The intraday variability in the radio-selected and X-ray-selected BL Lacertae objects

被引:64
作者
Bai, JM [1 ]
Xie, GZ
Li, KH
Zhang, X
Liu, WW
机构
[1] Chinese Acad Sci, Yunnan Astron Observ, Kunming 650011, Peoples R China
[2] Chinese Acad Sci, United Lab Opt Astron, Beijing 100864, Peoples R China
[3] Yunnam Normal Univ, Dept Phys, Kunming, Peoples R China
来源
ASTRONOMY & ASTROPHYSICS SUPPLEMENT SERIES | 1998年 / 132卷 / 01期
关键词
BL Lacertae objects : general; galaxies : photometry;
D O I
10.1051/aas:1998360
中图分类号
P1 [天文学];
学科分类号
0704 ;
摘要
Seven BL Lac objects have been photometrically observed in an effort to study the difference of optical intraday variability between the radio-selected BL Lac objects (RBLs) and X-ray-selected BL Lac objects (XBLs). The objects we observed are selected arbitrarily. They are four RBLs; PKS 0735+178. PKS 0754+101, OJ 287 and BL Lac, and three XBLs, H 0323+022, H 0548-322 and H 2154-304. During the observation all of them exhibited microvariation. and H 0323+022 and H 0548-322 sometimes showed brightness oscillation. PKS 0735+178 and BL Lac were in their faint states and not very active. It seems that RBLs do not show microvariability more frequently than XBLs.
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