Short-term flux and colour variations in low-energy peaked blazars

Monthly Notices of the Royal Astronomical Society

Volumn 404, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 1992-2017

  Rani, Bindu ^a   Gupta, Alok C ^a   Strigachev, A ^b   Bachev, R ^b   Wiita, Paul J ^c,d   Semkov, E ^b   Ovcharov, E ^e   Mihov, B ^b   Boeva, S ^b   Peneva, S ^b   Spassov, B ^b   Tsvetkova, S ^b   Stoyanov, K ^b   Valcheva, A ^e  

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

^b INSTITUTE OF ASTRONOMY   (Bulgaria)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d Department of Health and Exercise Science   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF SOFIA   (Bulgaria)

Author keywords

BL Lacertae objects: general; Galaxies: active; Galaxies: jets; Galaxies: photometry

Indexed keywords

COLOR; GALAXIES;

BL LACERTAE OBJECTS: GENERAL; BLAZARS; COLOR VARIATIONS; FLUX VARIATION; GALAXIES ACTIVE; GALAXIES JETS; GALAXIES: PHOTOMETRY; LOWER ENERGIES; MULTI BAND; SPECTRUM RADIO QUASAR;

PHOTOMETRY;

EID: 77953570685     PISSN: 00358711     EISSN: 13652966     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2966.2010.16419.x     Document Type: Article

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