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2014

The RoboPol Pipeline and Control System - MNRAS, 442, 1706 (2014) O. G. King, D. Blinov, A. N. Ramaprakash, I. Myserlis, E. Angelakis, M. Baloković, R. Feiler, L. Fuhrmann, T. Hovatta, P. Khodade, A. Kougentakis, N. Kylafis, A. Kus, E. Paleologou, G. Panopoulou, I. Papadakis, I. Papamastorakis, G. Paterakis, V. Pavlidou, B. Pazderska, E. Pazderski, T. J. Pearson, C. Rajarshi, A. C. S. Readhead, P. Reig, R. Rouneq, A. Steiakaki, K. Tassis, J. A. Zensus

The RoboPol optical polarization survey of gamma-ray - loud blazars - MNRAS, 442, 1693 (2014) V. Pavlidou, E. Angelakis, I. Myserlis, D. Blinov, O.G. King, I. Papadakis, K. Tassis, T. Hovatta, B. Pazderska, E. Paleologou, M. Baloković, R. Feiler, L. Fuhrmann, P. Khodade, A. Kus, N. Kylafis, D. Modi, G. Panopoulou, I. Papamastorakis, E. Pazderski, T.J. Pearson, C. Rajarshi, A. Ramaprakash, P. Reig, A.C.S. Readhead, A. Steiakaki, J.A. Zensus

Early-time polarized optical light curve of GRB 131030A - MNRAS, 445, L114 (2014) O.G. King, D. Blinov, D. Giannios, I. Papadakis, E. Angelakis, M. Balokovic, L. Fuhrmann, T. Hovatta, P. Khodade, S. Kiehlmann, N. Kylafis, A. Kus, I. Myserlis, D. Modi, G. Panopoulou, I. Papamastorakis, V. Pavlidou, B. Pazderska, E. Pazderski, T. J. Pearson, C. Rajarshi, A. N. Ramaprakash, A. C. S. Readhead, P. Reig, K. Tassis, J. A. Zensus

The high optical polarization in the Be/X-ray binary EXO 2030+375 - MNRAS, 445, 4235 (2014) P. Reig, D. Blinov, I. Papadakis, N. Kylafis, K. Tassis

2015

Optical polarization map of the Polaris Flare with RoboPol - MNRAS, 452, 715 (2015), see also MNRAS, 462, 2011 (2016) G.V. Panopoulou, K. Tassis, D. Blinov, V. Pavlidou, O. G. King, E. Paleologou, A. Ramaprakash, E. Angelakis, M. Balokovic, H. K. Das, R. Feiler, T. Hovatta, P. Khodade, S. Kiehlmann, A. Kus, N. Kylafis, I. Liodakis, D. Modi, I. Myserlis, I. Papadakis, I. Papamastorakis, B. Pazderska, E. Pazderski, T.J. Pearson, C. Rajarshi, A.C.S. Readhead, P. Reig, J.A. Zensus

RoboPol: First season rotations of optical polarization plane in blazars - MNRAS, 453, 1669 (2015) D. Blinov, V. Pavlidou, I. Papadakis, S. Kiehlmann, G. Panopoulou, I. Liodakis, O. G. King, E. Angelakis, M. Baloković, H. Das, R. Feiler, L. Fuhrmann, T. Hovatta, P. Khodade, A. Kus, N. Kylafis, I. Myserlis, D. Modi, B. Pazderska, E. Pazderski, I. Papamastorakis, T. J. Pearson, C. Rajarshi, A. Ramaprakash, P. Reig, A. C. S. Readhead, K. Tassis, J. A. Zensus

2016

RoboPol: optical polarization-plane rotations and flaring activity in blazars - MNRAS, 457, 2252 (2016) D. Blinov, V. Pavlidou, I. E. Papadakis, T. Hovatta, T. J. Pearson, I. Liodakis, G. V. Panopoulou, E. Angelakis, M. Baloković, H. Das, P. Khodade, S. Kiehlmann, O. G. King, A. Kus, N. Kylafis, A. Mahabal, A. Marecki, D. Modi, I. Myserlis, E. Paleologou, I. Papamastorakis, B. Pazderska, E. Pazderski, C. Rajarshi, A. Ramaprakash, A. C. S. Readhead, P. Reig, K. Tassis, J. A. Zensus

The magnetic field and dust filaments in the Polaris Flare - MNRAS, 462, 1517 (2016) G. V. Panopoulou, I. Psaradaki, K. Tassis

