Simultaneous multi-wavelength observations of the TeV blazar Mrk 421 during February-March, 2003: X-ray and NIR correlated variability

Chinese Journal of Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 8, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 395-403

  Gupta, Alok C ^a,c   Acharya, B S ^b   Bose, Debanjan ^b   Chitnis, Varsha R ^b   Fan, Jun Hui ^a  

^a GUANGZHOU UNIVERSITY   (China)

^b TATA INSTITUTE OF FUNDAMENTAL RESEARCH   (India)

^c ARYABHATTA RESEARCH INSTITUTE OF OBSERVATIONAL SCIENCES ARIES   (India)

Author keywords

Galaxies: active; Galaxies: blazars: general; Galaxies: blazars: individual: Mrk 421

Indexed keywords

EID: 52949101306     PISSN: 10099271     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/1009-9271/8/4/03     Document Type: Article

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