The multiple timescales of optical variability of the blazar 3C 279 during the 2001-2002 outburst

Astronomical Journal

Volumn 133, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 2866-2882

  Kartaltepe, Jeyhan S ^a,b   Balonek, Thomas J ^a  

^a Center for Language and Brain   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: photometry; Quasars: general; Quasars: individual (3C 279)

Indexed keywords

EID: 34250659340     PISSN: 00046256     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1086/515574     Document Type: Article

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