RoboPol: Do optical polarization rotations occur in all blazars? - MNRAS, 462, 1775 (2016) D. Blinov, V. Pavlidou, I. Papadakis, S. Kiehlmann, I. Liodakis, G. V. Panopoulou, T. J. Pearson, E. Angelakis, M. Baloković, T. Hovatta, V. Joshi, O. G. King, A. Kus, N. Kylafis, A. Mahabal, A. Marecki, I. Myserlis, E. Paleologou, I. Papamastorakis, E. Pazderski, S. Prabhudesai, A. Ramaprakash, A. C. S. Readhead, P. Reig, K. Tassis, J. A. Zensus

Optical polarization of high-energy BL Lac objects - A&A, 596, A78 (2016) T. Hovatta, E. Lindfors, D. Blinov, V. Pavlidou, K. Nilsson, S. Kiehlmann, E. Angelakis, V. Fallah Ramazani, I. Liodakis, I. Myserlis, G. V. Panopoulou, T. Pursimo

RoboPol: The optical polarization of gamma-ray--loud and gamma-ray--quiet blazars - MNRAS, 463, 3365 (2016) E. Angelakis, T. Hovatta, D. Blinov, V. Pavlidou, S. Kiehlmann, I. Myserlis, M. Boettcher, P. Mao, G. V. Panopoulou, I. Liodakis, O. G. King, M. Balokovic, A. Kus, N. Kylafis, A. Mahabal, A. Marecki, E. Paleologou, I. Papadakis, I. Papamastorakis, E. Pazderski, T. J. Pearson, S. Prabhudesai, A. N. Ramaprakash, A. C. S. Readhead, P. Reig, K. Tassis, M. Urry, J. A. Zensus

2017

Optical linear polarization of 74 white dwarfs with the RoboPol polarimeter - MNRAS, 464, 1294 (2017) M. Żejmo, A. Słowikowska, K. Krzeszowski, P. Reig, D. Blinov

The optical counterpart to the Be/X-ray binary SAX J2239.3+6116 - A&A, 598, 16 (2017) P. Reig, P. Blay, D. Blinov

Estimating the distribution of rest-frame time-scales for blazar jets: a statistical approach - MNRAS, 465, 4783 (2017) I. Liodakis, D. Blinov, I. Papadakis, V. Pavlidou

Synchrotron emission from the blazar PG 1553+113. An analysis of its flux and polarization variability - MNRAS, 466, 3762 (2017) C. M. Raiteri, F. Nicastro, A. Stamerra, M. Villata, V. M. Larionov, D. Blinov, J. A. Acosta-Pulido, M. J. Arévalo, A. A. Arkharov, R. Bachev, G. A. Borman, M. I. Carnerero, D. Carosati, M. Cecconi, W.-P. Chen, G. Damljanovic, A. Di Paola, Sh. A. Ehgamberdiev, A. Frasca, M. Giroletti, P. A. González-Morales, A. B. Griñon-Marín, T. S. Grishina, P.-C. Huang, S. Ibryamov, S. A. Klimanov, E. N. Kopatskaya, O. M. Kurtanidze, S. O. Kurtanidze, A. Lähteenmäki, E. G. Larionova, L. V. Larionova, C. Lázaro, G. Leto, I. Liodakis, C. Martínez-Lombilla, B. Mihov, D. O. Mirzaqulov, A. A. Mokrushina, J. W. Moody, D. A. Morozova, S. V. Nazarov, M. G. Nikolashvili, J. M. Ohlert, G. V. Panopoulou, A. Pastor Yabar, F. Pinna, C. Protasio, N. Rizzi, A. C. Sadun, S. S. Savchenko, E. Semkov, L. A. Sigua, L. Slavcheva-Mihova, A. Strigachev, M. Tornikoski, Yu. V. Troitskaya, I. S. Troitsky, A. A. Vasilyev, R. J. C.Vera, O. Vince,  R.Yu. V Zanmar Sanchez

Optical EVPA rotations in blazars: testing a stochastic variability model with RoboPol data - MNRAS, 472, 3589 (2017) S. Kiehlmann, D. Blinov, T. J. Pearson, I. Liodakis

Optical polarization variations in the blazar PKS 1749+096 - PASJ, 69, 96 (2017) M. Uemura, R. Itoh, I. Liodakis, D. Blinov, M. Nakayama, L. Xu, N. Sawada, H.-Y. Wu, I. Fujishiro

