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 years. Although 20 of them show nominal periods though this technique, the great majority of these `periods' are clearly related to yearly variations arising from the instrument.Nonetheless, an apparently real periodic component of about 17 days was detected for the blazar AO 0235+164 and it was confirmed by discrete correlation function and periodogram analyses. For 1ES 2321+419 a component of variability with a near periodicity of about 420 days was detected by all of these methods. We discuss several possible explanations for these nearly periodic components and conclude that they most likely arise from the intersections of a shock propagating down a relativistic jet that possesses a helical structure.
Detection of quasi-periodic oscillations in the 37 GHz radio light curve of the blazar Ton 599 during 1990-2020
Xinjiang Astronomical Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院新疆天文台）；Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES)（阿亚巴塔观测科学研究所）；Radio Astronomy Laboratory of Crimean Astrophysical Observatory（克里米亚天体物理台射电天文实验室）；Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA)（印度天体物理研究所）；Department of Physics, The College of New Jersey（新泽西学院物理系）；FINCA, University of Turku（图尔库大学FINCA）；Tuorla Observatory, Department of Physics and Astronomy, University of Turku（图尔库大学图奥拉天文台物理与天文学系）；Tsung-Dao Lee Institute, Shanghai Jiao Tong University（上海交通大学李政道研究所）
Variability Study and Searching for QPOs with day-like periods in the blazar S5 0716+714 with TESS
Aryabhatta Research Institute of Observational Sciences (ARIES)（阿亚巴塔观测科学研究所）；Indian Institute of Astrophysics (IIA)（印度天体物理研究所）；The College of New Jersey（新泽西学院）
Probing Extragalactic Ultralight Axion Dark Matter with Decade-Long Blazar Optical Polarimetry of 1ES 1959+650
Purple Mountain Observatory, Chinese Academy of Sciences（中国科学院紫金山天文台）；School of Astronomy and Space Sciences, University of Science and Technology of China（中国科学技术大学天文与空间科学学院）
Probing the jet base of the blazar PKS1830-211 from the chromatic variability of its lensed images. Serendipitous ALMA observations of a strong gamma-ray flare
