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Optical Microvariability in Radio Quiet Quasars

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  19 July 2016

Paul J. Wiita ,
Gopal Krishna  and
Ram Sagar
Paul J. Wiita
Affiliation:
Department of Physics & Astronomy, Georgia State University, Atlanta, Georgia 30303, USA
Gopal Krishna
Affiliation:
National Centre for Radio Astrophysics, TIFR, Post Bag 3, Pune 411007, India
Ram Sagar
Affiliation:
Indian Institute of Astrophysics, Bangalore 560034, India

Abstract

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We have observed 11 radio quiet QSOs (RQQSOs) to see if they exhibit intranight variability in the optical. The detection of such microvariability would support models in which fluctuations on accretion disks are dominant, while if it is never present, models based on relativistic jets would be favored. Although several of these RQQSOs show hints of microvariability, we cannot claim to have discovered this phenomenon in this class of objects. Several of the comparison stars have clearly shown rapid variability.

Type
Poster Contributions: Variability
Information
Symposium - International Astronomical Union , Volume 159: Multi-Wavelength Continuum Emission of AGN , 1994 , pp. 414
Copyright
Copyright © Kluwer 1994 

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