Characterizing the optical variability of bright blazars: Variability-based selection of fermi active galactic nuclei

Characterizing the optical variability of bright blazars: Variability-based selection of fermi active galactic nuclei

We investigate the use of optical photometric variability to select and identify blazars in large-scale time-domain surveys, in part to aid in the identification of blazar counterparts to the ~ 30% of ?-ray sources in the Fermi 2FGL catalog still lacking reliable associations. Using data from the op...

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Main Authors: Ruan, J., Anderson, S., MacLeod, C., Becker, A., Burnett, T., Davenport, J., Ivezic, Z., Kochanek, C., Plotkin, Richard, Sesar, B., Scott Stuart, J.
Format: Journal Article
Published: Institute of Physics Publishing 2012
Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/52231

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