Nearly periodic fluctuations in the long-term x-ray light curves of the blazars AO 0235+164 and 1ES 2321+419

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 696, Issue 2, 2009, Pages 2170-2178

  Rani, Bindu ^a   Wiita, Paul J ^b,c   Gupta, Alok C ^a  

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

^b INSTITUTE FOR ADVANCED STUDY   (United States)

^c GEORGIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

BL Lacertae objects: general; galaxies: active

Indexed keywords

EID: 84863393666     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/696/2/2170     Document Type: Article

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