2018

RoboPol: Connection between optical polarization plane rotations and gamma-ray flares in blazars - MNRAS, 474, 1296 (2018) D. Blinov, V. Pavlidou, I. Papadakis, S. Kiehlmann, I. Liodakis, G. V. Panopoulou, E. Angelakis, M. Baloković, T. Hovatta, O. G. King, A. Kus, N. Kylafis, A. Mahabal, S. Maharana, I. Myserlis, E. Paleologou, I. Papamastorakis, E. Pazderski, T. J. Pearson, A. Ramaprakash, A. C. S. Readhead, P. Reig, K. Tassis, J. A. Zensus

Local Measurements of the Mean Interstellar Polarization at High Galactic Latitudes - A&A, 616, A52 (2018) R. Skalidis, G. V. Panopoulou, K. Tassis, V. Pavlidou, D. Blinov, I. Komis, I. Liodakis

Optical polarisation variability of radio loud narrow line Seyfert 1 galaxies. Search for long rotations of the polarisation plane - A&A, 618, A92 (2018) E. Angelakis, S. Kiehlmann, I. Myserlis, D. Blinov, J. Eggen, R. Itoh, N. Marchili, J. A. Zensus

Optical linear polarization of helium rich white dwarfs sample with the RoboPol polarimeter - MNRAS, 479, 5312 (2018) Słowikowska A., Krzeszowski K., Żejmo M., Blinov D., Reig P.

Warped disks during type II outbursts in Be/X-ray binaries: evidence from optical polarimetry - A&A, 619, A19 (2018) P. Reig & D. Blinov

2019

Demonstration of magnetic field tomography with starlight polarization towards a diffuse sightline of the ISM - ApJ, 872, 56 (2019) Georgia V. Panopoulou, Konstantinos Tassis, Raphael Skalidis, Dmitriy Blinov, Ioannis Liodakis, Vasiliki Pavlidou, Stephen B. Potter, Anamparambu N. Ramaprakash, Anthony C. S. Readhead, Ingunn K. Wehus

Search for AGN counterparts of unidentified Fermi-LAT sources with optical polarimetry: Demonstration of the technique - A&A, 623, A61 (2019) N. Mandarakas, D. Blinov, I. Liodakis, K. Kouroumpatzakis, A. Zezas, G. V. Panopoulou, I. Myserlis, E. Angelakis, T. Hovatta, S. Kiehlmann, K. Kokolakis, E. Paleologou, A. Pouliasi, R. Skalidis, V. Pavlidou

RoboPol: A four-channel optical imaging polarimeter - MNRAS, 485, 2355 (2019) A. N. Ramaprakash, C. V. Rajarshi, H. K. Das, P. Khodade, D. Modi, G. Panopoulou, S. Maharana, D. Blinov, E. Angelakis, C. Casadio, L. Fuhrmann, T. Hovatta, S. Kiehlmann, O. G. King, N. Kylafis, A. Kougentakis, A. Kus, A. Mahabal, A. Marecki, I. Myserlis, G. Paterakis, E. Paleologou, I. Liodakis, I. Papadakis, I. Papamastorakis, V. Pavlidou, E. Pazderski, T. J. Pearson, A. C. S. Readhead, P. Reig, A. Slowikowska, K. Tassis, J. A. Zensus

Extreme Starlight Polarization in a Region with Highly Polarized Dust Emission - A&A, 624, L8 (2019) G. V. Panopoulou, B. S. Hensley, R. Skalidis, D. Blinov, K. Tassis

Probing the unidentified Fermi blazar-like population using optical polarization and machine learning - MNRAS, 486, 3415 (2019) I. Liodakis & D. Blinov

Prospects for Detecting X-ray Polarization in Blazar Jets - ApJ, 880, 7 (2019) I. Liodakis,  A. L. Peirson & R. W. Romani

The RoboPol Program: Optical Polarimetric Monitoring of Blazars - Galaxies, 7(2), 46 (2019) Dmitry Blinov & Vasiliki Pavlidou

2020

Eliminating artefacts in Polarimetric Images using Deep Learning - MNRAS, 491, 5151 (2020) D. Paranjpye, A. Mahabal, A. N. Ramaprakash, G. V. Panopoulou, K. Cleary, A. C. S. Readhead, D. Blinov, K. Tassis

