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Optical observations of BL Lacertae in 2004–2005

Author(s) -

Youhong Zhang,

Fuyan Bian,

Jun-Zheng Li,

Ren-Cheng Shang

Publication year - 2013

Publication title -

monthly notices of the royal astronomical society

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 2.058

H-Index - 383

eISSN - 1365-8711

pISSN - 0035-8711

DOI - 10.1093/mnras/stt534

Subject(s) - physics , bl lac object , astrophysics , brightness , blazar , light curve , flare , astronomy , amplitude , jet (fluid) , gamma ray , optics , thermodynamics

We present optical observations of BL Lacertae (BL Lac) in the standard BVRI bands with the 80 cm Tsinghua Centre for Astrophysics–National Astronomical Observatories of China telescope. In 2004, BL Lac was monitored for 25 nights, between September and November, to study its long-term optical variability behaviour. The source initially faded by ΔR ∼ 1 mag in ∼30 d and then brightened by ΔR ∼ 0.8 ...

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