Highly variable objects in the palomar-quest survey: A blazar search using optical variability

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 705, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 46-53

  Bauer, Anne ^a,b   Baltay, Charles ^a   Coppi, Paolo ^a   Donalek, Ciro ^c   Drake, Andrew ^c   Djorgovski, S G ^c   Ellman, Nancy ^a   Glikman, Eilat ^a,c   Graham, Matthew ^c   Jerke, Jonathan ^a   Mahabal, Ashish ^c   Rabinowitz, David ^a   Scalzo, Richard ^a   Williams, Roy ^c  

^a Yale University   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MUNICH   (Germany)

^c CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

BL Lacertae objects: general; Catalogs; Galaxies: active; Quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 70549098822     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/705/1/46     Document Type: Article

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