Optical polarization properties of AGN with significant VLBI-Gaia offsets - MNRAS, 493, L54 (2020) Y. Y. Kovalev, D. I. Zobnina, A. V. Plavin, D. Blinov

Global alignments of parsec-scale AGN radio jets and their polarization planes - A&A, 635, A102 (2020) D. Blinov, C. Casadio, N. Mandarakas, E. Angelakis

Two Flares with One Shock: the Interesting Case of 3C 454.3 - ApJ, 902, 11 (2020) I. Liodakis, D. Blinov, S. G. Jorstad, A. A. Arkharov, A. Di Paola, N. V. Efimova, T. S. Grishina, S. Kiehlmann, E. N. Kopatskaya, V. M. Larionov, L. V. Larionova, E. G. Larionova, A. P. Marscher, D. A. Morozova, A. A. Nikiforova, V. Pavlidou, E. Traianou, Yu. V. Troitskaya, I. S. Troitsky, M. Uemura, Z. R. Weaver

2021

RoboPol: AGN polarimetric monitoring data - MNRAS, 501, 3715 (2021) D. Blinov, S. Kiehlmann, V. Pavlidou, G. V. Panopoulou, R. Skalidis, E. Angelakis, C. Casadio, E. N. Einoder, T. Hovatta, K. Kokolakis, A. Kougentakis, A. Kus, N. Kylafis, E. Kyritsis, A. Lalakos, I. Liodakis, S. Maharana, E. Makrydopoulou, N. Mandarakas, G. M. Maragkakis, I. Myserlis, I. Papadakis, G. Paterakis, T. J. Pearson, A. N. Ramaprakash, A. C. S. Readhead, P. Reig, A. Słowikowska, K. Tassis, K. Xexakis, M. Żejmo, J. A. Zensus

The distribution of rotation speeds in optical polarization position angle rotations in blazars - MNRAS, 507, 225 (2021) S. Kiehlmann, D. Blinov, I. Liodakis, V. Pavlidou, A. C. S. Readhead, E. Angelakis, C. Casadio, T. Hovatta, N. Kylafis, A. Mahabal, N. Mandarakas, I. Myserlis, G. V. Panopoulou, T. J. Pearson, A. Ramaprakash, P. Reig, R. Skalidis, A. Slowikowska, K. Tassis, J. A. Zensus

2022

Polarized X-rays Constrain The Disk-Jet Geometry in a Black Hole X-ray Binary - Science, 378, 6620, 650 Krawczynski H., Muleri F., Dovčiak M., Veledina A., Rodriguez Cavero N., Svoboda J., Ingram A., Matt G., Garcia J.A., Loktev V., Negro M., Poutanen J., Kitaguchi T., Podgorný J., Rankin J., Zhang W., Berdyugin A., Berdyugina S.V., Bianchi S., Blinov D., Capitanio F., Di Lalla N., Draghis P., Fabiani S., Kagitani M., Kravtsov V., Kiehlmann S., Latronico L., Lutovinov A.A., Mandarakas N., Marin F., Marinucci A., Miller J., Mizuno T., Molkov S.V., Omodei N., Petrucci P.-O., Ratheesh A., Sakanoi T., Semena A.N., Skalidis R., Soffitta P., Tennant A.F., Thalhammer P., Tombesi F., Weisskopf M.C., Wilms J., Zhang S., Agudo I., Antonelli L.A., Bachetti M., Baldini L., Baumgartner W.H., Bellazzini R., Bongiorno S.D., Bonino R., Brez A., Bucciantini N., Castellano S., Cavazzuti E., Ciprini S., Costa E., De Rosa A., Del Monte E., Di Gesu L., Di Marco A., Donnarumma I., Doroshenko V., Ehlert S.R., Enoto T., Evangelista Y., Ferrazzoli R., Gunji S., Hayashida K., Heyl J., Iwakiri W., Jorstad S.G., Karas V., Kolodziejczak J.J., La Monaca F., Liodakis I., Maldera S., Manfreda A., Marscher A.P., Marshall H.L., Massaro F., Mitsuishi I., Ng C.-Y., O'Dell S.L., Oppedisano C., Papitto A., Pavlov G.G., Peirson A.L., Perri M., Pesce-Rollins M., Pilia M., Possenti A., Puccetti S., Ramsey B.D., Romani R.W., Sgrò C., Slane P., Spandre G., Tamagawa T., Tavecchio F., Taverna R., Tawara Y., Thomas N.E., Trois A., Tsygankov S., Turolla R., Vink J., Wu K., Xie F. and Zane S.

