Intranight optical variability of blazars

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 348, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 176-186

  Sagar, Ram ^a   Stalin, C S ^a,b,c   Gopal Krishna, ^b   Wiita, Paul J ^d  

^a Uttar Pradesh State Observatory   (India)

^b NATIONAL CENTRE FOR RADIO ASTROPHYSICS   (India)

^c PSL Research University   (France)

^d GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: jets; Galaxies: photometry; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

FIGHTER AIRCRAFT;

ACTIVE GALACTIC NUCLEI; BLAZARS; DUTY-CYCLE; GALAXIES ACTIVE; GALAXIES JETS; GALAXIES: PHOTOMETRY; OPTICAL MONITORING; OPTICAL-; QUASARS:GENERAL; TIME-SCALES;

GALAXIES;

EID: 1142300633     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2004.07339.x     Document Type: Article

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