Is quasar optical variability a damped random walk?

Astrophysical Journal

Volumn 765, Issue 2, 2013, Pages

  Zu, Ying ^a   Kochanek, C S ^a   Kozłowski, Szymon ^b   Udalski, Andrzej ^b  

^a OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WARSAW   (Poland)

Author keywords

galaxies: active; galaxies: statistics; methods: data analysis; methods: numerical; methods: statistical

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EID: 84874470601     PISSN: 0004637X     EISSN: 15384357     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1088/0004-637X/765/2/106     Document Type: Article

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