HI-H2 transition: Exploring the role of the magnetic field. A case study toward the Ursa Major cirrus - A&A, 665, A77 Skalidis R., Tassis K., Panopoulou G. V., Pineda J. L., Gong Y., Mandarakas N., Blinov D., Kiehlmann S., Kypriotakis J. A.

2023

Long-term optical variability of the Be/X-ray binary GRO J2058+42 - A&A, 671, A48 P. Reig, A. Tzouvanou, D. Blinov, V. Pantoulas

Optical polarization from colliding stellar stream shocks in a tidal disruption event - Science, 380, 6645, 656 Liodakis I., Koljonen K. I. I., Blinov D., Lindfors E., Alexander K. D., Hovatta T., Berton M., Hajela A., Jormanainen J., Kouroumpatzakis K., Mandarakas N., Nilsson K.

GRB 210619B optical afterglow polarization - A&A, 670, A144 N. Mandarakas, D. Blinov, D. R. Aguilera-Dena, S. Romanopoulos, V. Pavlidou, K. Tassis, J. Antoniadis, S. Kiehlmann, A. Lychoudis, L. F. Tsemperof Kataivatis

X-Ray Polarization Observations of BL Lacertae - ApJL, 942, 1, L10 Middei R., Liodakis I., Perri M., Puccetti S., Cavazzuti E., Di Gesu L., Ehlert S. R., Madejski G., Marscher A. P., Marshall H. L., Muleri F., Negro M., Jorstad S. G., Agís-González B., Agudo I., Bonnoli G., Bernardos M. I., Casanova V., García-Comas M., Husillos C., Marchini A., Sota A., Kouch P. M., Lindfors E., Borman G. A., Kopatskaya E. N., Larionova E. G., Morozova D. A., Savchenko S. S., Vasilyev A. A., Zhovtan A. V., Casadio C., Escudero J., Myserlis I., Hales A., Kameno S., Kneissl R., Messias H., Nagai H., Blinov D., Bourbah I. G., Kiehlmann S., Kontopodis E., Mandarakas N., Romanopoulos S., Skalidis R., Vervelaki A., Masiero J. R., Mawet D., Millar-Blanchaer M. A., Panopoulou G. V., Tinyanont S., Berdyugin A. V., Kagitani M., Kravtsov V., Sakanoi T., Imazawa R., Sasada M., Fukazawa Y., Kawabata K. S., Uemura M., Mizuno T., Nakaoka T., Akitaya H., Gurwell M., Rao R., Di Lalla N., Cibrario N., Donnarumma I., Kim D. E., Omodei N., Pacciani L., Poutanen J., Tavecchio F., Antonelli L. A., Bachetti M., Baldini L., Baumgartner W. H., Bellazzini R., Bianchi S., Bongiorno S. D., Bonino R., Brez A., Bucciantini N., Capitanio F., Castellano S., Ciprini S., Costa E., De Rosa A., Del Monte E., Di Marco A., Doroshenko V., Dovčiak M., Enoto T., Evangelista Y., Fabiani S., Ferrazzoli R., Garcia J. A., Gunji S., Hayashida K., Heyl J., Iwakiri W., Karas V., Kitaguchi T., Kolodziejczak J. J., Krawczynski H., La Monaca F., Latronico L., Maldera S., Manfreda A., Marin F., Marinucci A., Massaro F., Matt G., Mitsuishi I., Ng C.-Y., O'Dell S. L., Oppedisano C., Papitto A., Pavlov G. G., Peirson A. L., Pesce-Rollins M., Petrucci P.-O., Pilia M., Possenti A., Ramsey B. D., Rankin J., Ratheesh A., Romani R. W., Sgró C., Slane P., Soffitta P., Spandre G., Tamagawa T., Taverna R., Tawara Y., Tennant A. F., Thomas N. E., Tombesi F., Trois A., Tsygankov S., Turolla R., Vink J., Weisskopf M. C., Wu K., Xie F., Zane S.

