Intra-night optical variability of misaligned active galaxies

The majority of the γ-ray sources detected by the Fermi Gamma-ray Space Telescope belong to the blazar class of active galactic nuclei (AGNs). In addition to blazars, a minority of non-blazar AGNs is also found to be γ-ray emitters. A class of AGNs with large jet to line-of-sight angle are termed as misaligned AGNs (MAGNs). A significant fraction of γ-ray emitting non-blazar AGNs belong to this cl...