A search for rapid variability in eight quasars and BL Lacertae objects.
Abstract
Observations of eight quasar- and BL Lacertae-type objects (3C 120, PKS 0735+178, PKS 0736+017, OJ 287, ON 325, W Com=ON 321, 3C 273 and OQ 208) with rapid and large-amplitude light variations are considered. The source of the comparison sequence for each of the eight objects is presented as well as observed blue magnitudes. The BL Lacertae-type object PKS 0735+178 was found to vary significantly in brightness on a time scale of weeks.
- Publication:
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Publications of the Astronomical Society of the Pacific
- Pub Date:
- June 1980
- DOI:
- 10.1086/130659
- Bibcode:
- 1980PASP...92..255S
- Keywords:
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- Astronomical Photometry;
- Bl Lacertae Objects;
- Quasars;
- Variability;
- Light Curve;
- Luminous Intensity;
- Tables (Data);
- Astronomy