Polarimetry of the potential binary supermassive black hole system in J1430+2303 - A&A, 673, A126 F. Marin, D. Hutsemékers, I. Liodakis, R. Antonucci, N. Mandarakas, E. Lindfors, D. Blinov, T. Barnouin, and D. Savić

CO enhancement by magnetohydrodynamic waves. Striations in the Polaris Flare - A&A, 673, A76 R. Skalidis, K. Gkimisi, K. Tassis, G. V. Panopoulou, V. Pelgrims, A. Tritsis, P. F. Goldsmith

Bright-Moon Sky as a Wide-Field Linear Polarimetric Flat Source for Calibration - A&A, 679, A68 S. Maharana, S. Kiehlmann, D. Blinov, V. Pelgrims, V. Pavlidou, K. Tassis, J. A. Kypriotakis, A. N. Ramaprakash, R. M. Anche, A. Basyrov, K. Deka, H. K. Eriksen, T. Ghosh, E. Gjerløw, N. Mandarakas, E. Ntormousi, G. V. Panopoulou, A. Papadaki, T. Pearson, S. B. Potter, A. C. S. Readhead, R. Skalidis, and I. K. Wehus

Discovery of X-ray polarization angle rotation in active galaxy Mrk 421 - Nature Astronomy, 7, 1245 L. Di Gesu, H. L. Marshall, S. R. Ehlert, D. E. Kim, I. Donnarumma, F. Tavecchio, I. Liodakis, S. Kiehlmann et al.

The RoboPol sample of optical polarimetric standards - A&A, 677, A144 D. Blinov, S. Maharana, F. Bouzelou, C. Casadio, E. Gjerløw, J. Jormanainen, S. Kiehlmann, J. A. Kypriotakis, I. Liodakis, N. Mandarakas, L. Markopoulioti, G. V. Panopoulou, V. Pelgrims, A. Pouliasi, S. Romanopoulos, R. Skalidis, R. M. Anche, E. Angelakis, J. Antoniadis, B. J. Medhi, T. Hovatta, A. Kus, N. Kylafis, A. Mahabal, I. Myserlis, E. Paleologou, I. Papadakis, V. Pavlidou, I. Papamastorakis, T. J. Pearson, S. B. Potter, A. N. Ramaprakash, A. C. S. Readhead, P. Reig, A. Słowikowska, K. Tassis, J. A. Zensus

Extreme photometric and polarimetric variability of blazar S4 0954+65 at its maximum optical and γ-ray brightness levels - MNRAS, 526, 4502 C. M. Raiteri, M. Villata, M. I. Carnerero, S. S. Savchenko, S. O. Kurtanidze, V. V. Vlasyuk, A. Marchini, K. Matsumoto, C. Lorey, M. D. Joner, K. Gazeas, D. Carosati, D. O. Mirzaqulov, J. A. Acosta Pulido, I. Agudo, R. Bachev, E. Benítez, G. A. Borman, P. Calcidese, W. P. Chen, G. Damljanovic, S. A. Ehgamberdiev, D. Elsässer, M. Feige, A. Frasca, H. Gaur, T. S. Grishina, A. C. Gupta, D. Hiriart, M. Holland, B. Horst, S. Ibryamov, R. Z. Ivanidze, J. Jensen, V. Jithesh, M. D. Jovanovic, S. Kiehlmann, G. N. Kimeridze, S. Kishore, E. N. Kopatskaya, O. M. Kurtanidze, E. G. Larionova, H. C. Lin, K. Mannheim, C. Marinelli, J. Moreira Reyes, D. A. Morozova, M. G. Nikolashvili, D. Reinhart, F. D. Romanov, E. Semkov, J. Seufert, E. V. Shishkina, L. A. Sigua, R. Skalidis, O. I. Spiridonova, M. Stojanovic, A. Strigachev, Y. V. Troitskaya, I. S. Troitskiy, A. Tsai, A. A. Vasilyev, O. Vince, K. Vrontaki, K. Wani, D. Watts, A. V. Zhovtan

2024

Zero-polarization candidate regions for calibration of wide-field optical polarimeters - A&A, 684, A132 (2024) N. Mandarakas, G. V. Panopoulou, V. Pelgrims, S. B. Potter, V. Pavlidou, A. Ramaprakash, K. Tassis, D. Blinov, S. Kiehlmann, E. Koutsiona, S. Maharana, S. Romanopoulos, R. Skalidis, A. Vervelaki, S. E. Clark, J. A. Kypriotakis, A. C. S. Readhead

Polarization of active galactic nuclei with significant VLBI-Gaia displacements  - arXiv:2409.12226 D. Blinov & A. Arshinova

 

