Optical variability of blazars

Astrophysical Journal, Supplement Series

Volumn 127, Issue 1, 2000, Pages 11-26

  Ghosh, K K ^a,b   Ramsey, B D ^a   Sadun, A C ^c   Soundararajaperumal, S ^b  

^a NASA MARSHALL SPACE FLIGHT CENTER   (United States)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: Active; Galaxies: Individual (3C 66A, PKS 0235 + 164, PKS 0528 + 134, PKS 0735 + 178, PKS 0736 + 017, PKS 0754 + 100, OJ 287, PKS 1156 + 295, 3C 273, 3C 279, PG 1418 + 546, Mrk 501, 3C 390.3, 3C 446, CTA 102); Galaxies: Photometry

Indexed keywords

EID: 0002060732     PISSN: 00670049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/313313     Document Type: Article

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