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The common observations of multiple radio VLBI stationary knots in high-frequency-peaked BL Lacs (HBLs) can be interpreted as multiple recollimation shocks accelerating particles along jets. This approach can resolve the so-called bulk Lorentz factor crisis of sources with high Lorentz factor, deduced from maximum gamma-gamma opacity and fast variability, and apparently inconsistent slow/stationary radio knots. It also suggests that a unique pattern of the non-thermal emission variability should appear after each strong flare. Taking advantage of the 13 years of observation of the HBL Mrk 421 by the X-ray Telescope on the Neil Gehrels Swift Observatory Swift-XRT, we probe for such an intrinsic variability pattern. Its significance is then statistically estimated via comparisons with numerous similar simulated lightcurves. A suggested variability pattern is identified, consistent with a main flare emission zone located in the most upstream 15.3 GHz radio knot at 0.38 mas from the core. Subsequent flux excesses in the lightcurve are consistent with a perturbation crossing all the downstream radio knots with a constant apparent speed of 45 c. The significance of the observed variability pattern not arising from stochastic processes is found above 3 standard deviations, opening a promising path for further investigations in other blazars and with other energy bands. In addition to highlight the role of stationary radio knots as high-energy particle accelerators in jets, the developed method allows estimates of the apparent speed and size of a jet perturbation without the need to directly observe any motion in jets.
The blazar Mrk 421 shows frequent, short flares in the TeV energy regime. Due to the fast nature of such episodes, we often fail to obtain sufficient simultaneous information about flux variations in several energy bands. To overcome this lack of mul
For a sample of Swift and Fermi GRBs, we show that the minimum variability timescale and the spectral lag of the prompt emission is related to the bulk Lorentz factor in a complex manner: For small $Gamma$s, the variability timescale exhibits a shall
We present X-ray flux and spectral analyses of the three pointed Suzaku observations of the TeV high synchrotron peak blazar Mrk 421 taken throughout its complete operational duration. The observation taken on 5 May 2008 is, at 364.6 kiloseconds (i.e
We present an extensive study of 72 archival Chandra light curves of the high-frequency-peaked type blazar Mrk 421, the first strong extragalactic object to be detected at TeV energies. Between 2000 and 2015 Mrk 421 often displayed intraday variabili
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