S Ciprini, J Cohentanugi,James M Conrad,S Cutini,Filippo Dammando,A De Angelis,F De Palma,R Desiante,L Di Venere,A Dominguez,P S Drell,C Favuzzi,S J Fegan,E C Ferrara,W B Focke,L Fuhrmann,Yasushi Fukazawa,P Fusco,F Gargano,D Gasparrini,N Giglietto,P Giommi,F Giordano,M Giroletti,G Godfrey,Douglas R Green,I A Grenier,J E Grove,S Guiriec,A K Harding,E Hays,J W Hewitt,A B Hill,D Horan,T Jogler,G Johannesson,A S Johnson,T Kamae,M Kuss, Sven G Larsson,L Latronico, Jianfeng Li,Li Li,F Longo,F Loparco,B Lott,M N Lovellette,P Lubrano,J Magill,S Maldera,A Manfreda,W Maxmoerbeck, Matthias Mayer,M N Mazziotta,J E Mcenery,P F Michelson,T Mizuno,M E Monzani,A Morselli,I V Moskalenko,S Murgia,E Nuss,M Ohno,T Ohsugi,Rohit P Ojha,N Omodei,E Orlando,J F Ormes,D Paneque,T J Pearson

mag（2015）

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We report for the first time a gamma-ray and multiwavelength nearly-periodic oscillation in an active galactic nucleus. Using the Fermi Large Area Telescope (LAT) we have discovered an apparent quasi-periodicity in the gamma-ray flux (Eu003e100 MeV) from the GeV/TeV BL Lac object PG 1553+113. The marginal significance of the 2.18 +/- 0.08 year-period gamma-ray cycle, seen in 3.5 oscillation maxima observed, is corroborated by correlated oscillations observed in radio and optical fluxes, through data collected in the OVRO, Tuorla, KAIT, and CSS monitoring programs and Swift UVOT. The optical cycle appearing in sim 10 years of data has a similar period, while the 15 GHz oscillation is less regular. Further long-term multi-wavelength monitoring of this blazar may discriminate among the possible explanations for this quasi-periodicity.

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