Spectral variability of quasars from multi-epoch photometric data in the Sloan Digital Sky Survey Stripe 82

Astronomy and Astrophysics

Volumn 525, Issue 2, 2010, Pages

  Meusinger, H ^a   Hinze, A ^b   De Hoon, A ^c  

^a THÜRINGER LANDESSTERNWARTE TAUTENBURG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BERN   (Switzerland)

^c ASTROPHYSIKALISCHES INSTITUT POTSDAM   (Germany)

Author keywords

galaxies: active; quasars: emission lines; quasars: general

Indexed keywords

COMBINED EFFECT; CONTINUUM FLUX; CORRESPONDING COLOURS; DILUTION EFFECT; EMISSION LINES; FIRST-ORDER; GALAXIES : ACTIVE; LIGHTCURVES; LINE EMISSIONS; MONTE CARLO SIMULATION; MOTION CURVE; NEW APPROACHES; PASS BANDS; PHOTOMETRIC DATA; POWER-LAW; QUANTITATIVE INTERPRETATION; QUASAR SPECTRA; QUASARS: EMISSION LINE; QUASARS: GENERAL; RED SHIFT; SLOAN DIGITAL SKY SURVEY; SPECTRAL VARIABILITY; STRUCTURE FUNCTIONS; TIME LAG; TIME-SCALES;

COMPUTER SIMULATION; GALAXIES; LIBRARIES; LUMINANCE; MONTE CARLO METHODS; PHOTOMETRY; SURVEYS;

ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE EMISSION;

EID: 78650128417     PISSN: 00046361     EISSN: 14320746     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1051/0004-6361/201015520     Document Type: Review

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