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Extreme Examples of Intraday Variability - Search for Diffractive Scintillation in the Smallest Quasar, PKS 0405-385

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  13 May 2016

Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer ,
Jean-Pierre Macquart  and
David L. Jauncey
Lucyna Kedziora-Chudczer
Affiliation:
Anglo-Australian Observatory, Epping, NSW 1710, Australia Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, Australia
Jean-Pierre Macquart
Affiliation:
RCfTA, School of Physics, University of Sydney, NSW 2006, Australia
David L. Jauncey
Affiliation:
Australia Telescope National Facility, CSIRO, Australia

Abstract

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We discuss conditions which have to be satisfied for observable signatures of diffractive scintillation in intraday variable (IDV) sources. We apply this discussion to the quasar PKS 0405-385 which had a scintillating component with angular size of 5 μas (Kedziora-Chudczer et al. 1997).

Type
The Inner Regions of Galaxies
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 205: Galaxies and their Constituents at the Highest Angular Resolutions , 2001 , pp. 90 - 91
Copyright
Copyright © Astronomical Society of the Pacific 2001 

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