ATels and other publications

2013

GRB 131030A - RoboPol optical afterglow polarimetry - GCN Circ #15430 The RoboPol collaboration

Optical and gamma-ray brightening of blazar OC 457 - ATel #4779 D. Blinov, (St. Petersburg Univ.), I. Myserlis, E. Angelakis (MPIfR), O. King (Caltech), V. Pavlidou (Univ. of Crete) for the RoboPol Collaboration

Increased activity of the blazar S5 1044+71 with ongoing rotation of optical polarization angle - ATel #5512 D. Blinov (Univ. of Crete, Greece and St. Petersburg Univ., Russia), A. Kougentakis (FORTH, Greece) on behalf of RoboPol collaboration.

2014

The RoboPol project: optical polarisation monitoring of an unbiased subset of gamma-ray-loud blazars E. Angelakis (MPIfR) for the RoboPol Collaboration

Ongoing rotation of the optical polarization angle for the blazar GB6J1037+5711 - ATel #6261 I. Myserlis (MPIfR, Germany), I. Liodakis, G. Panopoulou (Univ. of Crete, Greece) on behalf of the RoboPol collaboration

Ongoing rotation of the optical polarization plane for the blazar S4 1749+70 - ATel #6351 I. Liodakis (Univ. of Crete, Greece) on behalf of the RoboPol collaboration

Rotation of the optical polarization plane for the blazar OT 081 - ATel #6396 G. Panopoulou (Univ. of Crete, Greece) on behalf of the RoboPol collaboration

Optical flare of the TeV blazar 1ES 0647+250 - ATel #6726 S. Kiehlmann (MPIfR) on behalf of the RoboPol collaboration, E. Lindfors (Univ. of Turku), V. Larionov (St. Petersburg Univ.)

2015

Optical polarization of V404 Cyg - ATel #7674 G. Panopoulou (Univ. of Crete), P. Reig (Univ. of Crete/FORTH), D. Blinov (Univ. of Crete/St. Petersburg Univ.) on behalf of the RoboPol collaboration

Ongoing rotations of optical polarization plane in two blazars - ATel #7865 D. Blinov (Univ. of Crete/St. Petersburg Univ.), E. N. Einoder (Caltech), K. Kokolakis, I. Liodakis, E. Makrydopoulou, G. V. Panopoulou (Univ. of Crete) on behalf of the RoboPol collaboration

Rotation of the optical polarization plane for the blazar OT 081 - ATel #7872 D. Blinov (Univ. of Crete/St. Petersburg Univ.), E. N. Einoder (Caltech), K. Kokolakis, I. Liodakis, E. Makrydopoulou, G. V. Panopoulou (Univ. of Crete) on behalf of the RoboPol collaboration

Rotation of the optical polarization plane for the blazar OC 457 - ATel #8254 I. Liodakis (Univ. of Crete), T.Hovatta (Aalto U.) , G. V. Panopoulou (Univ. of Crete)

2016

Rotation of the optical polarization plane for the blazar 4C +38.41 - ATel #9331 G. V. Panopoulou, G. M. Maragkakis, K. Xexakis (Univ. of Crete, Greece) on behalf of the RoboPol collaboration

Ongoing rotation of the optical polarization plane for the blazar PKS 1510-089 - ATel #9402 D. Blinov, I. Kyritsis, A. Lalakos (Univ. of Crete, Greece) on behalf of the RoboPol collaboration

Optical polarization plane rotation for the blazar PG 1553+113 - ATel #9458 D. Blinov (Univ. of Crete, Greece, St. Petersburg Univ., Russia), C. Casadio (MPIfR, Germany) on behalf of the RoboPol collaboration

2017

The dependence of optical polarisation of blazars on the synchrotron component peak frequency - 7th Fermi Symposium E. Angelakis, D. Blinov, M. Böttcher, T. Hovatta, S. Kiehlmann, I. Myserlis, V. Pavlidou, J. A. Zensus

2020

Optical polarization of AT2019wey - ATel #14000 F. Bouzelou(Univ. of Crete, Greece), S. Kiehlmann (IA FORTH & Univ. of Crete, Greece), L. Markopoulioti (Univ. of Crete, Greece)

 

Other authors publications based on our data

 

The transience and persistence of high optical polarisation state in beamed radio quasars - PASA, 40, e006 (2023)  Chand K., Gopal-Krishna A., Omar A., Chand H., Bisht P. S.