Characterizing the optical variability of bright blazars: Variability-based selection of fermi active galactic nuclei

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 760, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Ruan, John J ^a   Anderson, Scott F ^a   MacLeod, Chelsea L ^a,b   Becker, Andrew C ^a   Burnett, T H ^a   Davenport, James R A ^a   Ivezić, Željko ^a   Kochanek, Christopher S ^c   Plotkin, Richard M ^d,e   Sesar, Branimir ^f   Scott Stuart, J ^g  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^b UNITED STATES NAVAL ACADEMY   (United States)

^c OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^d UNIVERSITY OF MICHIGAN   (United States)

^e UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g MASSACHUSETTS INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

BL Lacertae objects: general; galaxies: active; quasars: general

Indexed keywords

EID: 84868539520     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/760/1/51     Document Type: Article

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